DISCLAIMER: The following is my personal commentary and opinion only. I am not a trained or certified medical professional. If you need help, are concerned about your memory, or want to learn more, please consult with your personal physician, local aging support network, or the Alzheimer’s Association (http://www.alz.org) In the last few years, several friends and co-workers have had parents diagnosed with…
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HA! Caught you! You thought this was going to be something risqué, didn’t you? Go on, admit it. Truth is it’s about us non-graphic folks getting graphics into our blogs. I’m a big fan of white space. But, what I really love is nice pictures or graphics. NOTE: I DO NOT RECEIVE ANY PAYMENT OR RECOGNITION IN EXCHANGE FOR INCLUDING…
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The Sewing Machine by Natalie Fergie is a beautifully written story of a sewing machine that stitches a family’s patchwork history together piece by piece. It opens in 1911 at a Singer factory in Scotland where a young seamstress journals her life in the factory, and after, by stitching pieces of fabric into a notebook. A generation later, her daughter…
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Nine perfect strangers show up at a health retreat, each hiding, exploring, growing from, something broken in their lives they hope to heal. Then….PLOT TWIST! Lianne Moriarty does it again with this perfectly twisted novel, Nine Perfect Strangers. When I read the preview, my first thought was, “Well, this sounds interesting…people who make friends at a health spa. I’ve always…
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I decided to break the ice on my “fear” of art by just playing with my “stuff.” Seems to me, the best place to start is to understand what all this “stuff” looks like in action and how it works. If you read my post Why am I Afraid of Art, you know that when I decide to start something…
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Call me a crazy American, but I am totally fascinated with the Royal Family. I supposed it started with my first reading, and viewing, of Cinderella as a child. Or perhaps it was Snow White….thank you Disney! But, I never really paid attention to the real, bigger-than-life-real-life Royal Family until I had a roommate in college whose father worked for…
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Dare I say there’s no such thing as no time for a delicious meal? I’m the first to admit if I’m tired and hungry, I’ll troll the pantry looking for what’s probably not too healthy. But, in my quest for eating healthier at least 80% of the time, I’ve come to love this absolutely delicious, stupid easy meal. It goes…
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