PROCTOR DISTRICT ART FESTIVAL
31 days ago
The Proctor Arts Festival was this weekend and they had their annual art competition at Mason Church. I entered my sock monkeys, which were hilarious. One was Zebulon and the other Zerena. Zere…
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A Jewish Orthodox wedding
89 days ago
The Jewish wedding in Chicago that I attended was really great. This was an Orthodox Jewish wedding so it was full of tradition. Synagogue services went on for about three days prior with someth…
Egypt
236 days ago
Live and let live
240 days ago
I was just thinking about a friend of mine who holds some rigid thoughts and my conclusion is to not bring up topics that set him in motion….i.e. Hollywood, the military, faith of any kind,…
Persnickety Penelope hears again from the paranormal creep
253 days ago
Persnickety Penelope was startled one October afternoon while she was cleaning the living room. She heard something crash in her dining room, just a few steps away. So Persnickety Penelope went …
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Damn Stupid Blond Bombshell
342 days ago
So we decided to go out to dinner at this Mexican place on North Proctor. I noticed the parking by the alley in front of the store next to the restaurant was free. So I turned into the alley nex…
Albuquerque
365 days ago
We just got back from the Hispanic Bar Convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We had fun. I bought some fun things in Old Town, real treasures, like this spiny oyster and opal necklace that has …
How I met my husband
404 days ago
I met David at Madigan Army Medical Center, where he was the Staff Judge Advocate. He was 25 years old and I was too. I went to a meeting there, a tad late [on purpose…] and looked around …
To Maryland and back, lickety-split.
412 days ago
My husband has a nice job now with the Social Security Administration. He’s their Regional Attorney and supervises 27 attorneys in four states. The federal offices for Social Security are …
End of the week musings
461 days ago
Well it’s Friday, the end of the week. I had fun this week, inbetween feeling like a hedge hog rolling down a steep hill. Ah, but it is Friday and that means it’s about to be a weeke…