Sunday, July 28, 2019
A Woman's Journal Of The Latter Years (Page 2)
July 29, 2003 As usual, I am working on my birthday. In the nursing profession, one is always needed--the only days off one can count on are your scheduled days off, and even then they always try calling you to come in. Time and a half for overtime is not very appealing to one who has reached the...
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Saturday, July 27, 2019
A Woman's Journal Of The Latter Years
Date - July 29, 2002 Today I am old. Today I begin to receive Social Security Payments. Today I begin Medicare Coverage. Today is the beginning of the last segment of my life. What should I think? How should I feel? The old people at Woodbine like me because I am old...not quite as old as they, but...
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Monday, July 22, 2019
On Being Entertained
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." So begins a book I keep on hand to carry me away to a world of multifarious incidents, people and tidbits, that forever entertain. It is a...
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Saturday, July 20, 2019
The Mind Is A Funny Thing (Not Funny HA HA)
I wrote a post in my mind while cleaning the kitchen today. It entertained me while I worked and I just knew that it would entertain a few of you. When the kitchen was sparkling clean, my next plan was to write my Blogit post, but I was so tired as old people get, I thought I would refresh myself...
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Friday, July 19, 2019
A Long Hour And Five Minutes
I was cooking Chinese for supper and the power went out. Everything we have and use is electric. The temperature 99 degrees with heat index of 110 degrees. Even our phone does not work if the computer is dead. I told Ribcage not to go out in the heat, but he was determined to find out if it was just...
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