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Sunshine and a Wringer Washer

  Isn’t it strange how sounds can take you back in time. Whenever I wash clothes and hear the sound of the washer agitating it takes me back through the generations of women in my family.   I remember my grandmother, my Nanny, sorting clothes on the kitchen floor on laundry day. Lights, darks, towels,

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Review: Sentey Flow Headphones

[contentblock id=2 img=gcb.png] This month, I had the opportunity to review the Sentey Flow Headphones   Photo links to Sentey     The Sentey Flow headphones are very cute and come in 3 different color combinations – red and black, blue and white, purple and white.  I received the blue and white pair as you can

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Get Out of My Head

Today’s prompt is “frozen” Ugh. Every time I hear the word frozen that song just starts playing in my head. You know that song. It doesn’t just play once, It plays over and over all day long. This might just be a phenomenon of people of a certain age. I am not sure. All I know

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How to Make Her Stop Yapping

We now have neighbors above us who have a dog. Our dogs, Vinny and Chiquita have a real issue with this. Every time they hear the dog upstairs, they bark. Every time they hear the people upstairs, they bark. We live in an old building with beautiful original hardwood floors, plaster and lathe ceilings and

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Silence is Not Golden

I understand now why my grandmother had the TV on all the time, even when she wasn’t watching it. After having a houseful of people for most of your life it’s really hard to be alone.  The silence can be so deafening. I find that if it is too quite then the thoughts start to

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