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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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Susan Dromey Heeter is a writer from Dover who recently let her hair go au natural white. Writing has been her passion since her English majoring days at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Dromey Heeter has lived in The Netherlands, Alaska and currently basks in all things New England, including the frigid winters. An avid swimmer, Dromey Heeter’s great passion is to bring back body surfing as most children have no idea how to ride waves without ridiculous boogie boards.
Today I muse joyfully on taking hot showers, taking long walks, making meatballs, creating crafts and lounging on pillows.
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.
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.
My mom made whoopie pies – and while she’s been gone for decades now, I feel her next to me as I bake.
I collected the rocks, walking over thousands, picking up ones I thought might make the best creation.
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.
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.
Today I muse joyfully on pogoing, on jumping up and down, on counting, on owning not one but four pogo sticks.
An old boyfriend from college was next to my daughter’s fourth birthday party, my sister smiled in her wedding dress from 1994.
Unprecedented is a word that is used often lately – unprecedented pandemic, unprecedented wildfires, unprecedented politics. But today I muse joyfully on unprecedented kindness.