“Matlock has a gift for telling what she calls ‘the secret lives of ordinary people.’”
~Detroit Free Press
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Whoo-hoo! Monday!
One day I woke up and realized I loved Mondays. I think it may be because I usually do next to nothing on Sundays, save watch old TCM comedies and take long naps, go to bed early, and wake up being happy to get back into a routine on Monday. I also take Mondays pretty…
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Winter Blooms for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day
My Christmas Cacti gave me the gifts of blooms at Christmas, and they are still going at it! This ‘Big Mama’ was given to me some thirty-three years ago by our own Big Mama’s mother, Granny. Yes, I have somehow–surely by Divine intervention at times–kept this plant alive all those years. Me, who tends to…
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Choice of Attention
I always do a great deal of thinking when I’m driving, don’t you? Although this fact does bring up the question of lack of driving attention. We’ll skip over that for now. As I drove today, I suddenly noticed that I had been remembering incidents through the years, my thoughts being in the vein of,…
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Remember the Good Days
I have just enjoyed three good writing days in a row! I sat down easily, and with anticipation. During the two weeks I’d been away on Christmas holiday, my mind had been busy. Maybe it was that tea was just right, or that I’d had a good night’s sleep. Whatever, my focus was sharp, I…
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Good Intentions and High Hopes
Intention The word Intention is my guiding word for the year. It is my hope to develop a stronger purpose for my writing, and for my life. With this idea, for days I’ve heard in the back of my mind Frank Sinatra singing the Sammy Cahn song, High Hopes. I can hear ‘Ol Blue Eyes’s…
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Questions to Carry Me Forward in 2011
Do any of you feel like I do–My gosh, 2011 already!? With a cup of tea, my blue ink pen and my Hopes and Dreams journal, I settle into my chair and think about questions to carry me forward into the new year. I have boiled them down to three. I like the number three–any…
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~ Contra Costa Times
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