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The obit 19 hours ago ..... the real estate agent who sold me my home passed away at 82 years old. It was said to be a peaceful death and her husband of 30 years died 11 days later.  In all the years she lived here in town,  I never knew she was married and I never knew she had twins from her previous marriage. One of them died at some point. It did not say when, but losing a child doesn't need a lot of details. We can imagine. People say, "I can't imagine," but they can and don't want to say anything else. I never knew her dad died in a work accident when she was a teen. Her mom brought her and her sisters here after his death. Her maiden name was a popular old time preacher's name. I do remember hearing that she started many things, clubs, groups, volunteering, donated money, etc. She was #1 in real estate in the town and there will he a big "celebration of life" downtown next month. Everyone is welcome. I remember her being patient with me and try...

A few years ago, I was in a weekly book study. I loved it! Sometimes I would substitute for the leader. I have always loved 'teaching' in a round table setting, books in front of us, on the table. I do miss those times, but I am just trying to survive the weeks nowadays. I am literally taking mom to one or two doctor visits, and/or tests every week. I am so tired of it.  She is finally saying that she is tired of it as well, but what do we cancel? A skin graft? Can't do that. It may be the only thing that works! Three rounds of antibiotics and special creams have not. She hasn't had a yearly mammogram in a bit, so I shouldn't cancel that either. She starts PT again and I have been asking for that order to be filled for awhile, so no way am I going to cancel that.  So, I trudge through. I don't like "sickies" I joke around, and that includes me when I am ill ! I worked in the medical field a few years and I hated it 80% of the time. I was in 'Resear...

I believe, in general, we don't talk about Covid and our losses from 2020-2022 enough.  I had seven friends die during that period. Two of them were close and it was a huge loss. They both left their mothers and young children at home alone.  Maybe more than seven died from Covid because a lot more people died, but if their family were in denial, they would often list their death as something else. I figured others were Covid, though. I quit church altogether, but still knew the 'goings on' of three of my previous churches. One congregation lost 50 or 60 of their parishioners and that was hard. Especially when that specific church didn't really 'believe' in Covid. They still had meetings even when they were told not to. I wrote anonymously to the Pastor, when 800 a day were dying in other countries, about being a "good shepherd" to his "flock" He replied they had it "handled."  After that, Covid rushed through that church like a wil...

my muse blocked me on Twitter. Just as well ... it was right before I fully fell in lust and lurve with my muse. it was right before my assignment to tell the story of my first love,  James. love at first sight, all the girls wanted him, but he only had eyes for me. we became inseparable, learned everything about each other  he wrote me poems,  where love rhymed with dove, small with all, hand with sand, he once hit himself at a bbq with a hammer, to try & stop my mother and I from fighting. We did  stop fighting to see Why he was so crazy And to check if he had Broken Anything when months later, he was forced to return to Santa Cruz ... (our families were tearing us apart,)  he wrote daily And when he decided to come Get me  on my Sweet 16, He stole a red hot Mustang to get here. It was his 19th b-day. We took it for a joy ride in the  desert, we watched the stars light up, wave to insignificant us, I did not go with him because I had started a ne...

These are band names and book titles. So copyrighted it will make your teeth hurt.  Especially "ONE FIGHT LIZZY," my current title of the book I am working on now 😍❤😍 Aw Swope lunatics of girl gold ring brick  LRG e l l e Gorgie  Missing Muse pink pathway  vagabond  kitchen frog country  the greatest jail time stories of all  chapstick moses  coven of wreaths  thug in a suit  ONE FIGHT LIZZY  Tupal hard sloth  running from love  The Swinging Winky

When I first got on the internet in the 90s, I had a notebook I wrote people's email addresses and their chat names with tidbits of information on them. It helped me keep track.  Nowadays, I will use the Twitter search with the first letter or two of an individual's user name and they will pop right up. That is, until Elon took over.  Now it doesn't work.  First thing I noticed was the "translate tweet" link was gone. That really bothered me in numerous ways. It made me feel out of the global "loop" and that it was taken away on purpose. It was, thankfully fixed after a week or so.  I noticed Elon replying to tweets that were very divisive. They were nasty bad and he was encouraging them. Praising them almost. This, of course, is my opinion. Good or bad is relative on any given day. Then, I noticed there were discussions being had about rating your presence in the Twitterverse based on blocks. Not sure people have experienced any of these things on Twitt...