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National Poetry Month, 2025. Day 11, Cascade

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  • Posted on April 11, 2025

Waterfalls are soothing, inspiring, and sometimes triggering. Today’s post is brief. I wrote (and said)…

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Straying From A Routine. It’s Good For You.

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  • Posted on January 20, 2023

Usually, on Friday, I write a poem and post it to the Poetry Friday group…

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Poetry Friday: Poetry & Alzheimer’s Disease

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  • Posted on July 16, 2022July 16, 2022

We paused our unpacking last week to go visit my parents in New York. I’ve…

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Daily Reflective Writing is Good for Your Mental Health

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  • Posted on June 23, 2022

Recently, I finished Anna Quindelin’s Write For Your Life (2022). It was a great read…

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Aging and Discrimination in Today’s Society

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  • Posted on April 13, 2022

Lately, I’ve become concerned with blatant discrimination toward our elderly. Early on in my nursing…

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Sunny Saturday

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  • Posted on April 9, 2022April 9, 2022

After a somewhat downtrodden post yesterday, I am upbeat and optimistic today. Many of my…

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Silent Sunday: Taking a Break from the Fringe

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  • Posted on March 13, 2022

Today is Silent Sunday. On Sundays I post photographs of my own on a theme…

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COVID Blahs – Not in the Mood

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  • Posted on March 5, 2022

I’m not in the mood to write today. Yesterday, I felt good, as though I…

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The Simple Truth: I’m Not Good at Transitions

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  • Posted on March 1, 2022March 1, 2022

Last night, for the first night in a while, I had trouble falling asleep. I…

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Repost: Outliers and the Gifted

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  • Posted on January 23, 2022

Today, I am offering a repost of a very early post I made when my…

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