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Happy New Year 5775

2014 has been an string of difficult health-related issues. Every time I would think that things couldn’t get worse, they would. As I was gasping for air in hopes of some relief, I was thinking that if I were Jewish, the “year” would soon be over. I’m so ready for 5774 to be done! It […]

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Poetry

We are exposed to poetry from the moment we are born. Lullabys and nursery rhymes are poetry of some sort. We are initially led to believe that poetry rhymes in iambic pentameter. We digest Dr Seuss books in his unique poetic phrasing. I had to memorize Robert Frost’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

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Fairytale Evening

The annual Lotusland fundraiser was called Once Upon a Time. It was a fairytale based extravaganza with as many people preparing, serving, and acting, as there were attending. When we arrived, trays of cocktails were available: wine, champagne, martinis, lady slippers. Yum. “Stations” of fairytales were interspersed in the garden where kids, teens and adults

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2013 Wrap-up

I read my 2012 wrap-up and the one sentence that stands out is I can start 2013 with the hope of a triathlon in August.” So sad the year progressed the way it did. General notes: Because I document my books and walking on-line, Goodreads and Map My Walk so generously offered me a cumulative

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