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SOME MORE STUFF! Winter will soon be but a memory...WHAT a memory!  Having lived in Naples, Florida 45 years, I can tell you, yes, I still remember.  Even now, when I allow a thought of those 32 ye

HEARD AT MEETINGS...

Steve E.

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Heard at a meeting (won't tell you who said these): "Never ever plan to NOT go to a meeting."  It is alright to not go, for one reason or another--just do not PLAN it that way.  Ya never know! W

Shut In (Literally)

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Well, once again it is snowing like @&$%# where I live and I am homebound.  It also looks like no one will be moving out of their abodes for several days, due to the "inclement weather" we are

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RANTING AND RAVING--NOT JUST IN JEST A "good" blogger I am NOT.  I got really hooked, became obsessive, and spent 8-10 hours a day writing, reading, and commenting...for a year-and-a-half.  Three w

Different Strokes

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My husband Mark, I have to admit it, hates fish. And people fish evangelize him all the time. I used to too, in my pre-vegetarian days, when a trip to the aquarium would make me hungry. The problem

Checking Out.

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Addiction has given me such an interesting bag of fears. Our roommate recently purchased an XBOX 360. He and my husband play and play and play, all day. Here are the things that I fear around the X

MAY I HAVE AN OFF-DAY???

Steve E.

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Dear Peeps: "Every day is not Christmas Day Every night is not New Year's Eve Some days, chill and dreary, Some nights cold and unlit, Steve" : The night has fallen Dark has descended. My w

The Snow Spoke

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Yesterday it snowed all day.  It was as if there was a giant flour sifter in the heavens that just endlessly dusted layer upon layer of light, pure, dainty snow powder all over the land.  I stayed

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