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Modem and router were incompatible today. So no internet access. Having Qwest forcibly removed from Arizona, if not the planet. It was Qwest’s idea in the first place to have a separate router, which today their “friendly” service rep told me was the problem… Phone battery was dead – could…

Everything I need to know I learned from Simon and Garfunkel. My 15-year-old daughter loves Simon and Garfunkel. If ever someone taught me right from wrong, flighty from deep, it’s Paul and Art. Mostly, I am a much better person and mother for their words and harmonies…maybe 50 Ways to Leave…

I died about 10 years ago. Not for long, but dead enough. One night, about 3 days after sinus surgery, I began to hemorrhage. About midnight I let go of my efforts to control the bleeding and left my immediate location. As I lay my head down on the floor…

“To dance is to live.” Snoopy I love to dance more than any other person on earth. I danced from the moment I could walk-all the way to Radio City Music Hall. For a moment, I was a Rockette, for all my life, I’ve been a dancer. But, after dancing…

I’m a mother of two teenage girls. Life continually proves to be harder than I expected. Body/Image dysmorphia seems to be an inherited condition – in an attempt to break the chain – the first written words to undo misconceived perceptions. Dear Hannah and Talia, Lately it has become apparent…

Pointing to the touch screen in front of me, the pharmacist said “You have to press next before you start.” Really? Next is before the beginning? This is what we have come to. Not – “Live in the moment.” “Seize the day.” But rather, “ignore the moment, because it has…

How often do we take a moment to play? Not often enough, I think. //www.youtube.com/get_player

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart. Jerome K. Jerome Laundry multiplies like rabbits when left alone. It can debilitatingly overwhelm and mesmerize even…

One-lovely-blog-award Look what I got from http://unmotherlyinsights.com/ by way of: http://sometimesmeaningfulramblings.wordpress.com/ and I am more than happy to “pay it forward.” Here are my recipients in “forward-ness.” My adored DeeDee and http://www.fiddledeedee.net/ Bring the Rain     http://audreycaroline.blogspot.com/    Modern Mommy Moments http://modernmommymoments.blogspot.com/ And right back at my newly adored Debra: http://unmotherlyinsights.com/ …

despite appearances we are all masterpieces in grace everyone despite appearances we are all someone’s child the person tailgating us at 70 mph through the grocery store parking lot calling at 6:30 pm to sell us anything we don’t want in extremes murdering someone else’s child in cold blood or…