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Grandma’s Buttons
I “inherited” my paternal grandmother’s button collection. It is more of an accumulation than a curated collection. I’ve done something similar over the years. Toss a blouse that’s too worn to wear anymore, but snip off the buttons first because you never know when you might need just that button. These are milk glass. The…
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“Later” by Stephen King
Quite a few years ago now, I decided to see what all the hullabaloo was about Stephen King and his novels. I read quite a few of them. “The Green Mile” and “Lisey’s Story” stand out in my mind. And then I read “The Tommyknockers.” Okay, so I’d seen “Carrie” but always figured all that…
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Always Learning Something New
Something like 22 years ago, I learned a very basic technique for turning a cabochon, or marble, or just a rock out of the yard into a pendant. It used wire and was called wire wrapping. This is the very basic technique I learned all those years ago. This image is from a book titled…
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Higher States of Consciousness
Years ago, I mean really years ago, when I was a teenager, I had an experience that was mind bending. I’ve never used any kind of mind altering substances. I’ve never felt the need. So it wasn’t some sort of drug-induced hallucinogenic trip. I read an article a few mornings ago titled, “How Higher States…
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Quantum Entanglement
It was 2:40 in the morning. I was wide awake. I’d just had a hot flash with its attendant panic attack that woke me up. It’s that way for some women … the panic attacks. It was like that for my mom. She would look at me, wide-eyed and all flushed in the face, and…
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Embracing Chaos
It began with the hair at the nape of my neck. I don’t actually typify myself as a control freak. I can’t say how other people see me. But for sure, I like order. When I look back on my life, it’s easy to see that I always have preferred order. Even as a teenager…
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Selling on Etsy: A Personal Experience
I’m sure it’s different for everyone. But I’m also sure there are bound to be core issues that run across the board no matter what you are selling. When I first got the idea (actually, I think it was my husband’s idea but, in typical fashion, I took it and ran with it), it sounded…
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What No One Talks About
Last night, we watched an episode of “House, MD” on DVD. We bought the entire series a while back and have been working our way through it. The episode was from the seventh season and titled “Bombshells.” There was one scene, a patient (actually a main character) waking up from surgery, that brought to the…
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Dreaming of Winter
On days like today, when the temperature is close to 90 degrees, I find myself dreaming of winter. It’s been hot for a while now. Maybe not the hottest July in the history of Riverton, Wyoming, but if you asked my husband, he’d say it was. There is a certain sound the snow makes when…
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The Wonder of It All
I’m often amazed at how much the wild things remember. But maybe I shouldn’t be. Also, it might expose a human bias in my thinking … the amazement, that is. In any case, the sea gulls have figured out that I put food on our driveway every morning. The squirrels know to look in a…
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