My new Venus flytrap appears to be doing well so far, but all of the traps are closed up due to being jostled, unboxed, and fiddled with to settle it into its new, larger pot. They don’t like being “harassed”! I did manage to feed it a mealworm before it closed up, though, so […]
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Historic Confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Federal Judges of Diverse Backgrounds Share on FacebookShare on XCopy Linkhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/therecord/?utm_source=link&share_id=vdIZIaDownload President Biden nominated and the Senate confirmed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Justice Jackson is one of our nation’s brightest legal minds and has unprecedented
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Mummy Juanita’s DNA has connected me to a new relative! Akiya Thomas has reached out to me. What a delightful surprise! For those of you who follow this blog, you may remember that more than a year ago I took a DNA test with CRI Genetics, which tracked my DNA back 32 generations.
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Isabel Wilkerson’s book CASTE (CASTE: The Orgins of Our Discontents) is reverberating in my heart and mind like crazy. I think everyone should read it. Or at least go see the movie based on it, called ORIGIN. It’s in theaters now. Eye-opening. Troubling. Heartbeaking. Given the new lens, I totally see how caste (as
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New Zealand is fewer than 40 days away. WOO HOO! I am getting super excited now. And a little bit anal, as well! But it’s all good! PET/FARM ANIMAL CARE SHEET FOR JACKIE The other night I typed out a two-page care sheet for my sister Jackie to follow when she takes care
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I’ve read three more books this week: a children’s book that won an award (don’t understand why, so won’t mention the title) plus THE FOUR AGREEMENTS by Don Migel Ruiz and DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU THINK, The Beginning and the End of Suffering by Joseph Nguyen. The two I’ve divulged the titles of have helped
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I’m up and wide awake at 2 a.m. again. It isn’t insomnia. It’s just that I fell asleep at 7 p.m. and, for me, seven hours is long enough to be sleeping at a stretch. The down side is that I’ll get tired again at just about the time I need to go
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Orders from New Zealand headquarters: DO NOTHING. ARE WE IN CHARGE! That’s the best news I’ve heard since the spinach factory blew up! Our only marching orders are to get some NZ currency in the Auckland International Airport before we head for the waiting area where Helen Schofield will be waiting for us.
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It’s O dark thirty and I am sleepless in Tacoma. Took a long nap yesterday afternoon and retired at 9, so my full complement of sleeping hours are covered, for sure! So, what better way to spend it than slow-cooking some homemade vegetable soup? Got up at about 3 a.m. to put on
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Thought you might like to see typical “job listings” at Upwork so you can see the ridiculously low budgets offered. Not even minimum wage for the amount of work required. Experienced “Success Mindset” Writer – 25,000 Words Non-Fiction Book Extensive research and back up data required. Fixed-price – Expert – Est. Budget: $1,000 Ghostwriter Wanted to Nonfiction Ebook Only freelancers
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