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Shopping in person

April 17, 2013 by · Leave a Comment

“Women who shop by telephone do not know what the pleasures of buying are.” The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen.   It is true that people who shop by telephone or as it stands now, by internet miss the communication that shopping in person allows.   When buying fabric one touches and feels [...]

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Iris in Progress

August 8, 2012 by · 2 Comments
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My husband Steve is working on a project and asked me for some pictures of Iris. No, he did not want photographs, he asked for drawn and colored ones. Here is the progression of my work. I show you the first one to the last as I experimented and tested my skills with oil pastels [...]

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Scents of the Past Pleasantly Color the Present

June 24, 2012 by · 3 Comments
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Scents and smells are most compelling in most people’s lives. The comfort of home and that special smell of Constant Comment wafting in the room as you talked to your favorite Aunt, or the scent of that lovely woman who bent down and kissed your cheek as a child, or even the smell of frying [...]

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Left Handedness Is From the Devil

June 3, 2012 by · 10 Comments
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Me, left handed cooking. My first grade teacher (bless her heart) hit me with a ruler because I used my left hand to write. I spent most of the year trying to use my weaker hand for the most important thing in class, writing. I did not do well in school that year or any [...]

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Happy Birthday John Hannah Gorgeous Man

April 23, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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John Hannah born today in 1962 is gorgeous. The man is a walking idol. Whether he is the wonderful lover in sliding Doors, the tough cop in Rebus or the gay lover in Four Weddings and a Funeral, Hannah is wonderful. Handsome as handsome can be with an amazing accent. Gorgeous man!

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Play or Don’t, But Check It Out!

March 6, 2012 by · 1 Comment

I’m it for now but I won’t be by the time I finish writing this post. But some of you will! Thank you, poet/writer/bloggin’ buddy Sweepy Jean for tagging me into the game. The rules are as follows: Post the rules. Tag up to eleven bloggers by posting links to their blogs, and let them [...]

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Lonely Condom Seeks Valentine

February 13, 2012 by · 9 Comments
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Valentine’s Day with National Condom Week Is it any surprise that today is not only Valentine’s Day but also National Condom Week? Not to me. I can see the correlation here. Honestly, can’t you see it? Here we are embarking on another V-day where expectations are high and demand is even higher. So, she is [...]

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Sometimes Four Books a Day

January 11, 2012 by · 10 Comments
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I have set up a reading goal for this year, as I always do. I am reading between 150-200 books. To accomplish this, I have to read all the time. Since I cannot read all the time, I decided on a new way of reading. Listening. Most of my days are spent in the Kapolei [...]

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Library Guard Told Me To Be Quiet

January 7, 2012 by · 4 Comments

Dear Baba Rumcake I was in the library with my son who is mentally challenged. We were doing homework and the woman in the next table kept giving me dirty looks. To top it off, the guard came and told me to keep it down since other people were working. I felt offended. Do you [...]

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Glaring At My Husband

January 2, 2012 by · 1 Comment

Dear Baba Rumcake, Don’t you love it when people give you dirty looks because, you are, there? My husband, who is very sweet and very kind, to everyone I might add, happened to be standing, waiting to take his seat. This woman, stood before his chair, not paying attention to him at all and she [...]

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