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Rubber Bands
We do not have the world's largest ball of rubber bands in our home. What's pictured is one in a museum. What we do have in our home's kitchen window is a rubber band collection on a scruffy, water-spotted birch candlestick that my father turned on his lathe. It...
Have and Have Not
A few weeks ago I discovered an unwanted nuance of "have" and "have not": medical insurance benefits. While I have benefits and can instantly make a doctor appointment to seek assurance for any concern, my Sista Suzi can not. Well, could not until recently when she...
The Rainbow Passage
"When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently...
Breakfast at Tiffanys
My husband is the best man alive. I love him completely, thoroughly, and true. We've been together since February 16, 1974. He loves me and is very giving, but he is not a hearts, flowers, chocolate, and jewelry guy. It matters not, for I can buy these myself. I am a...
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Heart-shaped eats
My husband and I met and married when a popular TV ad showed a newlywed couple readying for bed, the husband taking Alka Seltzer in the foreground while the wife reclined in delusional triumph in the background for having prepared a heart-shaped meatloaf for...
Just Walk Away
Unkindness hurts and does not often fade without shards in the heart. Boundaries are important - critical. We must never allow others to abuse us when we are open and vulnerable. We must not continually walk back into battles that will never go away. We must...
House Guests # 2
We had an awesome 1 1/2 weeks with a BFF who came to stay with us recently from Michigan. She observes my #1 House Guest Rule: do not hurt your host, my husband. She wouldn't, for she was married to his BFF from high school. She shares Midwestern values of hospitality...
Fame
The Beatles came to America for my birthday, many years ago. They didn't know it, but I did. That is the way of Fame - no thought for my existence. George Harrison famously asserted that the Beatles didn't want to be famous - they wanted to be successful. That is an...
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