You Should Be Allowed to Vote

You got 15/15 questions correct. Generally speaking, you’re very well informed. If you vote this election, you’ll know exactly who (and what) you’ll be voting for. You’re likely to have strong opinions, and you have the facts to back them up.
Should You [...]

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Early voting began today in several states, Florida included.
I love being early. 
I was the 945th person to vote at the early voting poll nearest my house.  There was a short line (maybe 10 minutes), and the only technical problem I saw was with the staplers – the workers had a hard time matching which [...]

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It’s been a long week. Not long after I posted on Monday, the phone rang. The clinic at Princess’ school, calling to tell me she’d fallen off the monkey bars at school and hurt her wrist, and did I want to come pick her up?
So the week has been busy with dr appointments, [...]

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Three years ago, I was thinking about my dreams.  Mostly, my dream of writing.  For years I’d dreamed that one day, I’d be a published author.  That other people would enjoy my writing enough to want to read it.  But I’d made only one half hearted attempt at pursuing that dream, an attempt quickly abandoned [...]

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We see hawks fairly often here flying near the house.  We live right off the marsh, which might be the nearest avian equivalent to a fast food drive through – snakes, rats, and other slithering and scurrying things galore.  During the summer I love to float on my back in the pool and look overhead [...]

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A bit ago I was in a reader’s funk.  Nothing I picked up seemed to do it for me.  I’d picked up and put down half a dozen books, and nothing was clicking for me.

Then Riding Temptation showed up.  Special Op’s bikers, alpha men with a mission on Harleys.  It was the perfect book for [...]

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Squeezed.  That’s me the past week.  From mom duties to work duties to wife duties to repair maven to pet mommy to carpool, and back again. 
We’re entering the final push of Big golf tournaments for the year, and hubby heads out tomorrow for almost two weeks of non-stop work.  I’m not going on the [...]

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