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Online Concerns
An account at an online drugstore that I rarely used – and thankfully didn’t store my financial information – was hacked, and the person tried to purchase something using their name and financials, but...
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Spooky Hallowe’en!
I’m looking out the window at the six inches of snow still on the ground, and it’s hard to get into the Hallowe’en mood. There are still green leaves on many trees around here, and we haven’t really...
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Saturday, Please Don’t Mock Me
No writer’s block will stand in my way. I banish you, wandering thoughts! Stay on task, write the book – oh wait, a cute man just walked by, and I stopped to have a look… No! Back to writing, back I...
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Getting In The Spirit
I bought a Christmas tree today. I didn’t have one last year, and the holidays are usually depressing and far too filled with expectation and anxiety for me to enjoy them. I’d rather keep to myself...
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Political Ruminations
America is such a screwed-up country, and I don’t know who or what is ‘right’, but we’re wildly out of balance. If you read comments under any political statement on the web, what people say about...
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Picture This
The picture I’m viewing shows you and some of your family. I haven’t seen your sisters in a while and I’m shocked by their age. In my mind they’ve never changed. I look again, my sight adjusted, and...
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Stressed
I’ve made some changes that will help my financial situation, even if only moderately. John Steinbeck wrote in America and Americans: “I guess the trouble was that we didn’t have any self-admitted...
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Clothes Shopping
Does anyone else get anxious going into a clothing store? I like clothes, adore cute styles, patterns, textures, and varied material, but I ordered shorts online, and they were too big – a happy...
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Motherhood Ruined Me For Traveling
Going away on a whim used to include making sure I had my toothbrush and a change of clothes, and depending on the time of year, my bathing suit and sunblock. When my child was born, I tried to keep...
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No Mount Washington – Boo, hoo?
My S. O. & I won a 3-day adventure trip through the AMC – Appalachian Mountain Club – from a sweepstakes form we filled out at the Boston Globe Travel Show this past February. We drove up early...
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Birthday Wishes
Tomorrow is my birthday. Birthdays were so exciting when I was younger. Getting older was somehow an achievement, and I suppose it was, depending on how many risks were taken, or accidents met and...
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Seven Things To Do Today To Increase Productivity
Get off social media, or set a timer for fifteen minutes, and when the timer goes off, so does Twitter, Ello, Facebook, et. al. There are apps that will kill my sessions if I lack will power to stop....
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Paradoxical Life
I re-read that many suicidal people, if not most, want to end the pain, not their life. Lately I wake, usually in serious pain, and my first thought is how I can die with the least suffering for those...
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To Write Or Not To Write
I’m supposed to be writing. I know, I am writing, but I’m supposed to be working on one of the project’s that I’ve tried to complete for the last decade or so. Maybe I don’t really want to write....
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Age Is As Age Does
I’m in the thick of aging on the decline side, and part of me is all: ‘oh, you just have to accept it’, and ‘this is where we’re all headed’, and ‘this is the way it’s supposed to be’, to ‘Screw you...
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Uncomfortable
Life is incomprehensible to me. I learn from my mistakes as I make them, but it sucks to live this way. You’d think I would have gotten better at it as time went on, but no. At 16, I traveled to...
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Spaced Out
An astrophysicist on TV proclaims that we need to find a new home before the sun expands, broiling us to a crisp, in about 5 billion years. 5 Billion years. It’s amazing to me that anyone thinks we’ll...
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One For The Ages
Did our ancestors age in the same way we did, or would they have if life expectancy weren’t half of what it is today? They ate much better than we do – when food was plentiful. They had all the super...
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Younger-er
There’s a new series on TV called, Younger, starring Sutton Foster, that is so fun. The concept is of a newly divorced mother trying to re-enter the work force at 40, and being turned down due to her...
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Parental Freak-out
My child is grown and gone. He’s 25, and living large in the city, and yet, I have trouble not interfering. I want to say, ‘please listen to my advice because I never listened to those wiser than me,...
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