100 Word Wednesday

Wind.  I have developed a love/hate relationship with wind of late.  Since I run in the park near my house and spring is in full bloom following a wet winter, we now have full ponds and everything is growing in the park.  This includes happy swarms of tiny flying insects!  (I’m getting to the wind.)  [...]

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100 Word Wednesday

My pleasure!  The little sweeties who get hired to work at Chick-fil-A have been trained to be polite.  Among the polite things they say is “my pleasure” every time you, the customer, say “thank you.”  It has almost reached the point of being a game for me.  I know it’s wrong, but I like to [...]

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100 Word Wednesday

Collage and assemblage.  I’ve been collecting bits of this and that, clippings from magazines, all kinds of things , for years.  The thing is, I’m not a scrap-booker—and no offense to those of you who are—it’s just not my thing.  But I kept thinking I’d eventually start doing some collage work with all these things.  [...]

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100 Word Wednesday

My shadow.  Rosemary my white-footed Siamese/Balinese mix kitty is my shadow every morning when I get up to do my morning routine before work.  This includes a little exercise, writing, reading, breakfast – most importantly coffee which must include half-and-half!  Rosemary has grown to love half-and-half too and she always shares a little taste in [...]

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100 Word Wednesday

Neighborhood skunk!  We’ve smelled skunks around our neighborhood many times.  And we’ve even seen one in the park while walking at dusk.  But lately, it seems one must have taken up residence nearby. For several nights in a row, we’ve smelled one that must have sprayed very close by.  The seeping of the odor into [...]

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100 Word Wednesday

High school registration.  Last Saturday Miss M registered for her first year in high school – she’ll be a freshman in the fall!  I find myself excited for her and a little nervous of course.  At the same time I’m just stunned that we’re here already.  I suppose every parent goes through the shock of [...]

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100 Word Wednesday

Time.  I think it’s funny how we’re always talking about how there isn’t enough time for this or that.  I’ve come to realize that there is time for everything that you make time for.  You just have to make space in your life and your schedule for those things you want to do and those [...]

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100 Word Wednesday

I have finally settled into being a mom.  How, did it take 13 years?  I don’t know, but it did and here I am really happy to be a mom, relishing the time that Miss M and I spend together.  We have fun, we have good conversations, I get lots of hugs and those moments [...]

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100 Word Wednesday

Valentine’s Day! Since Valentine’s fell on Sunday this year, JJ and I decided to celebrate on Saturday.  Actually, it wasn’t even so much that we discussed it, there was just an unspoken agreement and that’s how things happened.  I like that we have that kind of synchronicity.  We got facials together at a nearby spa [...]

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100 Word Wednesday

Half marathon.  So, I started running a few months ago and my girlfriend Sara knows this.  She has run/walked a couple half marathons and she recently sent me an invitation to participate in one in March.  So here I am, putting my intention out there to do it!  Now that I have a real goal [...]

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