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

SYW 1-12-26

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Here are this week’s questions:

1. How would you describe your laughter? (giggly, deep, infectious? etc ). I’ve only been told they like it, so it must be funny.🥴

2. What makes you smile?Almost anything can make me smile. My first smile came this morning with a snap of my great grandson in the stroller hanging on with one hand. My grandson wrote, “you need to hold on tight when daddy drives the stroller”. Probably no one will get this but I just thought that was so endearing.

3. Have you ever cried with laughter, and if so, can you remember the circumstances? Yes. My daughter and granddaughter were on a road trip together and my granddaughter all of a sudden yelled out a word. It was so unexpected we all had a laughing fit over it.

4. Have you ever laughed at an inopportune moment? Embarrassing enough, yes, and no, I’m not going to tell😃

Gratitude: I guess for today I have to say that greeting from my grandson. I am very lucky to have such a loving family.

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Share Your World: 12th January 2026

Clairvoyance

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I thought I knew

Used all the clues

Easy as black ink and blue

But then she ran

The tattoo plan

Was in the can

I guess it was she who knew

I really had no clue

My work would fail

Turn way too pale

So she decided to bail.

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Monday Poetry Prompt: Clairvoyance

JuJoJan 11 – Opinion

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Opinion, whoa! That’s a hot topic for you. Today, this year, last year, you choose…opinions are flying around like crows on carrion. Sorry, got carried away, as I am an old woman with lots of time on my hands to have opinions unexpressed. I am a liberal surrounded by Wyoming good ‘ol boys and gun carrying cowboys. Suppressed, oppressed, opinions stay quietly under a quilted red white and blue coverlet. I love my country even though it’s being a tantrum throwing toddler right now.

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Daily Prompt – JusJoJan the 11th, 2026

The Sunday Whirl

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The ancient shape seemed to move and shift in a fluid motion. There might have been a moment of envy as I stood behind the professor, his beaming works with scrolls evident, but my own blunt reaction was that the truth in a scroll was indeed awesome, but the shape moving towards us made me stifle a frightening scream.

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