Microfiction Monday

Welcome to Microfiction Monday, where a picture only paints 140 characters. Susan at Stony River has begun a Microfiction Monday wherein participants write a story in 140 characters based on a particular image that Susan has chosen for the day.  Design 215’s Character Counter helps keep track of the number of characters. It’s a fun [...]

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Mary’s Dream

(Author unknown) I had a dream, Joseph. I don’t understand it, not really, but I think it was about a birthday celebration for our Son. I think that was what it was all about. The people had been preparing for it for about six weeks. They had decorated the house and bought new clothes. They’d [...]

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A Christmas Survey

Saw this over at Bears In Exile. About the TREE…. 1.When do you put up the Christmas tree? It varies, depending on everyone’s schedule. Only once the day after Thanksgiving — that seems to soon for us. 2. Real or fake? Real. 3. Lights? What color? Multi-colored. 4. Garland? No. 5. Theme or no theme? [...]

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Friday’s Fave Five

Susanne at Living to Tell the Story hosts a “Friday Fave Five” in which we share our five favorite things from the past week. Click on the button to read more of the details, and you can visit Susanne to see the list of others’ favorites or to join in. So here are five of [...]

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My Mom

Four years ago today I received the call no one wants to hear telling me my mom had suddenly passed away. I wrote this a couple of years ago for Mother’s Day: My mom and me: From my earliest memory, my mom was my best friend — not in a way that was too chummy [...]

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Wednesday Random Dozen Meme

The Random Dozen meme is created and hosted by Linda at 2nd Cup of Coffee. She has a Mr. Linky set up if you’d like to see others’ responses or join in. 1. Which physical trait do you now accept–maybe not love, but accept–and no longer feel extremely self-conscious about? My nose. It’s probably my [...]

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Christmas funnies

This morning I played around with three different ideas for a post, kept nodding off in my chair, laid down for a nap, slept too long, and really need to get moving! But I resurrected a post from three years ago when I didn’t know most of you, and added a few new ones at [...]

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Microfiction Monday and other odds and ends

Welcome to Microfiction Monday, where a picture only paints 140 characters. Susan at Stony River has begun a Microfiction Monday wherein participants write a story in 140 characters based on a particular image that Susan has chosen for the day.  Design 215’s Character Counter helps keep track of the number of characters. It’s a fun [...]

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‘Tis the season…

…for things to break down, apparently. A couple of weeks ago the furnace went out. Then the washer developed a leak in the pump. Now my microwave doesn’t work unless you bang on the side a couple of times, The gauges and speedometer, etc., on my dashboard are not showing up (everything starts and shifts [...]

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