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07/10/2013 09:47
There are stories of various cultures being described as “friendly.” How great is it when you travel to another country or geographical area & have that instant feeling of being welcome there. And isn’t it a lovely feeling when the area that you live within is that way by nature...
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30/09/2013 09:18
The sky must be falling since there has been no singing of the tea kettle & no sweet aroma of dark, rich, bold coffee brewing for this gal for 4 days now. A day without tea I have found is like a day that the sun forgot to shine. Tea is my favourite food/drink & every cuppa is...
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23/09/2013 09:17
Are you familiar with the cliché, “the proof is in the pudding?” It can be funny or even a wee bit strange when we think about how sayings come into being. Sometimes, we don’t know where the saying came from yet somehow we still get the gist of it. Today, the guidepost for these...
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16/09/2013 10:16
Well it is September yet again & you know what that means! “Don’t say it” you may be thinking. Okay, let’s get it out…return to school time. You probably know someone who has returned recently to school. Perhaps it is you yourself who has begun a new academic year either as a...
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09/09/2013 13:17
Do you remember the cans that have the cow’s “voice” inside them? Maybe you played with one when you were small or have heard of them. When I was a wee gal, I thought that toy was kind of a marvel. What I really wanted to do though was somehow take the lid off of the toy so that I...
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02/09/2013 12:00
What does a healthy person look like to you? There may be a picture of fitness that comes to mind or we may be including a more wholistic ideal. Consider that there are situations in life where we perceive someone or something as healthy & it turns out that the opposite is actually...
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26/08/2013 01:20
Living in a home with 4 “boys” you would think that I may have gleamed a few ideas about the inner working of sports. To a certain degree, this is true. When it comes to football, I admit as much as the guys have tried to explain the game, I am “like a deer in the headlights” in terms...
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19/08/2013 01:05
It has been 5 years & 9 months since I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. November 29, 2007 is a date that my memory has kept in its storage banks. If you have diabetes or another 365 health challenge, you too may find that you continue to remember the exact date that you were...
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12/08/2013 09:47
How many times in life have you found yourself uttering the words, “how did I end up here” or a slight variation? We may wonder at times why we are in or at a certain place in our lives. When we think about it, whether we are asking these questions, we may be asking them out of...
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05/08/2013 10:56
Have you ever had the delight of either seeing an English garden either in person or in photographs? The ones that I have seen in both forms have been breath taking. The images of the beautiful gardens remain in your memory & that’s a great thing! One of the gardens that my...
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