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  Happy Dolly Parton Day!  We should ALL celebrate.  (Why not?) We probably SHOULD have celebrated while Dolly was still alive (wouldn't she be tickled pink?), but hindsight is always 20/20. Why should we celebrate Dolly on 9-2-5?  Why SHOULDN'T we? Why shouldn't we celebrate a woman who: 1.      Was born in poverty; one of 12 children living in a 2 room house.  When she died she was worth over $450 million. 2.      Wasn't afraid to laugh at herself. (Google some of her quotes...she knew how to use laughter.) 3.      She founded a charity in 1995 that mails free books to young children worldwide every month...  (Approximately 330 million and still going.  Sources say that in 2017, her Imagination Library gifted more than 40 million books to children. )  And she did so in honor of her father who couldn't read. 4.      She had her own theme park since 1986.  (I've n...

So, I may spend most of my time in the Poconos, but when "my" church needed someone to fill in one Sunday, it was back to NJ.  (I've yet to transfer my membership to "my" church in the Poconos.)  So here's what my meditation was about.    Matthew 20:1-16   20 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius [ a ] for the day and sent them into his vineyard. 3 “About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4 He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ 5 So they went. “He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. 6 About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’ 7 “‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. “He sai...

Yes, I put on pants this morning. I know you're thinking shouldn’t you put on pants every morning?  But here's my thought, the minute summer hits, I am less likely to put on long pants / jeans and more likely to put on a skirt, skort, or shorts. My fat legs want to be out there.  They need to soak up some sun.   I know summer doesn't officially end until Tuesday. I know Memorial Day was early this year and Labor Day was late. To me that is a blessing. I am all about warm days and enjoying everything that the season has to offer. I’d admit that I have worn shorts with sweatshirts on colder days, (Days where the sweatshirt came off before noon.)   I have worn capris to work instead of long pants. Although I did wear a pair of white slacks to the office one day this summer. (You know that you can only wear white after Memorial Day and not after Labor Day. Of course my white pants work quickly staying which really pissed me off.)   The daylight is fading earlier...

My husband and I celebrated our 30th anniversary over this past weekend. The day before our actual anniversary we invited a group of friends over for a party. And we had a surprise guest!    It was a relatively nice day out. It was warm enough for need to wear a sleeveless shirt. (Summer’s not official over yet!) I was hopeful that we could have the gathering in our backyard. (It is so much easier than having people inside the house.) There were a few clouds and a threat of rain late in the evening, but I was feeling good about the day.    It was so nice that hours before the party was scheduled to begin we were sitting in the backyard. It was too good of a day to hide out inside! About an hour or so before the party was to begin, my husband looked over the gate on the west side of the yard (we have a fence that surrounds our backyard with 3 gates; one of the east side of the, one on the north and one of the west) and saw something. Standing atop the gate was a c...

Photos from the morning of 9/11/2001 It's been 25 years since 9/11 happened. It didn't just happen to New York. It didn't happen to Washington, DC. It didn't happen to Pennsylvania. It happened in all those places, but it happened to all of us. And when I say all of us I don't just mean America. It happened to the world. The ENTIRE world.  It was an attack on America, but it hurt more than just this country.  It’s damaged echoed throughout the every corner. It may have opened the eyes of the world a little bit, but often I think that those open eyes have to include shut. However, that's just my opinion.   And this blog post today it is all about my opinion. It reflects what I feel 25 years later. You may agree with what I say or you may disagree. I hope however that we can all agree that what happened 25 years ago should never be forgot.   I have blogged previously about where I was and what I was doing on 9/11/2001, so I won't get into that again. You want...

My husband and I will be celebrating 30th anniversary this weekend. For our 30th it would have been nice to take a vacation somewhere, however that’s not happening. I think back on all the wonderful anniversary trips we've taken over the years and I miss them but... Instead we are having a party.  (Not quite a trip to Walt Disney World, but…)  It got me to thinking about our wedding 30 years ago. There were about 100 people or so at our wedding (I wasn’t in charge of the guest list) which I know is not a lot. However, when I think back, I think of all the people who there who are no longer with us. People who are important to me at the time but are no longer part of my life.  So forgive me for being a little maudlin. The most obvious being my parents. The wedding was really my mom's domain. She and my father arranged for the venue (the yacht club that they belonged to; at the time it was really just a small building with the deck), she arranged the flowers (I don’t e...