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Where Bloggers Live 08:2023: Time Travel

  Howdy sweet chums!! Thanks for stopping by for this month’s Where Bloggers Live 08.2023: Time Travel. This month finds my WBL buddies and I pontificating on, if time travel were possible, to what period we would want to travel.  Bettye may have out done herself with this prompt!! Where Bloggers Live   Before we […]

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Sentence a Day 08.2023

Howdy, gals!!  Thanks for joining me for Sentence a Day 08.2023 – a monthly review of my August in one run-on sentence a day.  Overall, it was a pretty darn good month.  Possibly the best month yet in 2023.  Hopeful that we are going to wind up the year with 4 more good months just […]

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Summer 2023 Goals and Bucket List

Morning glories!!  Have been trying to get this post put together since…well, since before summer began.  But we have been in kind of a holding pattern waiting to meet with PC’s surgeon and to know for certain that they got all of the cancer O-U-T.  It’s hard to make plans when you are holding your […]

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Tell Us About 07.2023: Travel

  Hello dollies!  This month my “Tell Us About” co-hosts are getting together to write to Sue’s theme – travel.  If you are new to this series it is a creative writing challenge that invites bloggers to respond to a different prompt on the third Thursday of the month.  The gals are taking turns coming […]

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Sentence a Day 06.2023

  Welcome, ole pals to Sentence a Day 06.2023 – my monthly review of life in one run-on sentence a day. Today I am bringing you my sentences from June.  Seemed like we were waiting for PC’s surgery forever…and then BAM, it happened.  And on Friday of this week, it will have been a month […]

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Spring 2023 Goals and Bucket List: Final Update

  Hello dollies!! Accountability time, my friends.  Time to take a look at how I did on my spring goals and spring 2023 bucket list.  Oh, and there’s that WOTY, too.  Remember it?  Yeah, consistency.  Time to see if I have been consistently working toward achieving my goals and filling my bucket list.    Just […]

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