We’re halfway through the year already. I can’t believe that. Of course, the end of June has had a new meaning to me as of twenty-one years ago. It was June 25, 1996, that I became a mom for the first time. Yesterday my daughter celebrated her twenty-first birthday without me. You may not think […]
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A beach trip is a great way to get away and take a break from the winter months. Even though the winter wasn’t as bad as it was supposed to be, getting away for a couple of days did my mind good. Less than three weeks before our spring break, I made plans to go
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Have you ever traveled one place, and when you leave, you tell yourself you’ll return to that place someday? I have. In fact, I’ve done that with several places I’ve visited over the years. But picking one place I would like to return to the most is a tough decision. I have several places with
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Rick Springfield rocked the Lawrenceburg Event Center on Saturday, February 4, 2017. I hadn’t seen Rick in concert in almost three years, and it was worth the ticket price to see him again. Originally, I had planned to go with a friend, but he ended up not feeling well. I debated for a split second
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Growing up, I originally wanted to be a teacher. But the writing bug bit me hard in high school when I took a journalism class my sophomore year. Being a writer wasn’t my intended career goal until then. I had wanted to be a teacher from the time was in elementary school. What did I
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What do I want for Christmas? I have many things on my list, like I always do. But I probably won’t see much, if any, of it. On my Christmas list, I have a variety of things — from books to an exercise program to Rick Springfield items to a MacBook and a Nikon camera
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Are you single, or have you been single sometime in the distant past? If you have, then you know you have to think about the things that you want in a relationship. For the past 12 years, I have been single again. I have dated some, but nothing has ever become serious. I haven’t had
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Today is Halloween. It’s an evening of taking your kids trick-or-treating. It’s also a time of going to haunted houses and getting scared by the craziness of what happens there. Halloween is also referred to as All Hallows Eve or All Saints Eve. It’s a day to remember the dead. Whatever Halloween means to you,
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Back in 1981, I discovered Rick Springfield. I loved his song, “Jessie’s Girl,” which hit number one in August that year. About the time that song hit the top of the charts, I figured out he was Dr. Noah Drake on on the soap opera, General Hospital. That soap opera help him push his music
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The beach is my happy place. Seriously. I had no idea until a few years ago how much going to the beach brings out the happiness I long to feel every day. Maybe that’s what this world needs more of. More people need to visit the beach. Maybe we’d have more happiness in our world
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