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
I have to say this is a poignant movie that will make you laugh and cry. And for me that makes it more than worth watching. These four actors are perfectly cast. Bryan Cranston, Steve Carrel, Laurence Fishburne and J Quinton Johnson. I hadn’t heard of it before but the important message is one I believe in.
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“Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry “Doc” Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.”
“State of Play” with Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck and more! Netflix is showing this 2009 movie and it’s a good one.
State of Play is a 2009 political thriller film directed by Kevin Macdonald. It is based on the 2003 British television serial of the same name. The film tells of a journalist’s probe into the suspicious death of the assistant and mistress of a Congressman. Wikipedia
The Shadorma consists of a six-line stanza (or sestet). Each stanza is written as 3-5-3-3-7-5 for a total of 26 syllables with no set rhyme scheme. When writing a Shadorma, I would concentrate on a specific subject. Shadorma need a title.
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Feeling nostalgic as I plant one more peony bush in containers on my patio garden. Pink is the chosen color, just like the ones I had in my country garden home over ten years ago. The cut peony blooms so large and fragrant that only one bloom was enough to scent my entire home.
I had other flowers, iris that had been handed down to us from my husband’s grandmother, who maintained a huge variety of iris even in her nineties.
I’d like, too, to plant the sweet alyssum that smells like honey and peace, always delicate and inviting on the edges of a large container. It goes well in contrasting dusty miller as a border.
The patio garden is not ideal and I miss the green grass and pink crab apple tree blossoms as well, but this will do, bringing back scented memories.
1. I am happy with my life and feel content. I get frustrated as everyone does who lives out of a chair, but I really can’t complain—did I say that? Doesn’t sound like me🤪
2. The only trip I have planned is to see a ballet version of Dracula in Denver.
3. I listen to audible books every day and read blogs here and the news. My latest book was “Code Zero” by Jonathan Maberry. Before that I had read again, “Project Hail Mary” by Andy Weir, and “Wolfsong” by TJ Klune. If I’m waiting on hold in the library app and can’t afford Audible, I reread some favorites.
4. Actually I was up late this morning and I’m still having coffee at 2:20pm, so something small and easy. I think it will be a tomato/cheese quesadilla😂
Anyone seen the new Elvis movie? My daughter and her daughter are wild about it and told me I should watch it now that it’s on HBO, so last night I did, at least I tried🙄.
I love Tom Hanks but his performance as The Colonel, nope, lacked…a lot. The narration was irritating. I liked some of Bas L. other movies such as “Moulin Rouge” but this?? I fast forwarded through much of the colonel’s speeches and the way it was “in your face” with cuts across the screens like a TikTok video and huge letters displayed was annoying. And constantly going back and forth in time is not my thing. Add to that, there were hardly any performances by the actor who actually played Elvis, which was a huge disappointment!
I give a lot of credit to Austin Butler who was very good as Elvis and his singing and dancing were great—he has potential, but the movie as a whole was a D+ at best.
Now tell me what you think, have you seen it? Since I “lived” it, is probably part of my problem. The 1968 comeback special is how I like to remember Elvis.
One scene from “White Nights”, a movie with outstanding dancing.
White Nights is a 1985 American musical drama film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren and Isabella Rossellini. It was choreographed by Twyla Tharp.Wikipedia
Don’t bother me, I’m in retreat Covering up, admitting defeat The world’s no longer “at my feet” In fact my enthusiasm’s beat Don’t try to offer words, if sweet I want no longer to hear their bleat They only offer mournful gleet I’m on that one way street Where depression offered me a seat.
The Bag Lady 
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