by Melanie | Nov 28, 2018 | Blog
Tomorrow is Hubby’s fiftieth birthday, an event I have been waiting for with gleeful anticipation. “Oh, my husband? He’s not with me right now…you know how TIRED folks in their fifties get.” “Are you SURE you should eat that? Now that you’re fifty, you need to...
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by Melanie | Sep 19, 2016 | Blog |
Another birthday, another chance to impress the world with my seemingly unending youth. Lord, I barely got that out with a straight face. I am old, old, old. Maybe not geezer old, but old enough to be decidedly unfunny to young people working at various service...
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by Melanie | Jun 23, 2016 | Blog |
Like most folks, I’ve spent a lot of my time sorting myself out; parceling out the traits I like and the ones I don’t. I’ve decided that I like my everlasting urge to improve myself. I like that I’m a quick study and pick up new ideas fairly...
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by Melanie | Dec 16, 2015 | Blog |
A dear friend recently gifted me a bracelet inscribed with the motto “she believed she could, so she did.” In the past, my pessimistically superstitious nature wouldn’t willingly don such an item, feeling as I did that to do so would be to court certain failure. But...
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by Melanie | Oct 14, 2014 | Blog |
As of today, I have been married 19 years. It seems like a deal. Especially if you add the word “happily” in there, which is after all, the goal, right? “I have been happily married for 19 years.” Wow. I have never once, in all honestly,...
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