A Day In The Life

People, Places, Nature, LIFE!

03/12/2014
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Daily Prompt: Crossroads

The Daily Prompt: Life is a series of beginnings and endings. We leave one job to start another; we quit cities, countries, or continents for a fresh start; we leave lovers and begin new relationships. What was the last thing you contemplated leaving? What were the pros and cons? Have you made up your mind? […]

03/10/2014
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Daily Prompt: The Heat is On-Pressure

The Daily Prompt asks: Do you thrive under pressure or crumble at the thought of it? Does your best stuff surface as the deadline approaches or do you need to iterate, day after day to achieve something you’re proud of? Tell us how you work best.  I don’t thrive under pressure, nor do I crumble […]

03/09/2014
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Daily Prompt: My Town

The Daily Prompt asks:  What do you love most about the city / town / place that you live in? What do you like the least about it?  I still live in the town I grew up in- I have been here since 1962. Never left, ever. Moved from the house I grew up in, […]

03/07/2014
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Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge

I took this photo on my last visit to New York’s Museum Of Modern Art It is Méret Oppenheim’s best known piece.  The sculpture consists of a teacup, saucer and spoon that the artist covered with fur from a Chinese gazelle Join in the Fun!  

03/07/2014
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100 Posts!

I have reached 100! I started blogging on December 1, 2013, and this is my 100th post. I had no idea what blogging was really all about, I just thought it might be helpful to put my thoughts in writing, it might make some things clearer for me to understand, allow me to get things […]

03/06/2014
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Odd Man Out

We have an upcoming weekend family celebration, with my husband’s side of the family. Friday evening through Saturday evening. My husband has one brother, he and his wife will be there along with their 4 children, and 16 grandchildren. My sister in law’s 3 siblings will be there too. And then there will be me […]

03/05/2014
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Share Your World-Cee’s Challenge

Share Your World – 2014 Week 9 Cee’s Share Your World Challenge This week’s questions  are all about your dream house, real or imagined Would you prefer a reading nook or an art, craft, photography studio? Craft studio for sure. I always seem to have unfinished projects all over- knitting, quilting, jewelry, needlepoint. Would you prefer the […]

03/04/2014
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Daily Prompt: Against All Odds

The Daily Prompt says: Tell us about a situation where you’d hoped against all hope, the odds were stacked against you, yet you triumphed.  I broke my left elbow last year. I smashed the little knobby that sticks out- it is called the olecranon- to bits. It took a plate and six screws to put it […]

03/03/2014
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Barns in Black and White Challenge

Sunday Stills: Barns in Black and White This barn is located in Neversink, NY I took the photo while walking the beautiful roads in the Catskill Mountains of NY The barns throughout this area have “barn quilt panels” designed and painted by local volunteers and barn owners. Read about Barn Quilt Panels  Here Join the Challenge Here!

03/02/2014
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Daily Prompt: Daily Chores

The Daily Prompt asks:  We all have jobs, tasks, and chores that we dislike doing. Tell us all about the least favorite job/task/chore that you get stuck doing routinely. What is it about this duty that you can’t stand? I love to cook. I usually spend one day cooking a lot of different things, that […]

02/28/2014
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Daily Prompt: Twilight Zone

This is a re post for me – but I felt it fit in with the Daily Prompt today, which asked: Ever have an experience that felt surreal, as though you’d been suddenly transported into the twilight zone. Six degrees of separation is the theory that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction, […]

02/28/2014
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My Father, Myself

Today would have been my father’s birthday. He died 9 years ago. I think of him often. Are we who we are because of genetics? environment? a combination of both? As I have grown older I have to come to realize I am my father’s daughter most certainly. So much of who I am, the […]

02/26/2014
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Accepting The Things I Cannot Change

Today is my step daughter Becky’s birthday. She is 31. She was 6 when her parent’s divorced. She was 8 when I married her father. Looking back, it has been quite a journey. Her mother has never remarried to this day, and wrote the book on how not to behave when you get divorced. Unfortunately, […]

02/22/2014
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Daily Prompt: Tainted Love

The Daily Prompt asks: Ever been dumped by a boyfriend or girlfriend? Was it a total surprise, or something you saw coming? Tell us your best worst breakup story. Even today, some 33 years later, I look back and find it hard to believe it was what it was. First love, youth, infatuation. Me: needing […]

02/16/2014
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Daily Prompt: Don’t You Forget About Me

The Daily Prompt asks: At the end of your life,what sort of legacy will you leave? Describe the lasting effect you want to have on the world, after you’re gone. This is something I think about a lot. I don’t have children, so maybe that is part of the reason. Getting older, and losing people […]

02/11/2014
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The Evil Eye

Before leaving the house to go to a wedding, dressed in one of my nicer outfits, my mother in law would ask me, “Are you wearing something red?” Do you have on a red bendel?” (ribbon) “You look too good, it will bring out people’s jealousy and they’ll give you an ayin hara.” (Evil Eye) […]

02/10/2014
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Choosing Death

I read a thought provoking article in the NY Times, titled Aid In Dying. It is about a man who has a heart problem and has already undergone an open heart surgery, but needs another, which he does not want to do. The state in which he lives does not allow Doctor assisted “aid in […]

02/02/2014
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The Selfie

I started going through the photos in my cell phone today- I try to “clean up” and delete what I don’t need taking up space in my phone or the duds. I usually do this while I am waiting in line at the grocery store, or at a Doctors appointment- passes the time. As I was […]