You may wonder what’s joyful about exercising, but this former couch potato is really enjoying the feel of my body firming up.  I’m exercising to strengthen my leg muscles and in doing so to give my knee some help so I’m not walking on bone. You know what?  It’s working!  I haven’t had a severe [...]

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What do you call it?  Is the turkey the focal point of your celebration, or is your focus on being thankful for what you have? In these troubled times, it helps us to center on what we have that we really appreciate:  a home, friends, enough food, work.  You may lack some of these things, [...]

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I’m taking Maxie to the writers conference.  Everyone I talk to says “Cool.  Take her.”  That’s fine for them to say.  They don’t have an out-of-control character in their book.  I call her book Maxie’s Book 1: Malibu Murder.”  It’s just the first.  If we don’t clash heads too often, there will be more.  I’m [...]

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I decided to write a new post, but when the blank space for writing came up, I panicked!  Blogging is usually an easy thing for me, but at the moment, my brain is blank.  What to do?  Quit belaboring the point and get on with it. So, I’m going to leave this blog and write [...]

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