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Wordless Wednesday: Smiley Face’s Evil Twin

Wordless Wednesday on Thursday.

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I Always Prided Myself on Dialogue Until Today

Today I read a post which was an entire chapter […]

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How to Fit/Cram NaNoWriMo into a Busy Schedule

Yes, I’m way too busy to actually write an entire […]

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How to Be Attractive at Any Age

My father actually told my mother that the reasons, among others, they divorced was because I was ugly and she was fat. Many years later, when I my brother, his […]

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Distracted

Ralph sent me the perfect video to describe what he thinks happens just in old age. I contend that it happens to be my entire life, not just old age […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Eerie

Can a simple picture of a building in Chicago make the hair stand on the back of your neck stand up? Does someone have to scream or appear with a light […]

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Wheels

Wheels have many uses, and a few useless jobs. One of the less important tasks is to take you up in the air. Patrick Meehan, an engineering student, published an […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Horizon

In the central Valley of California we can’t always see the horizon for the fog. There is a certain romance about an obscured horizon if you are not claustrophobic. In […]

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Movie Review: The Butler

Knowing that I enjoy most things historic, a couple of months ago Vince took me to see the top box office hit movie, The Butler. This was the perfect […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: The Hue of You

I love most colors. My house and clothes closet swell with many colors that reflect my love of variety and life. I love contrast. Blue might be my favorite hue […]

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Wordless Wednesday: Pet Games

Kalev is not overly playful with toys. She’s a lover. She pulls your hand in with her paw, and puts it on her tummy to rub her. She twists her […]

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Wordless Wednesday: Family Friendly Notre Dame

In the heart of South Bend, Indiana lies the famed […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Infinite

Today Randy and I made our way north to Michigan to the Warren Dunes State Park. I would describe it as infinitely blustery! It was infinitely uninhabited. The water stretched […]

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Sunday Stills, the next challenge: Landscapes

As you know, my brother, Randy, and I are on a trip to recapture the lands of our youth for his sixtieth birthday. The first leg of our journey was […]

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Calling All Photographers to Explain Photo Weirdness

As some of you know, I haven’t stopped traveling since […]

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The Accidental Vacation: Chapter 10

Chapter 10 Going Home… Or Not The debate continued for over 100 miles assisted by cell phone research. HowmuchfarthertoClearlake?What’s the ETA? What about Willits? I’d almost like to drive all […]

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The Accidental Vacation Chapter Nine

Chapter Nine The Last Sights of Klamath The next few days Vince and Marsha spend sight-seeing around Klamath. Of course they drove to Crescent City to check on the truck. […]

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WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Saturated

Saturated blue picture due to the wrong ISO setting, I believe. Very fixable in Photoshop – amazingly! 🙂

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The Accidental Vacation: Chapter Eight

Chapter Eight The Gem of the Klamath River “A new transmission is not so bad,” Vince said, still nervous about Marsha’s reaction to the news. “It could have been so […]

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The Accidental Vacation: Chapter Seven

Have you ever had car trouble that caused you to delay your trip home? Vince and Marsha spent several days enjoying an accidental vacation.

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The Accidental Vacation Chapter Six

Chapter Six Settling in on Sunday Like the fog lifting the in the morning sun, The Twilight Zone of optimism surrounding Vince began to burn off. With each telltale defeatist […]

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Accidental Vacation: Chapter Five

Chapter Five Has The Transmission Come Yet? Vince remained in his Twilight Zone of Optimism for several more days after the truck’s transmission lost everything but first gear and reverse. […]

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Accidental Vacation Chapter Four

Chapter Four “The car rental agency in Crescent City, CA had one car. We have water, and we have food,” Vince stated abnormally joyfully. He flashed his wife a boyish […]

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Accidental Vacation Chapter Three

Chapter Three Finally Camping The next morning Marsha and Puppy Girl checked out ATV prices at the log cabin store next to the campground. For only $45 an hour she and […]

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The Accidental Vacation Chapter Two

Chapter Two Settling into New Digs It was just a short drive the next morning from picking up the trailer to the Oregon Dunes KOA where they were scheduled to […]

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The Accidental Vacation

Chapter One Just the Right Trailer Vince had been looking online for months after he sold the family trailer at the coast for something more portable to replace it. Two […]

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Manny’s Metropolitan Marathon: London, England

Dear Mom, I learned a lot at Ute’s school. Did […]

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Book Review: Thirty-Two Going on Spinster by Becky Monson

Normally the adjectives cute and funny would not describe: spinster, […]

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Abandoning Sordid Pasts and Moving On

If you live as long as I have, there might be something SORDID in your past if folks cared enough excavate the artifacts to uncover it! Personally I want my […]

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Manny’s In Heaven

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to celebrate the “life” Manny has been leading this past month. I just got word today that he has gone to teddy bear […]

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Book Review: Through the Redwood Curtain by Robert Burke

At a Woodlake High School Foundation Dinner I attended recently, […]

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Ask Marsha: Aps for High School Social Studies Class

With the onslaught of the Common Core into the classroom […]

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The Adventures of Manny

Hi Mom, I’ve had a great time with Ute and Ralph. This is where we are staying. It is hot here, and we lay out on the patio every day. […]

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Wednesday Challenge: Focus

Focus. This week’s challenge is inspired by Matthew George’s post on focus, in which he introduced us to the basics of depth of field and aperture. He explained what an image with […]

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Tuesday Review: Interview with JT Weaver

As I continue to try to find my voice as a blogger, I find myself drawn into the role of book reviewer. As I continue on this pathway, a next […]

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Monday: Ask Marsha: Making Italian Sauce

Vince’s Dad was the sauce maker in the family. Every Sunday he made sauce. We would go to visit, and Dad would always send us plenty of sauce home with […]

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No Sordid Post Friday

I have 26 minutes left to publish a Friday post. Yikes! I could publish trash, which would be sordid, but instead I’ll leave you with a pleasant picture, and see […]

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Adventures and Non-Adventures of Marsha and Manny

What I really mean by that is that Manny is […]

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Tuesday Book Review: The Sea and the Silence by Peter Cunningham

First of all, I KNOW it’s late Wednesday, not Tuesday! […]

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Ask Marsha: The Ins and Outs of Guest Blogging

Before I get to guest blogging, let me make a […]

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Sordid Friday, Two Days Late: Neighbors!

Have you been arrested yet because your neighbor called the police on you? Then you don’t have the kind of neighbors I heard about last week. I was in Chris […]

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Adventures of Marsha Not Manny

Manny has been too busy to write from Spain this week, and I have been too busy to even tell you all about it. On Thursday I headed down to […]

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Wednesday: WP Photo Challenge: Masterpiece

WordPress Photo Challenge For this challenge, get creative. Reach far. And remember that “masterpiece” can mean many things. We want to see awesome sites you’ve discovered, fantastic things you’ve come […]

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Tuesday Review: We’re the Millers

I apologise for this being so late. This week is crazy for me, and the chances of me getting any more posts done this week will be slim. Today was my […]

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