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Are you there God? It’s me….”Rah-kel.”

My Aunt Cranky calls me “Rah-kel.” I think it is my name ...

Granny’s hair ornament

    BAR-NEY!  …… BAR-NEY!!!!  Hoooooooooooo! HOOOOOOOOOOO! The swish of air, the ...

Goulash: a heterogeneous mixture; hodgepodge; jumble.

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What’s your brand?


I have a dear friend who is very ill. She has a message for everyone. It may sound simple. It may sound cliché. You may want to sweep it under the rug. I know she did years ago when I confronted her. I know a couple of other people in my life right now that [...]

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But this one thing I know…


“I’m pregnant and my husband is cheating and beats me .” “My druggie ex-husband has custody of my kids and I am fighting to get them back.” “My ex-husband told me that I do not have much longer to live and I have given up.” “My son is in jail.” ” My family member is [...]

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Reality check.


Today I will visit my long-time, and one of my best friends in the hospital. The doctors are not giving her a good diagnosis as of this last week. Yesterday my girlfriends mother passed away. She was also my friend. While I did not have the privilege of knowing her on a deeper level, I [...]

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“Do A Dingo” Experiment


I shuffled my way to the coffee pot. My eyes were still in “sleepy” mode and I had not yet uttered a word. I nodded to The Big Injun and went about making my coffee. Woof…woof…..Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr………….. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR……. YELP! YELP!!! The most horrific sound came from outside. I knew it was our dog. But who could [...]

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Hasta la vista boob tube!


My kids slay me. 17 degrees and a north wind of about 40 MPH, the first snow of the year and the “boy” wants to go to school in a t-shirt. I stepped outside and froze my kittens right off in 2.2 seconds. Then the other kid who is even more ridiculous tries to go [...]

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2011 Blog stats


The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 18,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 7 sold-out performances for that many [...]

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Eat More Sushi.


So this year, instead of promising myself I am going to have a full-body make-over,  complete with new thighs and minimal arm “flab” by the year of 2013…. I am just going to be more realistic and do the things that I love. The things that make me…me. The things that are realistic. The things [...]

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Gonna wash that gray right outta my hair!


This week I have learned two things about myself: I have claws even a momma bear would back away from…and  I can use a $7 box of color to cover up my $80 highlights.  The revelation of these two things have given me a new lease on life. In about 6 months I will be [...]

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The day I realized my “Fountain of Youth” clocked out early:


It was yesterday and  I was putting on makeup. For 39 years I had lived in my imaginary land where rainbows and unicorns exist. Where there was world peace and where my forehead was wrinkle-free. I put on my new eye make-up and as I was doing so, I lifted my eyebrows up to gain more [...]

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Oh…OH….OH…..OKLAHOMA where the winds come tearing down your deck….


“And the earthquakes hit, the drought never quits, and the snow is  up to your pits!!” The year is 2011. The state is Oklahoma. And I live there.  Whoa!!! What a year!!!  We started off in January with record breaking freezing temperatures. We hit -30 something below. -30 below! IN OKLAHOMA!  What the freezing heck??? [...]

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