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

Pretty Woman

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“Roy Orbison’s “Pretty Woman” went to number one on Billboard Hot 100 on September 26, 1964. The song was later the subject of a lawsuit that involved the Supreme Court and expanded the concept of fair use, eventually opening the door for parody song.” Below, recorded on black and white night – I think I saw my sixties hairdo on someone in the audience😄

  • Roy Orbison and Bill Dees wrote “Oh, Pretty Woman” in about 90 minutes after Orbison’s wife Claudette asked him for shopping money. Dees began the song with, “Pretty woman…don’t need no money.” 
  • The song’s “Mercy!” was a phrase Dees often used. Orbison’s growl in the song was a spontaneous addition during recording. 
  • Despite its upbeat melody, the lyrics tell a wistful story of unrequited longing, ending with the woman seemingly returning to the narrator. 
  • Claudette, Orbison’s first wife and the inspiration for the song, died in a motorcycle accident in 1966. 
  • Orbison’s trademark sunglasses became a necessity after he left his regular glasses on a plane, forcing him to wear his prescription Ray-Bans on stage.

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MLMM Friday Faithfuls

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Respond to this Friday Faithfuls challenge by writing anything about longevity.

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My family thinks I’m immortal so maybe I’m not concerned with longevity! I’ve had multiple health issues, died twice in a hospital (talk about poor healthcare😳😃) and came back. And no, saw no angels serenading me with harps, no white light to drift into, nothing. That is how my beliefs changed from childhood religious tenets to my conclusion that there is no actual heavenly destination, or even hell, but it’s how you make it, how you live your life right here on this planet every day.

Most of my family has lived into their nineties. I just turned 79. So onward and upward!👍🏻😉

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Longevity

SoCS 9-27-25

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It used to be the only time you would hear “eek” coming out of my mouth would be if I saw a spider or snake, or when we lived in Houston, roaches! I’m sure many Southern “livers” can relate. Now it’s a much stronger well used but hardly appropriate utterance which I’m also thinking which is familiar. Now it’s daily news instead of insects, but pondering that, it really does equate!

I hope you all have a fun weekend and think good thoughts, I’ll try.

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The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Sept. 27, 2025

dVerse Poets

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For today’s Poetics, we will try to make this Tuesday a happy Tuesday. I am sharing titles of some books. You can incorporate one or as many as you like in your poem.

1.The pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardener

2. Happy Accidents: A memoir by Jane Lynch

3. The ministry of utmost happiness by Arundhati Roy

4. Stumbling on happiness by Daniel Todd Gilbert

5. The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde

6. The art of happiness by the Dalai Lama

7. More happy than not by Adam Silvera

8. Happiness is a choice by Neil Kaufman

If the above titles don’t inspire you, you can simply write us a happy poem. The idea is to smile as you write and put a smile on the face of the person reading your poem.

As always, please write a poem on your blog.

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the art

of happiness

starts with a genuine smile

lips wide with dimples is showing

happy

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Poetics Tuesday: Happiness is…