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By the time I get home from work, after a quick stop by the grocery store for bananas (for tomorrow) and the makings of a salad (for tonight), my husband Tom has the steaks on the grill. The scent drifts around the corner of the house to greet me as I come down the walk…
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My first thought was to write a murder mystery set in a chemical plant on the Houston ship channel, with a back story about a teenage-girl college-dropout who becomes a hard-hat-wearing fire-fighting chemical plant worker. "Write what you know" and all of that. (Not the murder part – just the "teenage-girl college-dropout chemical plant worker" bit.)…
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I'm kind of an award-aholic, as anyone who knew me in high school will tell you. Unfortunately, I don't think I've won any awards since "Miss Deer Park High School 1977"…until this week, that is! Now I'm the proud recipient of the Kreativ Blogger Award, thanks to Jill at Elemental, my dear. Thank you, Jill! I…
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Have you ever been tubing down a river? Imagine yourself nestled in the inner tube, feeling the balance of hot sun kissing your shoulders and cold water freezing your rear-end…you lean back and watch a few clouds drift by in the bluest-blue sky above you…. You are doing nothing (except perhaps sipping on a cold drink)…just enjoying…
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Sometimes it amazes me how a weekend, as it's depicted on a calendar, can have so much white space on it, yet when it's time to live it, it has become a too-small suitcase that you've over-packed and now you're sitting on top of it, bouncing, trying to get it all to fit. Needless to say, I didn't get many…
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Let me first say that I love my husband…I have fun just hanging out with him, he makes me laugh, we have great discussions, I can talk to him about anything, he's my best friend, blah, blah, blah… With that out of the way, let me second say that I love my girlfriends, too…and I…
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…for my friends, at least. If I can't have it myself ("yet" – I haven't given up!), I can at least celebrate and shamelessly promote my friends. Last night I placed orders on Amazon for two books published by friends from high school… Ann is beyond just a friend to me…our relationship is timeless…our souls have…
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…and I'll even sweeten the bet with $200! Well, technically Blogher and Sprint will. I've partnered with Blogher to write for their product reviews program and the first assignment was to write about a funny holiday road trip. That was easy…I wrote about the trip we took to my husband Tom's youngest brother John's wedding…
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I started dumping my thoughts and memories on paper when I was 8 years old and continued for years, on through high school, mostly in those little 5 year diaries with the flimsy locks. I ignored the boundary lines that were supposed to separate yearly entries…I sometimes used up several pages for one day. Sadly, when I moved…
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I didn't want to drive Tom's car to work Friday. My free trial period for XM Radio was on the eve of termination and I wanted to listen every minute I could until it was gone. At $12 a month, I didn't care about it enough to subscribe, but I wanted all the 'free' I…
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