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Ping Pong

Ping Pong

March 2, 2016

I’ve been playing a nice little game of Ping Pong in my head lately.Back and forth and back and forth and back and forth. Oh Yes I Can.Oh No I Can’t. I love what I’m doing.WHY am I doing ?!? Stop this nonsense.Continue. No one cares.I care & I swear, I swore off doubting a …

This Flippin Cord

This Flippin Cord

February 24, 2016

There is a room in my house that’s been designated as my office.But, actually, it’s more like my traveling office.Card table, comfy chair, laptop, miscellaneous this and that’s. The card table is because every once in awhile I like to move.Sometimes I’d rather be upstairs, sometimes down.I adjust my office according to my mood but, …

Game Changer

Game Changer

February 23, 2016

It doesn’t happen all that often but when it does, it’s a doozy& yesterday was my doozy. Things annoyed me.BIG TIME& don’t ask me why because I don’t know why.They just did.ok ??They. Just. Did. The guy on tv, the girl at the store, the neighbors, a few someones I have never even met …Yeah.You …

Hidden No More

Hidden No More

February 15, 2016

I recently found a notebook of poems.Poems that I wrote when I was in my late teens, early twenties.Poems that I preferred stay hidden away. Show them to people ?!?!!??No. Way.noooooo wayyyyyyyyy.I’ll write them and hide them is what I’ll do.Is what I did. Somewhere down the road though, the writer in me woke up.Spoke …

Dinnnnnn errrrrr

Dinnnnnn errrrrr

February 12, 2016

They had a dinner bell.A big, black dinner bell.They clanked it in the evening& every child who belonged in that house scurried on home for dinner. I was jealous.What a cool bell.Wish we had one. Clank. Clank. No dinner bell at our house.Nope.We would get a good ol holler out the door. “Call  (fill in …

Hiya

Hiya

February 1, 2016

Smiles.Here, there, everywhere I look I see smiles.Jumping out at me is what they are doing& I say … YaY.I love when things like this happen.The universe is smiling, and I love a smiling universe ! So as I’m walking my walk the other day, I’m noticing all the smiles.In the clouds and on the …

Love, Lorraine

Love, Lorraine

January 27, 2016

I think I’ve made it quite obvious that I am a true blue believer of signs.Signs from loved ones.Signs from the universe.Signs that all is ok with this world. Signs, signs everywhere a sign. But, I’ll bet you didn’t know that I’m a greeting card hoarder.It’s true.I don’t know what it is about folded cardboard …

Googled

Googled

January 26, 2016

I’m pretty sure I have said this one million times but, here’s one more.Just in case. Google.I am obsessed with Google. It’s true. It’s because I have questions.Lots and lots and lots of questions& thankfully, Google has every single one my answers. You know how Google has that little area that says ‘View Search History’ …

It’s Windy

It’s Windy

January 23, 2016

I made it back to my walking trail yesterday.YaY& yep, it was pretty darn chilly out there but, soooooo worth the layering up.That quiet stillness gets me every time. ahhhhhhhh. Before I can get to my favorite portion of the park though, I must walk parallel to a busy road& since I am a counterclockwise …

Giving Blood

Giving Blood

January 20, 2016

I’m donating blood today & that’s a good thing, a really, really good thing to do. But yes, I’ll admit, at first I was a bit perturbed & yep, I guess I did have an attitude. I felt as if I was bumped, demoted, second string. You see, I’m more in the habit of handing …

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