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Belly Laughs, part deux, for Watercooler Wednesday

Yay!  It’s Watercooler Wednesday, where the posts are loosely based around a theme, something to spark the imagination and get that community “water-cooler” feeling going.  We all need help getting over hump-day, after all. Hospitals have been coming to mind this week:  it seems that lately a lot of friends (including blogging buddies) have been(…)

Watercooler Wednesday: belly laughs

  Yay!  It’s Watercooler Wednesday, where the posts are loosely based around a theme, something to spark the imagination and get that community “water-cooler” feeling going.  We all need help getting over hump-day, after all.     This week’s theme:   Belly Laughs   Laughing relieves stress, works the abs, and triggers endorphins, the “feel(…)

Wise Word Wednesday: Milestone Mashups

Today’s Wise Word Wednesday arrives just before that all-important summer holiday weekend, a time of red-white-and-blue kid bicycle parades, incendiary devices, and drunken men, some of whom are now referred to as “Lefty.”  Of course, I’m talking about:   The Fourth of July     So in the spirit of celebrating “ennials,” I’ve culled through(…)

Wise Word Wednesday: Friendship

  I used to picture the author’s life as a very solitary angst-ridden one.  You know, the cursed-ivory-tower with gin bottles and cigarette butts strewn on the floor. (Ok, stop laughing, I was raised on mixture of Tennyson and Beat Poetry). Imagine my delight in discovering that friendship is the key component to the writing(…)