Today I’m having lunch with my older sister Laurel. We will walk at Dune Peninsula in Tacoma afterward. It will be another unseasonably warm day, so it’s another good day for a walk. (I walked yesterday, too.) This may be my last chance to see Laurel, ever. Unless she flies down to see me […]
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I’m getting my national news almost exclusively from the MeidasTouch Network these days. It’s fearless, infused with legal experts, indefatigable and incorruptible. They’re sounding mighty macho these days and filled with unbridled hubris but in their case, I’m okay with that. I wish there were more DEMS with their sense of commitment and determination to
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Yesterday I got my first professional haircut post-COVID. (I’ve been cutting my own hair for five years!) I’m thrilled with it. This morning I went to Albertsons to find some Jamie Lee Curtis hair color (silver grey). They didn’t have any! The closest they had was a neon-looking color that I thought was too
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Clamorgate Alert! There is a small kitty door in my kitchen door. Charli and Patches use it when they want to go outside. They know not to go outside at night because there are coyotes, owls and other native predators in our neighborhood, so I haven’t closed it in years. Well, last night
Handwriting my Spanish lessons has made me realize how much I miss writing by hand. I have rarely done so in well over two decades other than shopping lists and the occasional handwritten note in a birthday or thank you card. Writing by hand slows me down, gives me permission to ponder and/or truly
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I’m absolutely loving deep-learning espanol. I bought the perfect book to keep me enthusiastic about it, too. It’s called Madrigal’s Magic Key to Spanish. I have been completely through it already, handwriting 150+ pages of notes all along the way. (I tend to learn best when my fingers are forming letters and sentences. Doing
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There can be great joy in being different, whether the difference is race, gender or neurodiversity. The trick to making sure that you remain inside the joy of your existence is reminding yourself, as often as you need to (sometimes hourly!), that other people’s opinions are just that. If they’re critical, unkind, nasty, or mean-spirited
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If I don’t book a round trip flight from Sea-Tac to Costa Rica (which I don’t want to do), I need to book another ticket for 90 days after I arrive that I can show the authorities at the airports in Sea-Tac and in Costa Rica showing that I have a confirmed scheduled trip out
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WOO HOO! In two more Saturdays I’ll be free of garage sales for two to three months. So what that means is that I only have to survive six more hours (noon to 3 pm) before I can be free again. (I’m not overtly antisocial: I’m just soooooooo done with garage sales for a while!!!
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I slept most of the day today, which was a good thing, because I have been sleeping sporadically for the better part of a week. Being so close to finished with my sorting/storing/selling/donating process has given me a feeling that I could fly away almost immediately to my new life in Costa Rica if I
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