Author: rugby843

I am a widow since 2013 and live by myself in a small apartment. I use a wheelchair to get around, but I wouldn't consider myself disabled. I'm 11 years away from having bladder cancer resulting in a urostomy and I'm doing well. This cancer was a result of having radiation in 1995 because of uterine cancer. So have faith in yourself, a cancer diagnosis is not a death sentence. My first try at blogging was an attempt to help other people with my condition. I am a mother of three married children, and a grandmother to eight gorgeous kids, featuring them often here, and a great grandmother to two as of today, 6/7/25! I enjoy exploring my feelings and like to try the challenges. I like humor, music, movies, games, and some sports. I absolutely appreciate your reading and commenting on my blog. I am happy to read all of your blogs and learn more about you. Please comment however you like, ask whatever, and I'll answer honestly. Thanks for reading! Cheryl

OLWG

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This week’s prompts are:

  1. the air smells like snakes
  2. noise can be hostile
  3. a ring around the moon

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Look, a ring around the moon

The jungle is lighting up

Hear that noise, can be hostile

Listen, you can hear –

Slithering in through the grass

Even the air smells like snakes

These are odd conversations

Just a jungle myth

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OLWG#413- 3x Dodoitsu (都々逸)

SYW 4-14-25

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Here are this week’s questions:

 What did you have for breakfast today? Coffee

 What is your preferred fruit juice? Orange

 What is your favourite snack? Too many to name

 What is your favourite hobby or pastime, either now or when you were younger? Now I love being with my family.

Gratitude: I am grateful to have family support and one of my granddaughters is coming home from PA where she finished her training as a pediatrician and another granddaughter and husband moved into their first house. Life is good.

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Share Your World 14th April.

Six Sentence Story

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I read the sign reading “Lease”. Excited to think we may have a home. Applied immediately and waited patiently for the owners’ reply. Meanwhile my husband continued his stints in the Reserves. I maintained my job at the Veterans help center. We were saddened to receive a crisp email declaring us unfit for the lease arrangement.

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Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Word Prompt!

Federal Cuts – Claytoonz

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“In addition to IMLS, Trump’s EO also eliminated the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the United States Agency for Global Media, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution, the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, and the Minority Business Development Agency. 

The White House referred to these as “continuing the reduction of the federal bureaucracy.””

 claytoonz@substack.com

First education, teachers, school lunch and enrichment programs, childcare, libraries, and more. Call your congressmen!

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MLMM Farewells

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Blogging here for a few years, I think of people who I miss very much. Curiosity has stirred me to research where they are now and if they are okay. Some well read bloggers have passed away and I’m sure we all miss them as well. Farewells are sometimes heart breaking, but a sad fact of life. We are all here to enjoy each other’s work and miss the people who are no longer here.

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Sunday Confessionals : Farewells

NPR PUZZLE

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Sunday Puzzle

NPR

On-air challenge

For tax season, this puzzle is titled “C.P.A.s.” Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase or name, in which the first word starts with C- and the second word starts PA-.

Ex. Person’s unsavory history  –>  CHECKERED PAST

  1. Social gathering, often before dinner, at which guests sip drinks
  2. Big green part of Manhattan
  3. Place with metered spaces where you can pay to leave your automobile
  4. In slang, a place to sleep for the night
  5. ___ Kids, 1980s doll craze
  6. Crinkly, colored strips used for party decorations
  7. Tree with fruit that might be seen on a Polynesian island
  8. Field where cattle graze
  9. Famous luxury hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip
  10. Something with buttons and switches that allows you to change an instrument’s setting

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