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a.k.a. Phun Ridingweather

OK – so if you take acting classes – you learn to find personal thoughts, feelings, and mannerisms to take on an ‘on stage’ persona to make the character believable to the audience. Many performers,...

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Cat-ercise ‘The Buddy Method’

As I write this, my loveable, Alpha Male cat, ‘Buddy’ is happily meowing and playing with his collection of cat toys in the kitchen. Brings a smile to my face! My cat, Buddy, has many roles; one of...

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Especially Silly Series of Events

For starting out, Ho Hum, my Saturday turned out to be especially silly and Smile Provoking! Headed out to DENNYS’ for lunch. After parking and engaging my car alarm – WOOP WOOP WOOP! a car alarm...

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Kindness is Kontagious!

What a W.O.W. (World of Wonder!) couple of days! Needness to say, it’s been a SUPER challenging past week (mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually!) – luckily we have a ‘FAMILY TEAM’ working...

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Fruitcake Life Lessons

I have a beautifully witty, creative, kind friend who has shared the following story with me: As a young child, in school, there was a holiday gift exchange. After the class picked their gift packages,...

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The Kindness of Strangers

As I was getting out of my car, walking across the parking lot, to my local SUBWAY sandwhich shop, for lunch – I thought my purse seemed lighter! At the same time, a cab driver was driving by; I...

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9-11 Walk in Peace, Visualize Peace, Be Peace

I was sitting at SUBWAY Sandwich shop for lunch; when I heard a senior woman say she was purchasing a sandwich for an 85 year old in a local nursing home. The woman was talking to the owner (originally...

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Mulch ado about nothing

*Pfew! I am SO glad it wasn’t ME this time! Insert Menopausal Mid-Life Crisis Woman Stress Relieving Laugh, here. I stopped by a local HOME DEPOT GARDEN Department at 10:30 AM – last week. I wanted to...

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Relying on the Kindness of Strangers

“BE REALLY KIND AND GENTLE WITH YOURSELF” is what the sign noted, sitting in the middle of a bouquet of silk flower, stuffed into a metal pipe. The surprise was that it was located in the middle of a...

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Healthy Socialization Happy Holiday Tradition and Always

I have my own method of SPREADING GOOD CHEER THROUGHOUT THE YEAR! For ages, story tellers were of value to tribes. The tradition of sharing information, which later became more colorful and...

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Catercize! Level 2

My ALPHA MALE cat, BUDDY (adopted from PAWS) gives one a REAL WORKOUT!  I say he was a baseball or hockey player in a previous life! WHAT AN ARM! I mean PAW!  He LOVES having fluffy cat toys tossed at...

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Super Gloria Love Angel

I give a talk called: WHO ARE YOU? WHO? WHO? WHO? WHO? (Yes! Like the song by THE WHO!) I invite my audience to REMOVE THEIR FALSE/OLD MASK and TAKE ON A NEW, SELF-DESCRIBED PERSONA! For example, I can...

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A Day to Honor the Life and Death of my Amazing Sister Dolly

After having her ‘life as she knew it’ taken away from her by a drunk driver, on November 23, 1968; my oldest sister Dolly no longer had to live in her brain damaged, partially paralyzed body; passing...

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Cat-er-cise through Grief, Good Grief!

When I lost a cat of 13 years, back in 2006 – I went to PAWS to give a home to a new pet. I wanted an ‘orange’ cat, but there weren’t any. I chose to adopt a ‘blonde’-haired cat named ANGEL! I was told...

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That’s a lot of hot air! Kewl Kindness!

I was walking towards the Grocery Story safety cross-walk when I saw a silver-haired senior lady at her car. She was parked in the very first handicap parking space. She was just closing the back door...

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Silly and Scary Rescue Shopping

It took me awhile to make my way up a parking lot aisle, due to several cars needing to back out as I inched my way along. The parking lot to the grocery store was packed!  There was also a need to...

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Kindness is Kewl Cash!

Kindness is Kewl Cash! We are wealthy beyond our imaginations, in the amount of KINDNESS we have to SHARE! This Holiday Season and always; share a kindness, no matter how small. That kindness may PLANT...

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Bea Gaude, Be YOU!

I was shopping at SEARS, when I heard a woman call out to a Sales Associate for help. The woman wanted to knows the woman’s thoughts/opinion on an ‘across the shoulder’ purse the teen daughter wished...

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Words Can’t Describe the Feeling

WORDS cannot describe the FEELING I receive when I receive a SPARKLING-EYED SMILE from a recipient of a *SMILE! YOU’RE GREAT outlook shift tool; or a VERY GOOD YEAH YOU’RE YOU cheer I have given! I...

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The Easter Fonzie

EASTER is all about REBIRTH and RISING UP beyond challenges!  EASTER and SPRING are all about NEW GROWTH! At 12:00 midnight on April 4, 2015 I heard a WELCOMING, FAMILIAR MEOWWWW MEOWWW yelling at me...

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