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Who has time?

How often do you walk or run? If you are like most people, you have a 40 hour a week job, maybe two jobs, a home life, responsibility to family and friends, maybe volunteer commitments and very little time for yourself. How do you balance YOU, with everything else you, have to do? This is a daily struggle for most adults and the reason why many of us fail to exercise or practice any kind of…

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Sunday Bloody Sunday

You know that saying “It will get worse before it gets better” ? They must have been talking about Menopause. When I turned 40 I could not wait for Menopause. I have been bleeding on the regular for 28 years, I had had my tubes tied for 7 years and as far as I was  concerned I had no use for my period any longer. At that point in my life the only purpose it served was to ruin my sex life once a…

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Dream Dining

If you could host a dinner and anyone you invite was sure to come, who would you invite? Now this is one of the most interesting questions posted here in a while. The possibilities are endless! Are we talking alive or dead? Am I having a one-on-one meal or a dinner party? A dinner party could get messy cause my choices come from very differing walks of life.   I am going to go all in and just…

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One Moment in Time

Describe your most memorable vacation. How do you choose one moment from one vacation. I am nearly 50 years old; I have had at least double that number of vacations and 100 times that many memorable moments. How do I pick between memories of childhood vacations in Florida that are precious because my grandparents are gone? Or from our yearly family vacations in Chincoteague because the hold…

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Ahhhh, Romance

What’s your definition of romantic? Everyone loves romance. Fancy dinners, flowers, expensive gifts and rose petals in your bubble bath for two. The truth is that kind of romance is just not sustainable. It is short lived in the honeymoon phase of every relationship and when it is disappears, sometimes so follows the relationship. Too many people are in love with being in love and when reality…

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Uncertainty

What are you most worried about for the future? Today’s prompt seems vague to me; are we asking this relative to us personally, out city, our country, the world? I am guessing they are looking at things at a global scale considering the uncertainty we face in the current climate. As I have stated in the past I do not like to write about politics or religion so I will say only this. I am indeed…

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The Power of Love Pt2- Til Death Do Us Part

I am sad to say that the will was strong, but the body was not. After three surgeries, countless trips back and forth from the hospital and rehab, arguments with nursing staff and weeks of fighting an infection that should have never happened, my father-in-law lost the battle. I think he knew all along. He mentioned many times during this journey that it was time to go home and be with his mother…

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Update

What are your daily habits? To my few but faithful readers. I apologize for my recent absence; I have not abandoned ship. What I have is a simple case of life getting in the way. As you know from my previous entries. I started a new career, which by the way I love, but the new schedule has taken some getting used to. I have less time during the day to write. While at first, I thought it might…

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One step closer…

What notable things happened today? It just so happens that something note worthy did happen to me today. I just signed a contract and placed a deposit for an artist space in the largest Holiday Arts and Crafts show in my area. This event is huge!!! 600 artists, over 30,000 shoppers over 5 days and a major opportunity for me. I have always believed in taking risks, calculated risks, but risks…

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Let there be love

What is the legacy you want to leave behind? My Favorite line from Hamilton: Legacy is planting seeds in a garden you never get to see I am not foolish enough to think that I my name will be remembered for years to come. I imagine that 50 years after my death, my descendants will cease to remember who I was. I will be no more than a face in a picture that some one is struggling to recall. My…

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Mathematics

What was the last live performance you saw? I really would love to say Elton John but sadly that never came to pass. I had tickets to see him in Hershey for 4/20/20 and then Covid hit in March 2020 and no one went to concerts for a year. It was rescheduled in 2022 and I had it all planned, my daughter was flying in from California to go with me and I was finally going. Elton John is my favorite…

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Queen for a day

What’s a job you would like to do for just one day? Any job but only one day? Let me see…. TV Star, no…Rock Star, no…Ben and Jerry’s taste tester? Tempting but no. Tik Tok star or Youtube Influencer? Definitely, no. The answer may actually surprise people because it has to do with my guilty pleasure, professional wrestling. I grew up watching wrestling with my Dad and my little brother. We all…

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Sleep Like a Lion

In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight – The Tokens Oh to be a lion and sleep 18-20 hours a day. Laying around snoozing where you like, waking only to pee, eat and procreate. Of course lions do not have mortgages to pay or other lions to answer to. And thus another dream comes crashing back to reality.  Humans do not need 18 hours of sleep a day, according to studies we are…

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Every Which Way but Loose

What gives you direction in life? Do I have a direction? I certainly do not feel like I do. I suppose that at this stage of my life direction is no longer important.  When we are young, we are expected to have a direction, graduate high school, do ABC to obtain XYZ dream job, get married, buy a home, have a family.  Then what? Where do you go from there? For me I only got through A and B so XYZ…

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Moments

Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often? I first saw this quote on a picture frame, it immediately spoke to my heart, and I bought it without a second thought. I walked out of the store knowing exactly which picture I would place in it, and I could not wait to hang it in my apartment. The picture was one of myself and my three children staring out at the ocean. That picture…

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Seasons

What is your favorite holiday? Why is it your favorite? I do not just have a favorite holiday, I have a favorite end of year celebration. From September 1st to New Year’s I am celebrating all my favorite things in the world. As soon as the kiddies run back to school and the chills start floating in the night air, my soul awakens. There is nothing I do not love about this entire end of year…

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Ring of Fire

I fell into a burning ring of fire, I went down, down, down, and the flames went higher And it burns, burns, burns, The ring of fire, the ring of fire. ( Credit to Johnny Cash) I opened Facebook one morning and the first thing I saw was a post from a High School friend that simply said “ Night Sweats Suck!” and it reminded me of what I keep saying here….. I am not alone.  Along with all of my…