Santa’s Sprite I was around eleven years old, the eldest of eight children, when my beleaguered mother desperately reached out to me to help perform Santa duties. I was honored, excited that I’d get an early look at what Christmas holidays had in store for me and my siblings. Unfortunately, I quickly learned that producing […]
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No Thank You Thanksgiving is a Big Deal holiday in the U.S. Families start planning many months in advance. Who will host is a touchy decision. Will it be at Grandma’s house, or is that too much chaos for her? Things get touchy if there are extended families involving remarriages and second families. Egos clash
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Ghost Drivers Destination weddings are very popular these days. My husband and I are in sunny Los Angeles for such an occasion this weekend. This particular wedding has three different venues, one in a neighboring town. The moving about has us using rider applications and I am learning that things continue to evolve, on the
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Digital Purging Decades ago, when email entered our lives, no one told me to delete every email after I read it. Recently I received an alarming notice. My email provider, with which I have established a highly organized library of files, has instituted a new memory plan. If one exceeds memory, we will now pay
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Like a Girl I lived in Louisiana as a young girl. Our state license plate proudly proclaimed Louisiana to be the “Sportsman’s Paradise.” It was a man’s state for sure. Men had a Cajun history of fishing and hunting all year long. There was no mention of the role of women on the license plate.
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The Kiss Of Death Some subjects are verboten. We know through etiquette training that the subject provokes discomfort in our audience. For instance, sex, politics, or religion are sensitive topics. One must know to whom they are addressing delicate subjects lest they encounter blushes, avoidance, or downright indignation. I would add death and dying to
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Tardy Why are some people always late? These people arrive at meetings, lunches, dinners, and shopping dates harried, and breathless. They have many good excuses: terrible traffic, received a last-minute phone call (why answer it?), overslept, something came up at the office. The excuses are usually similar justifications, on repeat. I must have a military
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What A Night I received an invitation to “Night of Ideas” held at the Rothko Chapel in Houston, TX. The featured speaker was Dr. Peter Hotez, an “internationally- recognized physician scientist” as stated in the program. I’d seen him on national television and my heart soared. I may be a scientist groupie. Health Justice was
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Perpetual Motion My doctors agree about one thing: I need more exercise. My cardiologist asked me how I’d handled the pandemic. I responded that I’d remained pretty much sedentary, isolated and frozen in fear. “I can tell,” he responded. “How did you know?” I asked, truly perplexed that he knew. “You lost three minutes of
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When Fantasy Dies In 1967, when “Brown-Eyed Girl” was on the airwaves of our transistor radios, my neighborhood friend Julie and I would fall into a rapture every time the song played. We both had brown eyes. The song was meant for us! We were too young to date, yet we really wanted boyfriends. The
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