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

Greg’s 4 Line Fiction – Politicos

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Yes we keep on the straight and narrow, never bending to others’ wishes. Occasionally we spike a finger or two but certainly try not to cause harm. We never wander into new ideas, or try new things. We like to keep you on your toes, look ominous and cause fear.

https://gmgblog.ca/2023/03/28/four-line-fiction-2313/#like-6841

dVerse Poets

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized
***
Fine art America

I strive to be seen

Through your favorites’ screen

I rise up and greet

But no one wants to meet

My presence…for I am a weed

Started just like the others, from a seed

My form may not be your idea of pretty

As others grown here, but please take pity

On me and others you choose to despise

We all need a place to live our lives.

***

http://dversepoets.com/2023/03/28/weeds-rule-ok/

There’s ART and then there’s:

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“A chunky grey staircase thrusts out from the side of a new office tower in Los Angeles, lunging towards a rail line before jerking back on itself and lurching up the building in jagged twists and turns. It crashes into a warped lattice of bands that wrap around the glassy hulk, swooping past corner windows that jut in and out like broken teeth. This is (W)rapper, “an outrageous creative office tower”, in the words of its leasing agents, set to “reawaken the Los Angeles skyline”. It is also the bombastic tombstone of a bygone era, a carbon-guzzling monument to a time when architectural ego trumped the interests of people and planet.”

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Classic Song Beginnings

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“Norman Greenbaum’s 1969 hit, “Spirit in the Sky” is one of the most memorable songs of the classic rock era. Released as part of his 1969 album of the same name, “Spirit in the Sky” reached the top three on the Billboard charts, where it remained for 15 weeks, has remained quite popular in the decades since.” extrachill.com

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Six Sentence Story

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Marie acted the coquette as she slipped behind the screen. This was her way of seduction, making sure the gentleman was able to peer through the perfectly placed lace panels. Then she slowly, deliberately took her time removing one piece of clothing at a time, arranging the discarded garments over the top of the screen, and then daubed cologne on various pressure points to increase the enticement. By the time she stepped from behind the screen, he was full of anticipation. Marie whispered, “My love, shall we have dinner”, and their appetites were soon satisfied.

https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2023/03/26/sundays-six-sentence-story-word-prompt-255/

SYW 3-27-23

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized
1. Do you have a lot of friends or do you know a lot of people ?
2. If you are at a party and know very few of the guests, do you mingle and introduce yourself, sit on the sidelines and people watch, or discreetly leave?
3. What is the best job you have ever had?
4. Can you swim?

1. Friends are spread out over the country but I consider bloggers friends from all over the world too. Here where I am now my daughter is my best friend.

2. I mingle.

3. Delivering flowers—a temp job on busy holidays.

4. Yes I can swim but since I’ve had the ostomy in 2015 I never do.

Gratitude this week is the same old same old- family😂

19F and snowing today

https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/03/27/share-your-world-27th-march/

The Sunday Whirl

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Her mind was raw, her body bone-weary, and the rushes to believe the scandals, even from whom she thought of as friends, was too much. She could hear their whispers, spiraling the layers of supposed secret truths. They landed light as a feather on her shoulders but left a permanent non healing scar.

https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2023/03/26/wordle-598/#like-2888

Rory’s Dawdler

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1. You’d have to ask a three year old.
2. Being with family. Eating lunch in a drivethru. Eating dinner in a restaurant. Reading or watching a book/show that has all the good elements, wit and humor preferred. Laughing with my daughter and her daughters.
3. Of course and help them achieve them if possible.
4. Honestly? Not very well. I grew up with it and as an old adult I don’t want to hear it.
5. Yes!
6. To look disgusting.
7. I don’t know.
8. I listen to lots of audio books but I like Netflix for the fact they don’t charge extra fees to watch movies.
9. I suppose. I’m not a patient person!

https://earthlycomforts.uk/2023/03/26/the-garden-dawdler/

MLMM Saturday Mix

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She gritted her teeth and began the climb. This wasn’t the first time she had fallen out of the chair, and probably not the last. She of course knew better than to bend down low to retrieve something she dropped. It had started to be more frequent as arthritic fingers refused to cooperate. If she left it on the floor she’d probably just roll over it and cause a bigger mess, but she was really looking forward to it. When taking the foil covering off the mini peppermint candy, the chocolate disk popped out to the floor. She was short and the chair was too. She wasn’t exactly hurt, yet. Foolishness aside, she now had to figure a way to get back up into the chair. She placed the chair against the cupboards, locked the wheels, and shifted to a closer position. She could do this, had to, because no way was she calling 911 to say she’d fallen and couldn’t get up. Her grandson, a firefighter, told her that many of their calls are for that reason. Her arms were strong, legs useless, but determination was her savior.

https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2023/03/25/story-starter-saturday-mix-25-march-2023/