Monthly Archives: April 2015

To Whom It May Concern

My dear, sweet friends, As you know, I have been involved in a writing project.  Each day the participants in the writing project are given a topic and a prompt to use as inspiration.  On day fourteen we were to write … Continue reading

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A note found along a path

What a glorious day.  The sun is high in the sky, there is a gentle breeze blowing and I decided it just the perfect day to take a walk through our community Conservation Trail. As I often do, I was … Continue reading

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Happiness is spaghetti with red sauce

I have not always been a foodie.  Quite the contrary, in my tender years I was a very picky eater.  I would only eat cold cereal for breakfast, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch and, potatoes of any kind, … Continue reading

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A loss of faith in corporate integrity

When I first started to write this I was thinking about telling a sad story of the loss of our family dog, Sam.  Then, I thought, no, I would write a happy story about the time when our cat, Shadow … Continue reading

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Mixed memories of a place I lived long ago

I spent my early childhood in a state that, at the time, was called the melting pot of the world, New York; specifically I lived in Brooklyn, New York. At a very young age I lived in a Catholic children’s home.  … Continue reading

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Songs that have touched my life

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. ~Paul Simon From as far back as I can remember I have loved a wide range of music.  I remember as a … Continue reading

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My heart calls me back to Virginia

For the better part of 40 years I lived in Northern Virginia until retirement brought me to Florida. I love my new home and all the friends I have made over the years in Florida but my heart still misses … Continue reading

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A foodie without a refrigerator

Where do I begin?  It is now our eighth week trying to get our refrigerator fixed or replaced to no avail. The saga of our broken refrigerator started in January when we noticed that the ice maker in the freezer … Continue reading

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