Full Stop or Pay The Price

I got a traffic ticket this week. Ugh!! It’s my first one in over 20 years and it stings. Apparently I came to a rolling stop about two hundred yards from my home on a street I drive everyday. The nice officer who pulled me over told me I needed to come to a stop for...

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My Footprint

August always marks another trip around the sun for me.  It is another year, a new age to embrace and another chance to make a footprint on this world. While I’ve added a few extra pounds this year (dammit!) and my boob size is 36 LONG, I continue to embrace myself...

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Dear 50…

Dear 50, You got me.  I ducked and dodged you all year and you finally caught me. Time is undefeated.  Everyone says you’re just a number but we both know, it’s a big number.  When I was a perky little twenty-something, I thought of 50-year-olds as over the hill,...

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The Forgotten Question

As someone who spent her youth moving from base to base, living in different countries or states, attending six different schools before seventh grade, not a lot in my life was constant. Change was frequent, and a new adventure was around every corner, especially...

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A Mom’s Magic at Christmas

“The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads” … Every year on Christmas Eve, I read “Twas the Night Before Christmas” to my kids. We all sit on one bed--usually a dog pile or WWE match occurs during the...

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The Best Christmas Present I Hated

I remember it all too well, Christmas of 1977. My family was stationed in Plattsburgh, New York which during winter feels like the North Pole.  Being raised in a military family, “extra money” was nonexistent. My parents were on a very tight budget but somehow,...

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