A Day In The Life

People, Places, Nature, LIFE!

06/16/2014
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Cee’s Share Your World

Cee’s Share Your World  Asks: What makes you feel the most secure? Being home. I like to be in my house, in familiar surroundings, with my friends nearby. If you were a shoe, what kind would you be and why? A comfortable flat. Easy going, comfy, not tense like a narrow heel might make you […]

06/02/2014
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Cee’s Share Your World

Cee’s Share Your World asks this week: Regarding animals would you prefer not having them around or having domestics pets, farm animals, or seeing them in nature or the zoo? I have always had pets, cats for many years, and then after I was married we adopted our cocker spaniel, Sammy, who had been left […]

05/30/2014
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Climbing A Mountain

The school year is coming to an end. I work as an assistant in a first grade boy’s class. There are only 12 boys in the class as all need a little extra attention in order to be ready for 2nd grade. It has been a year of growth not only for the boys, but […]

05/28/2014
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Hello In There

My niece is 15 and has started playing the guitar. While away with her parents visiting friends this week, they attended a large dinner party, and after dinner the guests asked her to bring out her guitar and sing. My sister told me how proud she was of her daughter. It reminded me of my own […]

05/26/2014
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Feet and Soul

Reflexology is the application of pressure to specific points and areas on the feet, hands, or ears, using specific thumb, finger, and hand techniques. Reflexologists believe that these areas and reflex points correspond to different body organs and systems, and that pressing them has a beneficial effect on the organs and a person’s general health. […]

05/25/2014
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Awards are Awesome

How nice to find I have been asked to accept two awards, given to me by Arlene at Arl’s World. I highly recommend you make a visit to her blog if you have not already. Her photos are fabulous, and her recipes always look enticing. She has awarded me the The Sisterhood of the World Bloggers […]

05/21/2014
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Cee’s Share Your World

Cee once again asks four interesting questions of her blogging friends. Here are this week’s If you could go back and visit any time period, what time would you travel to and why? I love the clothing (except the corsets!) of the Edwardian Period, as shown in the Aristocratic family depicted in Downton Abbey. The […]

05/18/2014
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Blaming the World for the Choices We Make

Many of us make choices when we are young that eventually will define who we will become. The chosen path will set the course of our life, and will  follow us through our lives. The college that is chosen, (or not), the major in college that will  lead to being either able or unable to find employment. […]

05/13/2014
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Outlook On Life in 7 Words or Less

Cee’s Share Your World asked the question: Describe your own outlook on life in seven words or less These are some of the responses I liked and wanted to share. Click them to read the entire post response Life is too short to be unforgiving. We are all doomed, so let’s party! There is not […]

05/13/2014
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Cee’s Share Your World

Every week Cee at Cee’s Photography asks 4 questions of fellow bloggers, so we can learn a little more about one another. Here are this week’s: Do you prefer shopping or going to a park? Tough one, because I do love going to a park- but I would have to say shopping. I am an […]

05/12/2014
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Weekly Photo Challenge-On The Move

There are two County Parks in our area that are connected by a walking trail. The walk is 6 miles long from park to park, and passes through 4 towns, winding through the woods, passing by a waterfall and through fields. We walked the 6 miles from one park to the other, and then back […]

05/10/2014
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Happy I’m Not A Mother Day

My BFF and I both chose not to have children, and re dubbed Mother’s Day “Happy I’m Not A Mother Day” years ago. We both married in our 30’s, and had no burning desire (no desire at all really) to have children. No “biological urge.” I didn’t feel my life would be less without children in […]

05/09/2014
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Breathing- Don Charisma’s Prompt

Breathing- Don Charisma’s Prompt I started taking Yoga years ago in an attempt to manage stress, and find some “calm.”  High strung by nature, I was my own worst enemy in terms of getting worked up over things, overwrought over things and just generally blowing things out of proportion and later regretting it. It was […]

05/08/2014
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Vulnerability

Vulnerability – Don Charisma’s Prompt Definition: Susceptible to physical or emotional attack or harm. In need of special care, support, or protection because of age, disability, or risk of abuse or neglect. Vulnerability can present itself in many forms. It can be physical: a person who is elderly, someone who is very young, someone who […]

05/08/2014
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Remembering A Friend

Along with my daily routine of reading the New York Times, is turning to the obituary page to read the “featured” obits- those of famous or note worthy people who have died. These obits can be very interesting, and I am often fascinated by the lives many have led. I will then scan the smaller […]

05/07/2014
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IBQ Writing Prompt: What is Happiness?

IBQ Writing Prompt: What is Happiness?  The prompt asks: How do you define happiness? How do you identify that elusive emotion, that visceral feeling, is it an emotion, a neurochemical impulse, a smile, or the end result of another feeling like contentment or satisfaction or freedom? What is happiness for you? Can we hang on […]

05/06/2014
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Daily Prompt: Pick Me Up

The Daily Prompt asks: What is the one word or phrase that immediately cheers you up when you hear it? I am an early riser, usually between 5:30 and 6 am. I immediately go down to the kitchen and make a cup of coffee. My husband usually gets up a little later, but everyday, when […]