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Salute to Veterans

Salute to Veterans

Re-posted from a couple  years back… Honoring friends and  family members on this day.  I hope you are doing the same.  If not family,then friends and strangers who have, and are still, risking their lives for us every day. Col. I.M. Glass, U.S.Air Force – career Pilot, 1948-1974 (Hi, Dad!) Sergeant Deryl T. Wieneke, U.S.Air Force […]

What's Next?

What’s Next?

 Yesterday I read that MetLife is firing Snoopy. No! Say it ain’t so! A few months ago, The Most Interesting Man in the World lost his job to a younger, scruffier, replacement. Sigh. My heart is broken. Can you have a crush on a character from a commercial? Yup. You bet. Oh, and have you […]

Writing Therapy

Writing Therapy

Last week when I was running out the door for our group meeting, I remembered I needed something to write on, so grabbed an old journal off the shelf.  It so happens our meeting was a study on poetry, and as I opened the book to take notes, I discovered some long-lost poems. Hmm…are they […]

Just For Fun Friday 02/20/2015

Just For Fun Friday 02/20/2015

I remember my grandmother. My mother’s mom was 4’11” tall, weighing probably around 250 lbs. with short-gray-blue hair and a great smile.  Cotton dresses,  embroidered aprons. I don’t know if she even knew how to drive a car. I do know she did crochet and embroidery, and I think she even tatted (it’s a hand-made […]