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Sometimes, when I was a child, I was downright evil – not evil like Linda Blair in The Exorcist where her head was spinning around as she was spewing out green split pea soup, but evil nonetheless. Take the incident with my cousin, Eloise, for example, when we were both about 12 years old. It was summertime and we were at our grandparents’ home in North Florida. They had an outdoor shower...

Living in the northern part of the country, just about five hundred miles south of Canada, we have quite different markers for spring's arrival than, say, down in Texas or Alabama. Azaleas are nowhere to be found this time of year, except in a florist's shop. Instead, we celebrate the arrival of the first fat robin of spring pulling worms out of the front lawn. The first bluebird warbling...

Hi I am not a blogger so here goes. I just need to up date my one and only blog.... I went back...

Once again the strange and mysterious has come back to haunt me.Yesterday morning I was getting ready for work about to brush my teeth when I heard something running. I couldn't put my finger on what it was so I went out to investigate the noise. It almost sounded like water running. My hubby had gone fishing that afternoon so I was thinking he hadn't turned the water off after rinsing the salt...

The last summerlike day it was, when we walked behind the hearse to the graveyard to burry my...

Meanwhile in what passes for the news media... I'm sorry, I wish I could complain about this...

This year, I've been very slack about exercising, and was disgusted with myself. I KNOW what I should be doing, I KNOW what I can do, and I also know that because I'm entirely alone, and 76 years old, I MUST keep up the exercise or lose mobility and independence. But still I didn't do it. I moved house in January, and that ended a three year period of intense uncertainty, because the...