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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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SyZyGy
Syzygy (SIZ-eh-gee): Either of two points in the orbit of the moon when the moon lies in a straight line with the sun and the earth. As in an eclipse. When I was very young, my mom enjoyed solving crossword puzzles. She knew more obscure words than I thought it was possible to know. But…
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SyZyGy Jewelry
Maddie’s Mom not only writes, she also makes jewelry. I’ve been making jewelry for nearly 30 years. I began with stringing seed beads. They were cheap and colorful and a lot of fun. I made necklaces and bracelets. But then, I wanted to add pendants. I’d been collecting shale locally (lived in Arizona at the…
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I had Diarrhea and Became a Genius
I read an article a few days ago. A lot of my posts start that way. I read something that makes me think and then I have to write about it. I take no credit for the title of this post. My husband suggested it after I told him what I had read. The article…
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Vanity?
I spent a large portion of my early adult life looking in mirrors and any reflective surface that was handy. I checked my makeup (laboriously applied), hair (fussed over) and clothes (were they still arranged neatly?) whenever the opportunity presented itself. I realized some many years later that just like I was not lazy, as…
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Wyoming State of Mind
It’s not something that can easily be put into words. It’s a feeling. I once had a counselor who would ask me where in my body I “felt” a particular feeling/emotion. It would cause me to look more deeply inside myself. I’d search out the source as if, once finding it, I’d have the key…
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