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TGIF

May the sunshine burn you Happy!

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One resolution…

…to let it flow!

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Holiday Wishes

May your heart be filled with hope, joy and much love this holiday season, and may all your expectations be exceeded!
Peace & Love,
Jill

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Christmas Cards

The first commercially produced Christmas card was created in London in 1843, at a time when Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol and Queen Victoria was introducing German Christmas traditions to the British populace. The popularity of Christmas cards grew throughout the mid-nineteenth century and spread to both sides of the Atlantic. Imagery on Victorian [...]

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The upside of being down

I’ve never been much of a shopper; that’s not saying I don’t like to buy things, because I love that. I just hate to shop, unless we’re talking about antiquing or book shopping; that’s another matter entirely and events in and of themselves!
It’s the entire shopping process I don’t like. The time it wastes [...]

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What was I thinking?

It was the day I had anticipated, even before the surgery; the day I would come out of my cast and take my life back. Having spent two weeks locked within the confines of my own walls, seeing the outside world through limited squares of glass; the same view each day, changing significantly given the [...]

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Message from Beyond

Been under a great deal of stress of late; having learned that the pain in my leg is not just an increased level in pain, caused by a motorcycle accident I was involved in 1990, but rather a non-union fracture that I’ve been living with, unbeknownst to me, for the past nineteen years. The doctor [...]

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Empty

Just not feeling it today.
Didn’t feel it yesterday.
Tomorrow’s not lookin’ too good either.

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Starbucks and their double venti balls

Ever-faithful Starbucks lover and addict that I am; when my already exorbitant $5.20 drink skyrockets to a whopping $6.55, I know when to say enough is enough! And so even though I realize that my measly 3k a year contribution to the cause known simply as “Starbucks,” doesn’t amount to a drop in their corporate [...]

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