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Greetings
I went to the store today to purchase birthday cards, the old fashioned kind that require an envelope and a stamp. The particular store offered American Greeting Cards, which I have since learned is the most popular brand with Hallmark
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Third Decade
Author Malcolm Gladwell was an original proponent of the 10,000 Rule, which states that someone needs to practice a skill for that many hours to be a professional at it. From what I’ve read, Gladwell applied this theory particularly to
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Trading Deadline
July 31 is the deadline for major league baseball teams to trade players to other teams for one of their players or a future phenom in the minor league system. The Cubs franchise has said it has given up on
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Today
Today is the day President Joe Biden stopped his campaign for re-election to the presidency of the United States. Today is the day I cancelled my standing subscription to The New York Times. And today is the day I finished
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Wine and Cheese
Last night I attended a Wine and Cheese Party with several other women. It wasn’t like an appetizer party where everyone brings something to share. Sometimes you BYOB too. It wasn’t a sit-down dinner nor was it a dessert and
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Kaminski Farms Meats
This afternoon Earl and I had an adventure. He had read an article recently about the difference between meat one buys at a supermarket and meat one buys directly from a meat farm.
Farm fresh meat has no preservatives, while
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July Oneth
How quickly the summer season passes. It’s already July. Granted, there are two full months to go, but it seems as if the days pass with the speed of light.
I looked up the definition of the speed of light
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Book Club
Tonight was my monthly book club meeting, and I was the moderator. We read A Doll’s House, written by Henrik Ibsen in 1879. I chose it because its themes of feminine servitude are relevant today, especially with recent Supreme Court
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On the Subject of Sleepovers
Our friendship was only a few years old when I moved from Detroit, where both N and I lived, to Chicago. But it was forged in the kiln of our mutual interest in learning about almost anything.
Which is why
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Artwork
We live in a community on the banks of Lake Michigan where the décor is sand-drenched and sunny. More than one home has what I call a “beachy” appearance in line with the environment. It’s white Adirondack chairs on the
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