“Matlock has a gift for telling what she calls ‘the secret lives of ordinary people.’”
~Detroit Free Press
Latest Posts
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It’s A Good Day
Do you have something to do today that you don’t want to do? Maybe a bunch of small things common as flies. Maybe you have one big thing that is really crucial and desperate. If it is one of those desperate things, I’m sorry, and immediately I am humbled, because the thing I don’t want to…
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Spring Weeding 2012
It is spring, and once more my thoughts turn to the fancy of weeding. I’ve some new thoughts on the subject, as well as reposting excerpts from my first Weeding post in 2010. Good reminders. The great Dame Agatha Christie maintained, “The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.” Let me…
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Starting Monday Out Right with the Now Two-Legged Midget Chick and Her Big Sisters
We enjoy all the chicks, but little Princess Puny is a special delight. She reminds me of the power of just keeping on, and then laying down when you’re tired, getting up again and pressing on, doing what you can do, being a blessing as just who and what you are. Commitment to our unique…
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Sovereign Remedy
Someone said something unexpected. The attitude was surprising–rejecting. Confounding. Hurtful. It was like I’d been expecting a warm cookie and been given a worm. I did the best I could in the moment to sort of pass off the worm and not flinch. Things smoothed over. Eventually there was a hug. But I was left…
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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day– Oh, My!
Darlings, it is beautiful here in our little paradise! Enjoy Garden Bloggers Bloom Day from May Dreams Gardens. Thanks to Carol!
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Starting Out Haywire-flooey Monday
I don’t know if you need this, but I sure do. My normal lovely Monday has somehow gone all haywire-flooey. Don’t you just love that combination of words: haywire-flooey? Somehow saying it lightens me. I’ve felt run over flat by so many things to do piling up on me– and the writing I had planned…
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~ Contra Costa Times
Curtiss Ann Matlock 