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Category: Life

It’s MY Cancer and I’ll Cry If I Want To

Not that I’m crying. I haven’t yet and I may never. Or I might. It depends on what happens and how I feel about it. Or just plain how I feel. The point is, this is my cancer experience and I should be allowed to get through it the way…

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Family, Life, Writing cancer

Looking for Lizard Poop (and Coral Smith’s breasts)

What’s the affirmation for today? I look for more ways to appreciate. There’s a lizard in the house. At least I hope it’s a lizard. It could be something worse, like a snake or a frog. But something that shouldn’t be in the house is in the house. How do…

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Cats, Humor, Life, Wildlife, Writing cats, Coral Smith's breasts, lizard poop, semantics

Baby birds chirp, hummingbirds slurp, and I write

What’s the affirmation for today? First I seek JOY, and all else follows. Once upon a time, my desk window overlooked my garden. Ah, how I loved to sit there and write. The window faced east, but the rising sun in the morning was blocked by a row of trellises…

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Florida, Life, Nature, Wildlife, Writing coral honeysuckle, joy, nature, trellis, wildlife, writing

Am I negative or are you just a jerk?

I have all of my Great Aunt Louise’s diaries, which she began back in 1926 when she was just 27 years old, and I have found myself so touched by her writing that it’s difficult to speak of it or even to read the passages aloud to myself without my…

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Family, Life, Writing family, life choices, negativity, writing
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  • Stephie Smith never dreamed of becoming a writer until a series of her humorous essays about family were published behind her back. Unlike most things done behind her back, this one she actually liked.

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