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Deliveries, Orders and Other Hectic Stuff
It’s Tuesday afternoon, and I am waiting for a freezer to arrive next door, which means I am trying to use the “track your delivery” feature that Lowes offers to determine when we need to run over there and let… Continue reading
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Up in the Air
Friends, I really hope you don’t have to fly into or out of Newark International Airport any time in the immediate future. For those who don’t live around here, or haven’t seen any of the news stories, conditions are less… Continue reading
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The Birds and the Bees
As the weather began warming up here, we wondered if the robins would return this year. We never took down last year’s nest in case they had plans to reuse it. This nest was built just beneath our deck in… Continue reading
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Spying on the Neighbors
Some time toward the end of last summer Ron and I were watching some wildlife activity in the backyard, and he mentioned that if we had a trail cam set up back there we might capture all sorts of interesting… Continue reading
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The Plants Are Adjusting
I do not do a lot of gardening. We have a grand total of four outdoor planters that I tend to during the warmer months of the year–two in a shady spot and two in a sunny spot. There’s also… Continue reading
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Moving From Substack to WordPress, My Experience
As I sit here looking out at the backyard, the grass is looking very green thanks to this month getting off to a pretty soggy start. Can those May flowers be far behind? Weather-wise the weekend was somewhat dreary, but… Continue reading
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That Time I Made My Mom Drive Me to Every* Mall in North Jersey to Find a Pair of Shoes
(*This is maybe a slight exaggeration, but seriously only slight.) A couple of weeks ago I wrote about being a nearly life-long glasses-wearer. In it I happened to mention the ginormous glasses I had during my middle school years that… Continue reading
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Robber Barons
My Bluesky feed is all authors listing how many of their books were stolen to feed Mark Zuckerberg’s AI monster. Five of my books were stolen says one author, 7 of mine says another. All my books were stolen. All… Continue reading
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How I See Things
As this email hits your inbox, I am likely sitting in an eye doctor’s waiting room. There’s nothing wrong, just a regular checkup. As someone who has worn glasses nearly her whole life, I’ve spent a lot of hours in… Continue reading
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Here Comes the Sun
We’ve been enjoying some spring weather here, and so naturally I thought of this snowy picture I took many moons ago of my cat Alci (short for Alcibiades) when the two of us lived in a house in the Poconos.… Continue reading
Creativity and Contentment 