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On the Therapeutic Efficacy of Applying Osculatory Pressure to Wounds
A while back, I saw online a number of items about kissing boo-boos. I was unable to find even an abstract for the study that prompted the flurry of reporting. All the reporting agencies presented the story with almost the exact same wording, so the parent study is out there somewhere. Even so, I am…
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Catastrophic Failure of the Cat Distribution System
The CDS (Cat Distribution System) doesn’t always get it right. Sadly. The tuxedo cat we named Mouse, is not a stray after all. After months of her coming around and hanging out, buying her a heated cat house, putting a tag on her collar asking to let me know if she had a home and…
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Wee Ones First
Today’s writing prompt is “What are your morning rituals?” The first thing I do is feed the cats. They are always hungriest. Our dog gets fed a little later. She’s more polite and waits relatively patiently. Then I get dressed and make my own breakfast. My husband, on work days, gets up before I do…
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Mouse
I wrote about stray cats a while back in an article titled “Stray Cats.” Mainly I was writing about one in particular that we had named Mouse. I explained why we couldn’t take her into our household. Also about buying a heated cat house and what we had to do to get Mouse to use…
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Starry Night on Turquoise Mountain
No, I do not name everything I make. That would be crazy. I’m up to number 1,609 in necklaces, earrings, bracelets and anklets, and that doesn’t count all the stuff made involving a torch. But there are a few that make such a memorable experience of creation for me that I just have to give…
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Stray Cats
There are a lot of stray cats where we live now. Where we used to live, stray cats didn’t last long … large coyote population. I hear a coyote now and then. Maybe a handful of times in the four plus years we’ve lived here. Where we were before, it was nightly. I put a…
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Business Cards
Seems like it should be such a simple thing. We ordered some business cards from a local print shop. First clue they might not be very high quality was when they said they could only use a pdf. I’d taken a thumb drive with the card saved as a jpeg. So I went home and…
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Making Earrings
Making earrings is just about the most fun. Well, for me anyway. The average set of earrings doesn’t usually take me more than a half an hour to make. But it can take me longer than that to select the materials. Mainly because I tend to get distracted by all the pretty beads and findings.…
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Nothing is Ever as Easy
“Oh, it’s a snap. You just do this, this and this and you’re done.” Those words are often heard from people who have done a thing a thousand times. They’ve become so proficient at the thing that they don’t remember when it was difficult and they had no real idea just what the hell they…
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Authenticity
For my 56th birthday in 2008, my husband took me out to eat. I fixed my hair and put on some make up. I put on a nice dress and selected pearls for my jewelry. Bernd had already moved the car out of the garage, so I went out the front door. As I was…
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