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Ticket to Ride
Celebrate the 10th anniversary of my ticket to ride! I'm posting today to honor the date that Sandy Schultz phoned me with the news that my raffle ticket had won the Soroptimist International float ride in the 2003 Rose Parade. I wrote a short story about it all and...
Light another candle
"Thank u to u and ur husband for one of the nicest dinners out I have ever enjoyed by myself!" Her wig was disheveled and obvious to a chemo survivor like me, and she was scrunched tight into the corner table, dining with an i-Phone facebook page. The glow was...
INTEGRITY
Money for nothing
It’s over. We won; we lost; democracy worked; whatever. The robo-ringing of the phones has halted. Breathe in the silence. We have a clean slate from TV ads: negative or positive, they were all highly polished - and highly priced I’ve heard. What a non-profitable way...
Bubbles of Happiness
Fifty Shades of Gray
I've often said that I could never live where gray shrouds daylight. When it's murky in southern California, my brain feels as foggy and bleary as the sky. I feel certain that I have a shade of SAAD. I am a yoga devotee. I began to go to the Triad Studio through a...
Write when you feel black or when you feel blue and then you feel all better
I ardently loved being a speech-language pathologist (SLP). I had my own private practice for 30 years, an effective domain of kindness, forgiveness, and tremendous effort that yielded human progress. A lot of progress for men, women, and children – even for myself....
Surfer Dudes
The grubby doorway yawns wide and its frame is mildly akimbo. It’s entry to a sallow stone building that is blocks from prime oceanside real estate, a place where squandered dreams live on. I am a sucker for an underdog, eager to savor and save what I can: “Let’s see...
Larry
His eyes disappear when he smiles and he smiles a lot. He is smart and crafty and as handsome as a god. And, a god he is in my world. My world is deep and wide because I am a gregarious soul. I sweep, I wisp, I waltz among people, sharing my light as required from...
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