Category Archives: Florida

The Dog Mutterer

As many of you know, our family has owned at least one dog, continuously, for the past 31 years. Never have we ever had a walking issue with any of our previous dogs. Not even the mentally deficient dog who … Continue reading

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Good Friends on Both Ends

Married friends can be a curious lot. The wife of a couple can be a good friend of mine, but the husband of that couple may not necessarily be a good friend of Cliff’s and vice versa. The dynamics, when … Continue reading

Posted in Attitude, Blessings, Board Games, Christians, Disney, Disney World, Family, Florida, Food, Friends, Happiness, Home, House Guests, Humor, Husbands, Husbands and Wives, Life, Men and Women, Senior Moments, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Phoebe and Charlie Chaplin

42 years. That’s how long we’ve been married and in all of those 42 years we have been blessed to have raised 3 children and seen them married. They then blessed us with 7 grandchildren, all of them living within … Continue reading

Posted in Animals, Blessings, Books, Cats, Change, Christians, Dogs, Family, Florida, German Shepherd and Beagle, Grandchildren, Home, Humor, Husbands, Kittens, Life, Uncategorized, Yellow Lab and Treeing Walker Coonhound | Leave a comment

Weird Science

For the past 36 years, in one form or another, I have been a teacher. I began this journey when our now soon-to-be 40 year old son was 4 years old and carried on from there to our two daughters, … Continue reading

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“The Only Thing We Have to Fear…”

Remember the boogey-man? When I was a little girl, the boogeyman was real. Scary movies convinced me that he was lurking under my bed making me even more afraid of the dark than I already was. When I went to … Continue reading

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You Can Go Home Again

Recently, my husband and I went “home” again. Not the home we share “now,” we go there everyday. This is the home we shared “then”… After a brief apartment stay, this was the home we first lived in after we … Continue reading

Posted in Aging, America, Blessings, Childhood Home, Children, Christians, Cousins, Family, Florida, Friends, Getting Old, Gratefulness, Hearing Aids, Hiking, Home, Humor, Life, Love, Memories, New Jersey, Uncategorized, Vacation | 2 Comments

Hear Ye, Hear Ye?

When our kids were younger, we used to watch nighttime TV all huddled together in our bed. We did this because my sister-in-law, her husband and their 6 children, lived upstairs and our living room was below the kid’s bedroom. … Continue reading

Posted in Aging, Attitude, Challenges, Change, Childhood, Children, Erma Bombeck, Family, Fathers and Mothers, Florida, Generations, Grandchildren, Grandmother, Hearing, Hearing Aids, Hearing Loss, Humor, Life, Memories, Senior Moments, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Happy Birthday! Happy New Year!

“I’ve been thinking.” Whenever I say those words to my husband, he immediately responds with, “Uh-oh!” I realize that the thought of me thinking is a pretty big “Oi-Vey;” but, there’s a reason that I’m thinking. I just celebrated my … Continue reading

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Phoebe and Scrubs

Officially, his name is Oliver. Personally, I call him Scrubs and not for any reason you would probably guess. Like all of us, Scrubs has a beginning; unfortunately, nobody knows what that beginning is. And so, Scrubs’ beginning starts with … Continue reading

Posted in Animals, Attitude, Blessings, Caring, Cat Attitudes, Cats, Children, Christians, Courage, Dog walking, Dogs, Florida, Granddaughters, Growing Up, Humor, Kittens, Life, Names, Teachers, Teaching, Uncategorized, Walking, Yellow Lab and Treeing Walker Coonhound | Leave a comment

This is 20/20…

The term 20/20 has come to have a few different meanings. It can be the measurement of visual acuity, of course.  In the late 1970’s Barbara Walters was the co-host of a new show called 20/20, which is still on … Continue reading

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