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The Captain
From the moment we walked towards the empty dock on the Banana River, I knew this experience was going to be different. Scheduled to leave in 20 minutes, there was no boat. A little panicked, as I had invited my sister-in-law and her husband to join us, I called. A pleasant older man answered, and…
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A Full-On Fairy Tale
This story started five years ago when I shared the following in a blog post: July 2020: In a few short days, I will join the millions of people who live and thrive in the sexagenarian decade. I’ll be wandering into the land of early bird specials and receiving Medicare postcards in the mail. I’m…
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A Crazy Connection
When I read Vicki Atkinson’s post last Sunday on how she took a writing class from author Libby Fischer Hellmann, I practically leapt from my chair. Libby? I knew Libby from the late 1990s onward when our children were in the same schools together. And even more than that, I had been in the middle…
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A Piece of My Fantasy
Am I a carnival nerd? Maybe. I went online to buy stamps a few months back and saw this new collection. I immediately placed them in my cart. How can you ignore beautiful images of a carnival at night with a dozen moving colors inside a Ferris Wheel or the beckoning lights of the Midway?…
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One Amazing Adventure
Our next-door neighbors, who are in their late 80s, still take ocean cruises regularly. Miyoko always explains to me upon their return, “I don’t cook, so we have to go!” She’s a very funny lady. One day, I ran into her husband Ed and he told me that their latest cruise had taken them to…
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A One-of-a-Kind Stroke of Midnight
Yesterday marked the 25th New Year’s Day since the world witnessed the dawn of a new millennium. Wow. Just saying that conjures up a feeling of a magnificent gift; a gift fated to us as we were born in an age where we would step over that threshold into the next one thousand years. It’s…
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Milton
Ten days ago, I was thinking about an entirely different story for today’s post, when my husband and I realized that the hurricane in the Gulf would not curve left or right as they sometimes do. At some level, it was going to hit the entire state of Florida. I will clarify that we do…
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A Little Faith & The DeLorean 2.0
For long-time readers, do not be alarmed by the word DeLorean. You are not in a time warp traveling back to the future. Or, maybe you are? After some thought, I am re-posting a story I wrote four years ago. My decision to do it is based partly on the fact that Memorial Day weekend…
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August 2017: An Eclipse Sighting
The idea of experiencing a transitory, rare occurrence fascinates me, and I know I’m not alone. When our calendars inched closer to the new millennium, I read how cruise lines were offering once-in-a-lifetime trips, taking passengers to the mid-Pacific right up to the International Dateline where they could be the first to tip their toes…
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The Power of Imprinting
Back in the mid-1990’s, I remember shopping one day in a Best Buy. There were rows of boxes lined all the way down the aisle; stacked on slanted display shelves for easy title viewing. Each box held a compact disc; a disc which might become the perfect game for our shiny new computer. “Should I…
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