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Down to the wire...
The bad news is we are only halfway to our goal of paying off the lien before the county auctions off our paid for (no mortgage) home. The GOOD news is that a benefactor has stepped forward and offered to match each donation we get from now on. There is hope ( Read more... ) -
We need your help networking this...
We've fallen on hard times. When Chris got an inheritance, we sunk most of it into paying off our home in full. Then I had medical issues and the rest of our money was gone. Chris lost his job and we couldn't pay our taxes last year, then the county sent in a crew to clear out our overgrown back yard, and charged us $3000 as a lien against the ( Read more... ) -
I was asked if I thought aliens were real...
Frankly, I'd be surprised if there isn't alien life elsewhere in the cosmos. It's a virtual certainty, and just this week NASA announced it had found water AND unknown organic compounds on Mercury, the planet closest to the sun. Here we thought our rovers on Mars would find organics first! Also this week a planet 45 light years away appears to be ( Read more... ) -
Happy New Year Y'all
Goals for 2012: get out of bed daily, exercise and strengthen legs and arms, stick to my mostly vegetarian lifestyle (notice I didn't call it a diet), lose weight, sell at least one of my eight completed novels, write a new novel, travel for pleasure instead of doctor appointments *grin*, get rid of clutter (house cancer), encourage my husband in ( Read more... ) -
Wow...the Holidays Are Upon Us Already
Where does the time go? The old fourth dimension (that river we call time) somehow manages to zip on by several magnitudes faster from Thanksgiving to Christmas. And here I am still crocheting things and ordering gifts ( Read more... ) -
Happy Birthday to LaVerne
Today is my mom's 82nd birthday. I'm so proud of her and happy that she's still a vibrant and active lady. We chat often on the phone, for almost an hour each time, and it's always a pleasure. We talk about books we've read, people we've met, and the state of the world and our health (or lack thereof). *grin ( Read more... ) -
Catch-up Time!
I've been spending too much time in FaceBook and the virtual worlds of Second Life and Avination, and got a tweak from Angie Reed Garner, who shares my birthdate, so figured it's time long overdue to check in here ( Read more... ) -
I made it to another year...
Yesterday was my 61st birthday. I'm just thrilled to be around to celebrate it. My health hasn't been the best over the past year, but I'm working on improving that, and I count my blessings, which are without number ( Read more... ) -
From the Strange-But-True Department...
The BBC World Service are having entirely too much fun these days. Remember when thousands of blackbirds in Arkansas started dropping deader than disco from the heavens? Our cousins across the Pond recently referred to it in a broadcast as "The A-flock-alypse." And as to why Arkansas, allusions were made to some form of karmic retribution for the ( Read more... ) -
My daughter...
She's 29, has a doctor of divinity in pastoral counseling, is fighting ovarian cancer and winning, is engaged to a fabulous man, and best of all...she's my daughter, Michelle. Just thought you should know.
The rest, as they say in Facebook, is complicated. LOL!