I was recently asked why do you write your blog, what is the purpose? To be honest, right now it is in its’ infancy and I’m not sure in what direction it will go. I love the Villages, I love to write, I enjoy writing about the past, but the present is really fun with […]
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Thirst for knowledge…
My thirst for knowledge went way overboard this week, and not so sure I should share this, but I will. I love the Lifelong Learning College and have attended quite a few classes there, from art to writing, from Kabbalah to self-improvement. Some I have taken because I want to get better at certain things, some because I want […]
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One of the first things I remember being taught was my name. The first name came easy, as I had heard it for many years, but there came an age when it became important for me to know my last name. Along with my last name I had to remember my address, or where I […]
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Did you ever give much thought to the phrase Gone Fishing. I have and I am puzzeld. If you’ve gone shopping you come back with your purchases. If you’ve gone golfing you come back happy or mad, depending on your score. Gone to the barber, you come back with less hair and so on. But […]
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I had my first child, a boy. Times were very different then..every mother looked like Betty Crocker and the babies all looked like the Gerber baby. Whenever you asked someone how their baby was, they would say wonderful, the baby’s fine, couldn’t be better. Everything was beautiful. All families were like Ozzie and Harriet, and this […]
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I can’t believe it happened to me. For the past several summers we have been returning to the lake community we had retired to, and rented a home for a month. (Sean makes it through two to three weeks and then has Village withdrawal and has to get back, and that’s OK) It has been wonderful, […]
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Statistics is an all encompassing word. It just doesn’t seem like something I might want or need to know, maybe because it sometimes is referred to as the cold hard facts, or another way to say the low down. A statistic proves something, could be good or could be not so good. Do we need, or […]
Read the rest of this entry »Carole who???
Exercise Carole. If you live in The Villages long enough, you know exactly what I am saying. We tend to tag our friends’ names, so everyone will know who we are referring to. Before moving here my friends were Lynn, Jo, Patti, Carol, Bernice, Rossa, Karen etc. If I spoke of Patti everyone knew […]
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Meet in the Courageous Room at Lake Miona Recreation Center. It is so fitting that the Wannabe Writers meet in the Courageous Room. I find it takes courage to write. I don’t know if all people who write need encouragement, but I know I don’t feel good about my writing, but I get a lot […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Tale of the Pocketbook Receipts…
People who know me, know I carry a very small pocketbook. I do that because I have found that no matter what size pocketbook I use, they become filled to capacity. The bigger they are, the heavier they get, so I stick to small. I have tried, from time to time, to emulate men and put […]
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