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Living Two Lives

January 9, 2023

I was never interested in living two lives. Sounded too complicated for me. But here I am, one week shy …

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snowed in

December 12, 2022

Don’t even try to follow my screen shots below! But I want you to experience the frustration I had last …

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Throwing Away My Past Life: Part 3

July 18, 2022

My past life has now been shredded. I’ve sorted and purged my multitude of banker’s boxes and file cabinet drawers. …

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Throwing Away My Past Life: Part 2 (Hard!)

June 20, 2022

Some things from my boxes I can’t throw away. Yet. I was doing fine with my purge until the final …

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Throwing Away My Past Life

June 6, 2022

George Burns once said, “You know you’re getting old when you stoop down to tie your shoelaces and wonder what …

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Wintering in AZ

March 14, 2022

I’m getting ready to say goodbye to my winter hideout in AZ; in a few weeks, I’ll be heading home …

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Growing Older: On Turning 80

January 17, 2022

“What are you trying to prove?” my friend asked in a text. I had just sent her a photo of …

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T is for Taxes

April 23, 2021

An Entry in the Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge Taxes. I’ve made my fifth trip to my …

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S is for Saying Farewell to My Nursing Files

April 22, 2021

I stand here by a wall of metal file cabinets—three in a row, four drawers each—a nursing career of memories …

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N is for Normal

April 16, 2021

An entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge I wince when I think of normal, especially …

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