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

Simply Six Minutes

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They called me Grin since I was little, born with this set of teeth that always look like I’m either smiling or ready to eat you. I admit I had a hard time in school because I was constantly surrounded by others of my kind, hanging around me like a swarm., but none had the same toothy look. Girlfriends? Have you seen me? And kissing one? I repeat, have you seen me? So I am destined to be a one-hit-wonder, never to spawn. Well that’s fate in the big sea of life. Sigh…

Simply 6 Minutes – Welcome to the Challenge: 08/15/2023

Life as we know it…

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Mogadishu, Kalamazoo 

Pacific Grove California too

Wherever you go around in a whirl 

It’s all the same, the same old world 

Conflicts,  protests, sickness and cures, 

Haters, and lovers all think they allure

The future depends on the survival of all 

Every tint, every color feel fate’s rise and fall

The world keeps turning, but for how long

When we just keep playing the same old song

How long shall we sit in our safe comfy rooms

Watching, never acting, to change this doom?

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Fandango’s Story Starter

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This week’s Story Starter teaser is:

I didn’t see her when I opened the door, but I knew she was there. I could smell her perfume, “Night in Zambia”, we called it. When we were in Africa the life was simple and sweet with cooling lazy nights around a fire and hot sweaty days of watching wildlife. A perfume of sorts including all the scents of day and night and closeness were only between us. It had been ten years since she left me, but I can still feel and smell her presence.

Fandango’s Story Starter #110

dVerse Poetics – Transitions

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Some changes you have no choice

You think you have a voice

A say in what happens when

You think you do, and then

You’re knocked off your feet

Unaware of the defeat

Dreams, plans, all disappear

Your loved one dies and then fear

Can I make it all alone

Will I still have a home

It takes some time to realize

Things go on and you still have your life.

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http://dversepoets.com/2023/08/15/poetics-august-transitions/