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  Scream, Laugh, or Cry? I choose to laugh. Today. A few days ago when my computer crashed, I cried. Not because I chose to cry. I simply couldn’t help myself.  It is a new week. A couple of friends called to see if we wanted to join them at Pudgee’s for lunch Friday. We pass the place every time we go to church or head south to Brooksville on US 41. We always say, “We need to check that place out.” So when Roland called to see if we wanted to join him and his wife for lunch at Pudgees, we were all in.  Originally, Mike and I thought it was simply an ice cream store, but the place offers sandwiches with all the trimmings. Mike and I chose footlong hotdogs with fries. The food was great, but the best was time spent with our friends.   I could post more about the afternoon, but the real story is what happened before we left the house.    Mike wanted to empty Tiki’s litter box. I was to hold the door for him to carry it outside. I pushed the door ope...

Computers: Love 'em or Hate 'em I have a love/hate relationship with computers. Please assure me I am not alone.     It is particularly frustrating when I am working on a novel and my computer seemingly crashes.  On Saturday.  After hours.  No tech support.   I have a back up computer. That’s good… even though it is just different enough to cost me a couple of hours to reset the password, go through pages of “I accept” statements and a bit to figure out how to get the “view” I’m used to seeing.   My REAL tech support team lives up north. I call them  Kids ‘R Us.  It includes daughters, sons-in-law, and grandkids who know much more than I do.   The helpdesk at  Kids “R” Us  usually starts with a "did you try" statement.   “Did you try turning it off then turning it back on?” “Did you try resetting your password?” “Did you try…” Well, you get the idea.   The answer is yes. Yes I have tried everything. (Well there was th...

  Intentional.   A Look Back. As we are nearly midway through the year, I decided to revisit my “word of the year” to see how it is playing out for me. If you didn’t read the January post where I chose the word “intentional” for 2024, I’ll put a link at the bottom for you.   I usually post my word for the year above the desk in my office. I didn’t exactly have my writing area  set up the during the remodel, so much of my writing has been at the dining room table. I can see “thankful” or “bountiful” or maybe “harvest” as part of a display above the table…if I had a word hanging there at all….but “intentional”? I don’t think so.   I’ve always linked my word for the year with my writing. To tell the truth, I hadn’t deliberately thought about the word since January. Yet, it has surfaced…even guided me in my writing efforts...unintentionally!   A Replica of Hemingway's Desk on His Boat, the Pilar. His work was both "Intense" and "Intentional" Writing Intentional...

  A Week to Remember I am writing this from Ohio. Yep, I flew to the Buckeye State last Friday. (Hey, when you find a one-way ticket for under thirty dollars, you grab it.)  Yes, I said one-way.   Not to worry. Mike is joining me here for a few days and we’ll drive home together. (Had you wondering, huh?)   This past week was my birthday week, so the day after my birthday, I flew to Cincinnati to see my mama. We’ve had a good visit and I’m  very  glad I came. Even if she did beat me in several games of Backstreet Rummy.   And for my Florida friends who think it is always cold here, mom and I took a walk today admiring the green grass and all the blooming flowers. Mom has roses blooming now, but I missed the lilacs by a few days.    Spring is definitely in the air. It was a bit hot today. So maybe it is summer in the air.   The evening I arrived, my youngest daughter picked me up from the airport and took me to a presentation I will ...