Category: Special Issue

busy weekend

The weekend we’ve been waiting for is upon us. We, meaning, my husband and I. Saturday night is my 20th year high school reunion. And Sunday is the Milwaukee Marathon, which my husband is running. I’m looking forward to the reunion, he’s looking forward to the marathon. Well, as much as one can look forward …

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code word for love

Today my husband and I celebrate our 11th wedding anniversary. Wow! Eleven years! Anyhow, in honor of our anniversary I’m rerunning a post about our code word for love. Oh, and to tell you that I got him 9 jars various olives: black olives, burgandy olives, kalamata olives, tipsy olives (don’t ask, I don’t know, I thought the …

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Photos from Door County

  This photo was taken from a lookout tower in Peninsula State Park in Fish Creek, Wisconsin (Door County). The view is looking straight down the tower to the ground. What you see is the sidewalk area and the top of a waist-high stone wall, as well as the tree tops. It’s pretty high up, …

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A big fat thank you!

Remember when my husband had his kidney biopsy? Well, right after that we found out that the kidney doctor WAS NOT in our insurance plan. That meant that the we’d have to pay 100% for the biopsy out of our pocket! Since it was after the fact, there wasn’t too much we could do about it …

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Good deed

As I mentioned earlier, I finished reading Harry Potter this morning. I could have finished it last night, but I decided to just finish it this morning instead. This resulted in being a teeny tiny bit late this morning. Okay, so I was running about 45 minutes late to if we must be exact.  We made …

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Closer than they appear

I’m reposting this as a tribute to my Grandfather, who passed away March 29, 2003.  It’s been four years now, and it seems like it was only yesterday. Closer Than They Appear My taxi pulled up to Tampa General Hospital. It was a large stucco building, and in the dark night it had a pink glow, …

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STOLEN

You may or may not know this, but in 2005 I wrote a short novel. It hasn’t been published, but I did share it with my readers at the time I was writing it. I have all intentions of proofreading it and sending it off to someone who might be able to do something with …

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