Published August 10th, 2016 by

Have you ever sat down to list your failings, your weaknesses, your hard times? Why bother? We do that in our heads every day. I should have; why didn’t I?…

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Published August 9th, 2016 by

Did I just read that? Yep, the TV screen closed caption read “hot and human” while the announcer said “hot and humid”! Quite a difference, don’t you think? But is…

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Published August 8th, 2016 by

Author Cecil Murphy recommends that we crawl out of isolation into writing groups, online chats, and even meet real live folks for lunch. These must not be writers, but people…

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Published August 7th, 2016 by

Question: How many strands of spaghetti there are in a spaghetti squash? I don’t know the answer, but my author friend Patricia Day came close to finding out. She stuffed…

Read More Blowing Your Top

Published August 6th, 2016 by

I manage my time better than most people I know, but somehow I missed a deadline. Yes, I am still harping on that because I am not that kind of…

Read More Let Down

Published August 5th, 2016 by

There’s an opportune time to do things, a right time for everything on the earth: A right time for birth and another for death, A right time to plant and…

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Published August 4th, 2016 by

Call me what you will. I am a Johnny/Brenda Come Lately who missed the boat. I had a deadline and I missed it. I forgot to keep up my end…

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Published August 3rd, 2016 by

When I stopped driving at the doctor’s request, family and friends drove me places as needed. Some even relayed. For instance, it took three different cars and three different drivers…

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Published August 2nd, 2016 by

The doctor asked me not to drive until after some tests were completed. The tests were expected to take anywhere from two weeks to two months. It wasn’t the doctor’s…

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Published August 1st, 2016 by

What if your life changes suddenly? What if something happens that you can’t control? What if there is a sudden death, an accident, a financial crisis? What will you do?…

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