Helen had pre-purchased our tickets to be sure there would be room available the day we went. There was plenty of room. We were the only people in our group so our tour guide could easily answer any questions we had. I didn’t have any. I was too busy snapping photos… and this […]
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On Monday, March 18, Debbie drove Lisa, Helen and me to Auckland to visit the Kelly Tarleton/Auckland/SeaLife Aquarium and the Auckland Museum Both are relatively close to each other, so we decided to make a day of it. Our first stop was the aquarium, which was an awesome experience from the get go.
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After the go-go-go week we had, Helen scheduled a sedate weekend for us. It was just what the doctor ordered. Lisa and I walked to the Howick Village Street Market to check out the treasures that were being made and baked there. We were serenaded at one point by a group of high school
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Before I continue on this journal of our time in New Zealand, I want to express how well cared for we were by Helen and Debbie. Helen spent long months deciding where we should go and what we should see during our available 12 days in New Zealand. Plus, for weeks before our arrival,
Now that I’ve spent several days resting, recovering, and catching up with homebound emails and chores (and recovering from the COVID I caught on the plane on the way back), it’s time to start putting into words, sentences and paragraphs the fabulous time that Lisa Twining and I spent in New Zealand. It’s going to
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I still can’t get on Facebook except via my smartphone this morning. When I try, it says I’m a PITA (because I’ve tried too many times before, or just because I try to post my website URL to my FB page?) If #2 is the case, why does FB allow me on in any way?
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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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The new Streisand book My Name is Barbra is a heartbreaking, triumphant autobiography. It’s very long (over 900 pages on Kindle) and I don’t want it to end! Here’s the link to it at Amazon: My Name is Barbra It’s as deeply thought out and well-written as her concerts, movies, and TV specials
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Prospective clients are experimenting with AI now, so my opportunities for original sales and content writing work have plummeted. I know they’ll increase again as people find out that AI copy and content writing is a losing strategy, so I’m segueing to editing in the meantime, which doesn’t pay anywhere near what original writing does.
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Historic Expansion of Benefits and Services for Toxic Exposed Veterans Share on FacebookShare on XCopy Linkhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/therecord/?utm_source=link&share_id=w1IxIJDownload President Biden signed into law the PACT Act – the most significant expansion of benefits and services for toxic exposed veterans in more than 30 years. This law also enables the Department of Veterans Affairs to move more quickly
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