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It’s an interesting habit we have, this one, of stowing old loves (their letters and or their pictures usually or both) between the pages of some much-loved book or somewhere equally safe. Why is that do you think? To keep the memory of them warm or
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The world of boxes is an enchanting one. It
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There’s a great deal of glee that comes with being able to puff billowing tendrils of warm air out to form the genie-like apparition we know as smoke stacks. No real smoke, just warm air meeting cold in the battle to keep an upper hand. Silliness when you think about it because
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Most times when you’re growing up I can’t help thinking how little we pay attention to the details in our lives as they unfold. I was thinking about Miz who was my literary mentor many years ago now. She’s since passed away having accomplished for herself the title of novelist. She always told me,
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The wind is playing havoc with hair, children’s moods and my cat Molly. She’s turned into a minx. Let me clarify. Instead of being a mild-mannered cat with decorum to boot, she’s behaving as if she were a kitten half her age (3) and broken a piece of blue pottery that I had
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