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A Little Spontaneity and a Bouquet of Tulips Bust Those Blahs
And today, dear musers, are ways you too might enjoy mid-winter pick me ups that carry you through ice storms, Covid, winter blahs.
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Snowball Fight in Portsmouth, Just For the Hearty
Today I muse joyfully on some of the heartiest New Englanders who I witnessed at a Portsmouth snowball fight, an unofficial event after Saturday’s blizzard that brought young and old out to fling some snowballs, laugh under a blue sky on Market Square.
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Musing Joyfully on January
I muse joyfully on this frigid, frigid January day, on the ice so deep I can skate, on my flannel sheets, on blankets around the house, on the mittens and hats strewn around so the outside is cozy, is doable, is January.
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Celebrating a New Year, a New Skill, Yeah Hope
New is such a fabulous, hopeful word – it’s NEW, it’s fresh, it’s not been used ever before.
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Having a ‘Donner Party’ Christmas
Did I just eat someone’s leg? That is, dear musers, much more than a mishap, but literally a life choice – to live or die, to survive or not.
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‘Tis the Season of Weirdos
Are you a weirdo? Have you ever been referred to as one? Are your friends, acquaintances, neighbors weirdos?
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Celebrate December: Remember To Fill Your Own Tank
Gifts for others is paramount this time of year, but as I reflect upon the past twelve months, I think of those moments where I filled my own tank with gas thereupon making it far easier to be just a little kinder, a little more patient, a little bit of a better me.
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To Cake or Not To Carrot Cake
But then, as I waited to pay, I came eye to eye with the Carrot Cake, the cake so beautiful, so gloriously displayed, I bought it. And, dear musers, there was no occasion, no celebration, no fanfare. It was simply a rainy Thursday in early December: a delicious and perfect day to cake.
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A Thanksgiving Salute To Teachers
Today I muse joyfully that those teachers will sit down at a Thanksgiving meal knowing they are working incredibly hard, in incredibly challenging times, in moments that try the souls of even the heartiest and most learned of people.