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As of 2022, I have been blogging for 10 years. Not as long as some but it has been a creative and fulfilling adventure. And it has kept me devoted to writing for this whole time. I intend to keep on blogging and these are my stories.
As promised on my facebook intro to my very serious last post, this next one is all about butterflies and cupcakes. Ironically, while waiting for the bus this morning in the driveway, a monarch butterfly mistook Eamon for a flower and scared him. I laughed really hard. Vintage fashion brooch butterflies. I have my grandmothers…
We had a “meeting” set up for 10am. And we met. Hi, nice to meet you. I’m Alberta or Ramona or Jill. But what we really did was to sit in that coffee shop and tell our stories. Each of us has one or two thousand of these. Tales of our locations or our health…
When I began my blog, I was not really a blog follower. I didn’t know, and to a certain extent still don’t know, what kind of blog I will end up being. No big Big picture but I’m working on it. I have many interests. I love to write and ponder and I love decorating…
This moment is the first one I can claim as being alone at home this summer. Sure the husband and I enjoyed a needed break last Friday when the boy went to Grammy and Pop Pop’s. We watched a movie before 9pm. Usually that’s post book-reading and saying goodnight time. Decadent. The movie was kinda…
My dear and near people understand the irony of my endeavor here on this contraption. I swore off computers. I was exasperated by their promissory ease being ruined by their complicated actuality. And then a year ago, I started a blog. Everyone was impressed. My terror of screwing up was most impressive as well. I…
Suffice it to say, I am, for very good reason, still petrified of computers. The process of creating a connection between what I love to do ( write) and where to do it( here) has taken a score of years. And yesterday I nearly had a panic attack trying to hook up my host with…
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