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Tag Archives: Relationships
Benevolent Nuns
My mother was a comfort to the incarcerated. Continue reading
Open Conversation
I feel guilty that I don’t love all of the people I’m related to. Continue reading
Posted in Friends & Family, Human Condition
Tagged Experience, Family, Personal, Relationships
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Lawn Poop
Good Gawd!!! There is so MUCH that annoys me at this moment. I’d like to cry in frustration and rage that The Donald is the very best the GOP can do. “They” must have the lowest possible opinion of … Continue reading
Posted in Human Condition, Politics
Tagged economy, Government, Humor, Personal, Relationships
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Wrong Answer
My husband told me that we have luna moths that fly in dipping, circular patterns all night. Luna moths are magical, like fire flies. When I got up to pee, I looked out the window, and sure enough, they were … Continue reading
Posted in Autonomy, Human Condition, Marriage
Tagged Aging GRACEFULLY, Personal, Relationships, True Love, Writing
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Individually Independent
You don’t want to hear this again, I know you don’t. That won’t stop me. For a while I forgot who I was/am. I need new bras and a shower curtain. I spend more time devising ways to keep people … Continue reading
Posted in Autonomy, Marriage
Tagged INDEPENDENCE, Personal, Relationships, True Love, Values
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Love’s Force
My husband and I are in diametric opposition to quite a lot. Sometimes we surprise each other and ourselves. *Spoiler alert- do not buy Marvin push out windows if you live in an area of high wind velocity. Those windows … Continue reading
Veterans’ Views
In the past little while, a month maybe six weeks, time escapes me (it flees), we’ve worked with a couple of veterans. They’re veterans of wars that never were, Iran and Afghanistan. Congress has not made a declaration of war … Continue reading
Posted in Friends & Family, Human Condition, Politics
Tagged Experience, Government, Relationships
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Anyone Anytime
Joan Baez is on PBS tonight, Diamonds and Rust, 75 years old, can that be right? Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Tangled Up in Blue, which brings us to the Bob Dylan Republican. There’s a soft spot in my heart for … Continue reading
Lingering Loiterers
Just to let you know (I preface questionable news with that same statement for my husband) Hippy Hall is sometimes more like Hippy Hell. My husband is a workaholic and a fucking entrepeneur extraordinaire. Oh, and by the way I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Aging GRACEFULLY, Experience, Humor, Personal, Relationships, True Love
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Bert & Ida
My siblings and I grew up in a working class community, one of the last strongholds of the east coast fish cannery industry. We were lucky because we were raised by two generations of educators and influenced by an assortment … Continue reading
Posted in Human Condition
Tagged Friendship, Personal, Poverty, Relationships, Values
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