A dear old friend and neighbor that I met when I moved to Virginia Beach over 20 years ago lost her son yesterday. He was 26 years old. He and my boys played together, went to school together, grew up together. It saddens my heart deeply that my friend has suffered such [...]

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My baby is getting married tomorrow!! And he couldn’t be more excited! Or more thrilled! Or more anxious! He’s just beaming. He can not wait! Not a nervous bone in his body.
Me – knock me over with a feather. Still. Kinda numb. Head spinning a bit. [...]

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In my attempt to organize all my photos from the last jillion years, I periodically spend an enormous amount of time scanning, editing and filing pictures away on my external hard drive. This has been the case this past week. After work, after my dose of The Young And The Restless, after dinner [...]

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Well, my boy’s birthday weekend went by like a flash. But then so has the last 25 years, so why am I not surprised that a few days seemed like minutes. Time is really getting away with me and I feel all kinds of out of control. Birthdays blending together, work weeks [...]

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Twenty five years ago today, I was married to my children’s father who was in the Navy and on a ship whose homeport was Yokosuka, Japan – the other side of the globe. I, however, was back home in Mississippi nine days overdue to give birth to our first baby. To say that [...]

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The OLD thing that I talked about earlier in the week comes into play HERE.  Because you see, when I made my Blueberry Cobbler last week, it sent me down memory lane.  It always does.  And you know what?  That lane is getting longer and LONGER and L.O.N.G.E.R.  I can’t believe it’s been 24 years [...]

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This past weekend was absolutely BEAUTIFUL here in the VA Beach area!!
If you’ve read this blog for more than a week, you KNOW how much I love beautiful weather and how much it refreshes my soul. Well, this past weekend, while the sun was shining and the birds were chirping. . . [...]

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It never ceases to amaze me – this modern technology thing called the Internet.  It started out innocently enough with the home computer and email.  Then came chatrooms where you could meet people online with similar interests and such.  I never “chatted” with anyone.  To me, it was still new and scary.  However, my boss [...]

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I wake up every day with all these brilliant ideas of things I’d love to blog about.  Ideas run through my head all the way to work.  I talk to myself making mental notes hoping that if I run it through the gray matter long enough that maybe it’ll stick until I get home to [...]

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Some things in life you never forget. . . your first bicycle, your first boyfriend, your first car, your first apartment, your first baby, your second baby. . . you get my drift.  Well, twenty-three years ago today, my second baby was born, and for sure, it would be a day like none other not [...]

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