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Cookies for Kids

The post office had a food drive a couple weeks ago. Blue plastic bags to be filled with non-perishable items were left at each of our mailboxes and a postal worker was scheduled to...

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If At First You Don’t Succeed…………

Our family was together on Mother’s Day and we laughed about some of the things my husband’s mother did. When computers first were available for home use Margaret figured she better stay in touch...

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Travel Envy

I’m convinced I have a little gypsy blood because there’s nothing I like better than going places. We have a small teardrop camper and I keep a deck of Tarot cards in there, just...

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My Muse

When I started writing my Lightly Tethered blog more than ten years ago, just for fun I advertised with my Facebook friends for a muse. A long-time friend responded and even went so far...

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The Secret to Laughter

According to A-I: “He who laughs last, laughs best” (or longest/loudest) means the person who succeeds or has control in the end wins, even if others seemed to have an advantage earlier.” (Yellow highlighting...

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Ode To Puppy

Ode To Puppy

Our son was out of town for a couple of weeks and his dog stayed with us. We’ve always had a dog, often multiple dogs at one time, for all of our fifty-plus years...

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Ordinary People

A friend I met at a writing workshop sent me an article by a woman named Dr Nadine Levy. The lead-in was “What If Your Life Turned Out To Be Ordinary?” I don’t know...

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Choir Credit

One of our granddaughters sings in the Seattle Children’s Choir and of course, we go to the concerts. At the last one, there was a boy about ten years old in the group and...

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Chimney Decor

My husband’s mother had a crazy saying she threw into conversations every now and then: “Well, sew buttons on a chimney.” She used it kind of like Tony Soprano would shrug and say, ‘Whaddaya...

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Down By The Shipyards

I live in Seattle, a city that would seem large enough to support a number of good sized fabric stores. That’s not the case. There are some smallish specialty fabric places that have lovely...

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