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A New Year
The calendar says that it is a brand new year today. A lot of folks will use this as an opportunity to start a new plan for life. That’s a great thing. However, don’t let your new you be dependent on the calendar. If you start today, go You! If you start tomorrow or somewhere…
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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas everyone! Thanks for stopping by to see what your MoM might have to say on the holiday. Remember that once you clear out all of the tinsel and wrapping paper, there are still things to be joyous about. Look for the joy in life. Notice if the people around you are finding it.…
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Different Rooms
This morning finds your MoM in Las Vegas. I’m not a fan of Las Vegas, per se, however one of my friends had a business trip to take and asked me to tag along, so here I am. When I got up, I wanted some coffee so I ambled into the living room (Donny got…
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I’ll Bring it To You
I went to my local coffee shop to get some writing done this morning. When I went to the counter I found out that my favorite brew had just been started so it would be a few minutes before it was ready. Having worked at said coffee joint for a number of years I understand…
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“Do you want this Seat?”
I got to my “office” at Starbucks early today. Not like crack of dawn early, more like 7:30. Still, that’s earlier than a self employed writer/prison minister needs to be up in my humble opinion! I figured I’d beat the crowd. Recently there have been people sitting in my spot. The nerve! Today I arrived…
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Curbs
Many of you probably know that your MoM writes most of these from the cozy corner table at Starbucks. I’m tucked into the corner so that anyone who approaches can’t sneak up on me. I call it my “Godfather Table”. Sometimes I have to take a different seat and wait until my place opens up,…
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Santa!
I got a FaceTime call from my grand kids yesterday. This is nothing unusual. If one of them grabs a phone, they know exactly how to accomplish a call to Papa. This particular call came from inside a shopping cart. The plastic cells walls of their mobile prison were immediately identifiable. I came to learn…
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I Can’t Hear You
This morning finds your MoM sitting with his Mom in a waiting room. She keeps asking us to repeat ourselves because she can’t hear us. She is not wearing her hearing aids…again… Now, this was her decision, as it always is, but she’s decided that it is the fault of her audiologist and their office…
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Ouch!
Sometimes we get into habits and everything seems normal. My youngest grandson in Hawaii loves to climb up on his parents’ bed and do what can accurately be described as a Death/Trust Fall. He makes sure that you are watching, then stands up straight and tilts backward until gravity takes over and he falls. Plop!…
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Change in Latitude
With all due respect to Jimmy Buffett, I’m sitting at Starbucks on a Monday morning trying to come up with a blog topic. What’s new, right? Well, for one thing, I’m looking out the window of this Starbucks and seeing palm trees and the Pacific Ocean. Not exactly the parking lot in the middle of…
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