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What’s Going On Again? Here, Have a Meatball
Today I muse joyfully on taking hot showers, taking long walks, making meatballs, creating crafts and lounging on pillows.
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Holiday Ornaments Make Fine New Friends
Tom Hanks had Wilson on his island in Castaway. I have my penguins who will stay after I’ve put most of the holiday decor away.
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The Best of Joyful Musings 2020
I wish you all a joyful 2021. Seize the day, musers, 2021: a blank slate. How perfect. Stay safe, musers, stay alive, stay curious, stay joyful.
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No Such Thing as Whoopie Pie Fatigue
My mom made whoopie pies – and while she’s been gone for decades now, I feel her next to me as I bake.
On the Rocks of Patience
I collected the rocks, walking over thousands, picking up ones I thought might make the best creation.
Living Dangerously with My Dover Library Grab Bag
At the Dover Library Book Sale, I put my confidence in those who orchestrated this yearly event, who sorted through books and media and created the oh so wonderful and oh so uncertain: Grab Bag.
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Taking a Cruise Inside Your Own Kitchen, How About Those Spoons
As more and more of us spend time inside, commuting from our bedrooms to our laptops, I muse joyfully on household trips, vacations and holidays that can transform our lives to jet-setting hotspots, exciting adventures, glorious travels.
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How Many Pogo Sticks Are Enough?
Today I muse joyfully on pogoing, on jumping up and down, on counting, on owning not one but four pogo sticks.
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Help, I’m Drowning in Old Photos
An old boyfriend from college was next to my daughter’s fourth birthday party, my sister smiled in her wedding dress from 1994.
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A World of Unprecedented Kindness
Unprecedented is a word that is used often lately – unprecedented pandemic, unprecedented wildfires, unprecedented politics. But today I muse joyfully on unprecedented kindness.