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Tell Us About 07.2025: Supernatural

  Happy Thursday, friends!!  Thank you for joining me for this month’s edition of Tell Us About 07.2025.  Today, the gals and I are responding to a thought-provoking prompt suggested by my friend Suzy from Suzy Turner, the Grey Brunette!! Please read on. Tell Us About   Tell Us About (TUA) is a global writing […]

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Sentence a Day 06.2025

  Good morning, good evening, good night, my friends.  Thanks for joining me for Sentence a Day 06.2025 – a long-winded review of my June coming to you in one poorly punctuated, run-on sentence a day.  Another really good month that started with us on vacation and ended with us on staycation!!  Life is good. […]

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Summer 2025 Bucket List and Goals

Sweet bucketeers, it has been exactly a year since I excavated my bucket list and seasonal goals series from blog posts of the past.  You can read that post, here.  My hopes for last summer’s activities were dashed when I broke my heel.  But I rallied – slowly – and by autumn, I was back […]

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Ageless Style 06.2025: La Tropical Edition

Fashionista friends, welcome to Ageless Style 06.2025:  La Tropical Edition.  Today’s prompt, tropical prints, comes to us from Mireille at Chez Mireille.  You might remember part of my spring bucket list and goals was to clean our bedroom and closet.  I was just pondering what I would wear for this month’s prompt when I (re-)discovered […]

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Final Update Spring 2025 Bucket List & Goals

  Hey, ladybugs🐞and flutterbies 🦋, thank you for stopping by to check out my final update on this spring’s bucket list and goals.  I fear there are going to be a number of activities bumped to summer that were also bumped from winter to spring!! The gals listed in the graphic below have also put […]

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Where Bloggers Live 06.2025: Things I LOVE About Summer

  Morning glories, welcome to today’s post, Where Bloggers Live 06.2025:  Things I Love About Summer.  Even though the calendar says summer is still officially 10 days away in the northern hemisphere, in El Paso, Texas summer has been here for several weeks.  A heat advisory has been issued warning that “the hottest days will […]

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07.01.2025 Come Read with Me voted to read Martha Hall Kelly's latest novel. Historical fiction set during World War II. Can't wait to begin!!

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