The turkeys are back at my sister’s home in Vermont😀
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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
Too Early!
Jack and Jock decided to entertain at the fall festival. They were known as the dynamic duo of accordion players. People who had heard them before shouted out songs they wish to be played.
The famous couple decided to go with the Country Christmas theme and put on horse heads for laughs, which received a “right on” from the crowd until they started playing Christmas carols. It was only November first and the Halloween decorations were still up on the edges of the stage. The crowd booed until they played “We Gather Together”, and everyone clapped.
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http://christinebialczak.com/2022/11/08/simply-6-minutes-welcome-to-the-challenge-11-08-2022/
Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge
not a surprise
dancing under twilight
would be her demise
every turn, every step
she clung closer to him
she never saw his eyes starting to dim
she looked up now
found his eyes burned red
and as quick as a wink
she was laying there, dead.
http://godoggocafe.com/2022/11/08/tuesday-writing-prompt-challenge-november-8-2022/
2022 November PAD Chapbook Challenge 8
Prompt: Write a form poem. I choose the Shardoma.
Vote
expressing
your right to vote says
you can think
use your brains
privilege, not a light one
speak, write your choices
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https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2022-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-8
Fandango’s Story Starter
This week’s Story Starter teaser is: CRAIG HAD TO CHOOSE A PATH, BUT GIVEN HIS HISTORY OF MAKING POOR DECISIONS, HE…decided to ask his best friend Joe to help.
“ Hors d’oeuvres!”yelled Joe.
“Yes. I thought why not? They’re tasty, bite sized, so no mess, come in all flavors and maybe wine?”
Joe interrupted, “for a bachelor party?”
“Sure, why not?”
“You realize these guys are all Seals, right? You know, frogmen? They don’t eat hors d’oeuvres, they rarely drink anything but beer and this is what you want to serve?” Craig shrugged.
Truthful Tuesday
I prefer hot coffee, a latte or cappuccino but like iced tea. My earliest memory of drinking coffee and I hated it was in a drive in with my girlfriend. We were freezing and coffee was all the concession stand offered. Hot tea was a cure all according to my mom if we felt sick. I hated it.
Because you are taking over the prompt, and thank you! It is your choice!👍🏻
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2022/11/08/truthful-tuesday-8th-november/
Vote!
I would say some of the candidates available for us to vote for today would compare to these below, along with the people who voted for them:
JMO of course.
🎭Movies🎭
After watching “The Normal Heart”:
After his childhood buddy is murdered while visiting Detroit, rebellious cop Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) follows the leads to Beverly Hills, Calif., under the auspices of a vacation. He checks in with old friend Jenny Summers (Lisa Eilbacher) and starts to believe her boss, art dealer Victor Maitland (Steven Berkoff), might somehow be involved in the murder. However, Lt. Bogomil (Ronny Cox) of the Beverly Hills Police Department does not trust Foley, and hinders his search for evidence.
Release date: December 5, 1984 (USA)Director: Martin Brest
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‘In the street of the sky night walks scattering poems.’ E E Cummings
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Scattering Poems
He was a dreamer. His imagination was beyond the usual poet and he tried to install this love of his into the minds of their children.
Julie had known it when they first met twenty years previous as he quoted Cummings’ poetry with the line: ‘In the street of the sky night walks scattering poems.’
She knew it first in the library and then walking in the park after a meeting they both attended. She was attracted to him immediately and not sure why exactly, but as the evening drew on, the pieces fit together easily.
Unsure how to respond to his statement, she failed speaking a line in return. Instead of talking, she looked at him lovingly and hooked her arm in his. Over the next weeks she grew more and more fond of this dreamer and his words.
One Book More
Another TJ Klune choice I just read again— his way of explaining love in all forms is the best.
From Goodreads: Welcome to Charon’s Crossing. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through.
“When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead.
And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s definitely dead.
But even in death he’s not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days.”
“Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home.”
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The Bag Lady 
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