Lisa and I will be biking again today — for only the second time this year, sadly! We biked around Waughop Lake earlier this year, but haven’t been able to do it on her one day off a week, so I have been walking instead. I’ve run up some impressive walking numbers as […]
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Helen Schofield and Deborah Davies, Two Kiwi Kindred Spirits playing pirates during a Tall Ship Festival in New Zealand My kiwi friend Helen Schofield will be here soon. I’m counting the days and hours! We’re planning to have an absolute blast. On our bucket list of must see’s are the Pike Place
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What it is and why it’s observed: https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/international-tiger-day-2022-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-observed/ar-AA105IcI Some of my best friends have been tigers … … and I wrote about most of them in LET NO DAY DAWN THAT THE ANIMALS CANNOT SHARE.
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Today we’re expected to break the record for the consecutive number of days above 90 degrees, and it ain’t over yet! Tomorrow it’s supposed to reach 93 and Sunday 91. So, I’m on critter patrol all day long. I have a misting system set up for my outdoor critters (livestock) and box fans blowing
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More than four years ago — several months before she left a literal career lifetime in the banking industry — I taped a picture and eight words onto my sister’s kitchen door. At the time I taped it there, she was utterly miserable. Her job drove her up the wall (not the job, but
I’m heat-proofing the outdoor critters as much as possible for the next several days. I have a misting system and box fans set up in the goat shed and hen house and ice in their water troughs to make sure everyone stays cool during the heat of the day — from noon until at least
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I’m coloring my hair this morning, so I have 20 minutes of waiting time to share with you. So here we go! MEMORIAL SERVICE MISHAP I inadvertently gave my older sister a scare last night when I sent her a link to my updated memorial service Powerpoint and a copy of my obituary. She
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Recently, my days have been filled with “busy as a beaver” writing assignments. That’s good, because for the past few weeks, there hasn’t been much owing to my client’s focus on other matters. But last week I got a stack of topics to write about, so that’s what I’ve been doing. I’m all
In addition to my podcast EVER NEW with Hannah McCrane, I have an additional podcast gig this weekend. The topic: the overturning of Roe V Wade (the right to access safe, legal abortions in one’s home state when necessary or desired without outside interference) by the Supreme Court. Should be interesting! The audience
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I’m having a tough time staying outside Depressionville these past several weeks. News on the political front brings me down almost hourly. The antidote, of course, is to stop paying attention to the myriad ways in which this nation is descending into a dystopian nightmare. But if we all did (or continue to do)
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