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Our Friday Night “Safety Meetings”
A few years ago, a group of us women, in – or approaching our sixties, formed to meet on Friday nights during Happy Hour. How it came about: One of the husbands of the women apparently attended a “safety meeting” on a weekly basis with a group of his men friends. This group held a…
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It’s Been 7 Hours and Thirty Days…
I keep counting the days. I think that — in my mind, maybe as the number grows – it will hurt less. But it doesn’t. Hurt less. It hurts different – every day the grief morphs into a new version of sadness, anger and barely-able-to-contain irritability. The Five Stages of Grief that you read about…
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I Don’t Want to Live in “A Country Divided”
I have never been a person who talks politics. I’ve never been a person to state my party preference privately or publicly. I don’t even claim a political party; I have been registered as an Independent for as many as years as I can remember. I have always voted for a candidate not a party.…
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Christmas is Hard…
The holidays are not all merry and jolly. In fact, for some, this is the hardest time of the year. That is me – I am “some”. I delicately straddle the days leading up to Christmas and New Years – Wanting to enjoy the beautiful and fun parts: the decorations, lights, music, parties and young…
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I Am Exactly Where I Am Supposed To Be Right Now
Do you ever have those moments, days, weeks, or years that feel like a never-ending doomsday? Maybe you got a flat tire on the way to work, or the suspicious-tasting salmon-skin sushi roll last night, landed you in the bathroom until the wee hours of the morning. Or you keep getting sick; virus after virus, until…
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What Do Our Halloween Costumes Say About Us?
A witch, a princess, a rock star, a super hero, a ghost, a zombie, a nurse, a fireman or a human-size taco? What will you be? It’s that time of year again – where we may or may not be dressing up for Halloween. If we are not thinking about it for our kids – or…
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Longing to Belong
Belonging, longing to be longed for, longing to belong, longing to be loved and included. These are the feelings and unattainable qualities I have chased for as long as I have had memories. Other people usually do not see this; they see a friendly, outgoing and positive person. Someone who is likeable enough. A person…
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It’s Homecoming Season
Does going home to your childhood places comfort you? I have been doing a lot of coming home for the past 3 years. First, I returned to my home town of Petaluma after living in other cities, and in one case – another country, for the ten years prior to that. It would be an…
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Raw-Dogging: The No-Stimuli Way To Fly
Recently I have been hearing about a new trend called, “raw-dogging” in relationship to flying on airplanes. This trend popularized by TikTok, is also known as, “barebacking” and involves taking a commercial airline flight, usually of at least two or more hours, with zero sensory stimuli. This practice entails sitting through the duration of the…
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Second Date Update Stories
Okay – let’s just say it’s been a while since I had a first date. I have not actively pursued dating in a few years – I am actually quite content with my life and it no longer feels like something is missing that I need to seek out. I did, however, date quite a…
Killing It In My Sixties 