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This year, December 25th marks the date Christmas is celebrated and the day Hanukkah begins. It weighs heavy on my heart that wars are continuing to rage around the world and that many people of differing religious and political observations and philosophies continue to disagree and exhibit hate towards one another. What if we take

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I’ve always been comfortable being alone. Perhaps that’s because I was an only child and I’m good at entertaining myself,

I was never one of those kids who knew what they wanted to be when they grew up. Even now

It’s no secret that I love music. My earliest musical memories are of my father, playing clarinet with a Dixieland

When I was a little girl my parents had a hard time getting me to eat anything, especially foods that

Along with watering some of my outdoor plants, twice a day, to keep them from dying in the heat, my

Gone are the days when it was easy for me to go to sleep. In fact, since my late 30’s,

The other morning a friend asked me how long could I survive with the food I had in my kitchen

Last Friday I spent my 70th birthday at Diana Ross’s 75th Diamond Jubilee Birthday Celebration at the Wynn Hotel in

Today is my birthday. I’m 25,550 days old, although many days I don’t feel a day over 9,125. This week

I’ve been sitting in the gastrointestinal day surgery waiting room since 6:30 this morning. A male nurse with a carpet

When I was in middle school I wore coke bottle glasses, braces on my teeth and my hair looked like

I have a friend who changed jobs, moved to a new city on the other side of the country and

Not long ago I suggested to a friend, who is divorced and over 50, that she might try changing the

When I was a kid we seldom went to church unless my grandmother came to visit. I never went to

Last week’s blog about the “invisible man” sitting in the Spanish chair in my living room got me thinking about

I feel like you know me well enough that I can tell you this. Last night I told the “invisible

One of my favorite women is someone I’ve never met in-person. Until we spoke on the phone, I’ve known Sandra

Good, bad or outrageous, my life has been about as normal as picking blueberries on Mars. After reading my blog