Every time I think I’m in serious danger of becoming a princess because of all my self-indulgences, I am snapped out of it unexpectedly, usually by my husband. He has a knack of knowing not only what will please me, but how happy it will make me to get what most would consider, at best, […]

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A cautionary tale for those of us who like to kill two birds with one stone. I think the term of choice now is multi-task. If you are one of those taskers, like I am, then you’ll want to know what can befall you if you’re not vigilant.I was risking life, limb, and driver’s […]

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Did you ever notice that from the time we were little kids, we’ve been counting - something or other. The days until summer vacation. The hours til you’ll see him, and then, how long are his parents going to stay? You’re how many days late? Counting push-ups at the gym, calories, carbs, the money in your wallet, the time […]

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The guy who lived directly across the way from me on the 15th floor of the building across the street became a kind of - I wouldn’t say friend - more like an acquaintance - although we’d never met, never spoken, never even acknowledged each other’s presence. Like me, he looked to be in his early […]

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It’s not like I don’t have a respectable list of things I should be doing, or could be doing, for that matter, instead of spending the better part of a perfectly lovely spring day languishing at the computer. But the fact is, that’s what has occurred. They (the Royal they) counsel that hanging around the wrong […]

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After spending last Friday at a Ballroom Dance competition, cheering for my friends, both amateur and professional, I did, as always, have a brief moment of regret that I hadn’t entered the competition myself. Oh, I have no need or desire to dance publicly, but, oh! those magnificent gowns - sequined, feathered, flowing, and the […]

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The phone rang a moment ago, and just like that! my past collided with my present - but in a good way. It was my (almost) 10 year old granddaughter who has the warmest , most infectious giggle in her voice,  that just hearing it,  put me in  a very “good place,” when only moments before, I’d […]

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