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Memories and Music

Memories and Music

Many mornings I wake up with music playing in my head, something that’s been kind of normal for me for decades. I love music, and I guess when the house is quiet, my brain starts playing songs while I sleep. This week I woke up to discover I was hearing a song from the musical, […]

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A Mother’s Winter Musings

A Mother’s Winter Musings

This is my first winter as an empty-nester, and that gives lots of time for reflections about life. Essentially, I am now officially retired as a mother. It’s a career I chose wholeheartedly and was committed to for more than 40 years. And like so many who retire from a career, I find myself wondering […]

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Tribute to Mom

Tribute to Mom

My mother-in-law passed away unexpectedly last week. Emotions came like waves, hoping that she would pull through the medical crisis, praying she would show signs of improvement, and then a kind of numb disbelief when suddenly word came that her body was shutting down and this was goodbye. To see her children and grandchildren around […]

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The Journey with Lyme and Bartonella

The Journey with Lyme and Bartonella

In 2014 I was treating for arthritis and fibromyalgia, recognizing that my energy and ability to walk were declining rapidly. I had to literally plan my trips across the house to the bathroom so I could carry things that needed to be put away along the path. I was afraid I’d be wheelchair-bound by the […]

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Life can be so crazy

Life can be so crazy

In 1987 we moved here to the Blue Ridge with 5 kids, one of them just a few weeks of age. We loaded two 24-foot U-hauls with all we could pack up and moved. It was so stressful that I actually prayed someone would steal one of the trucks while we slept overnight so we […]

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Getting back to normal…almost!

Getting back to normal…almost!

After three years of actively treating lyme/babesia/bartonella with natural remedies and cold laser and PEMF therapy, I am about 75% back to being myself again. I still struggle with walking and muscle rigidity and spasms (think MS symptoms) but my mind is coming back! I am feeling creative and not having so much trouble finding […]

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All My Tears

Another song Abby and I recorded.

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Wayfaring Stranger

My daughter Abby and I recorded this together a couple of years ago.

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More joys of spam…

More joys of spam…

Even with a great spam filter on our server removing 90% of the spam that comes through, every day there are new ones that find their way through the system. Many are annoying, but some are downright funny. Yesterday I got this one. It was called a “Visibility Report” and listed a domain name that […]

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Downsizing and decluttering

Downsizing and decluttering

There’s nothing like watching a clip from the TV show “Hoarders” to make you want to clean house…and closets…and garage. Clearly, most of those people are suffering a form of mental illness. No rational person would choose to live in a house piled with stuff so high they can only get through a path in […]

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Was George Orwell a prophet?

Was George Orwell a prophet?

I’ve been thinking a lot about my online activities since the news story broke about the big social media players deciding to restrict whatever they consider to be “hate speech.” This whole politically correct thing is on the verge of fulfilling George Orwell’s 1984 novel.

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I used to love blogging…

I used to love blogging…

After a lifetime of using words to express my thoughts and emotions, it seems strange to struggle for words. But for the last six months or so, that’s been the case. Writer’s block? No. Just no motivation to write. I don’t know if it’s the battle with lyme disease robbing me of expressiveness, or just […]

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Songs I've Recorded

Almighty_I_Surrender.mp3     
Baruch_Hashem_Adonai.mp3     
Child_After_Your_Own_Heart.mp3     
Goodnight_Kiss.mp3     
Had_It_Not_Been.mp3     
His_Love_Was_Reaching.mp3     
How_Could_You_Say_No.mp3     
Home_Free.mp3     
Softly_and_Tenderly.mp3     
Things_We_Leave_Behind.mp3     
To_Be_Like_Jesus.mp3     
To_the_Cross.mp3     
Touch_of_the_Masters_Hand.mp3     
Trust_His_Heart.mp3     
Via_Dolorosa.mp3     
YouNeededMe.mp3     

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Idiots

twain“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”

Mark Twain
Whose Side?

lincoln“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”

Abraham Lincoln

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