personal story
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The magic number is…
As each of us ages, we have some big, complicated decisions to make. From the age of 15 (almost five decades now), my biggest decisions were where to work, how much salary my work was worth, did the company offer stock or stock options, was there a match for the money I put into my… Continue reading
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From the little girl with the glasses and frizzy hair
Yesterday, Mark Volman died. He was one of the original members of The Turtles, a US-based rock band of the 1960s. Continue reading
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King Louis the Wild
Taking a brief pause from my righteous anger at the idiots who have taken over our country. This is Louis (pronounced loo-ee) who is my new baby. Probably he will be my last pet, but never say never, I guess. I could live into my 80s. Louis is a Maltipoo (dad is Maltese and mom Continue reading
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Time may change me.
But you can’t trace time. Lots of things have changed for me in a month’s time. I’m growing tired, really, of talking about my health, but it has been the one thing that has been in my face for the last almost twenty years of my life. I can choose to ignore, or I can Continue reading
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A fresh start.
It’s a new year and a great time for a fresh start. I’ve called this the year I finish the memoir, in the hopes that it will inspire me to move past the things that have me blocked. It isn’t that I haven’t made a lot of progress; it’s that I haven’t put all my Continue reading
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Honoring the ancestors and the descendants.
This is our most thoughtful time of year, no matter your stripe. For pagans, Samhain encompasses Halloween evening and November first. For others, it is either a time to be feared, shunned, or enjoyed with abandon. Many Americans don’t do anything for All Hallow’s Day/Samhain, but there is a beauty to remembering and honoring our Continue reading
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Death comes for everyone.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. – John Donne Continue reading
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Complicated and complete.
So many regrets. So much left behind. Continue reading
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Life’s little truths.
The seven things that tie us together, and what we leave behind. Continue reading
About Me
A writer and solitary soul in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
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