Category: Enjoyment
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Waiting for Opening Day

Now that the football season is over (still no plans of watching the Super Bowl with those two teams playing), it is time to enjoy Winter Festivals, the Chicago Blackhawks, and wait for NCAA March Madness and Opening Day. Great news last week with the Washington Nationals signing the Detroit Tiger pitcher, Max Scherzer who…
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Taken 3 Movie Review

Amazingly it has been over a month since going to the movie theater and the first movie outing of the year had a good start with Taken 3. I have been a Liam Neeson fan since the 1990s after watching him in the film Michael Collins and have enjoyed his transformation into an action star…
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Sunday Morning Bookstore Memory

Life is filled with events and situations that create perfect memories that if you are lucky enough you have the opportunity to experience more than once. Some of the memories created may be very simple ones like a meal at your favorite restaurant that is perfect every visit, revisiting your special vacation spot every year,…
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Christmas Shopping

Enjoy the last few days of Christmas shopping. Following are photos of some of my favorite Christmas shopping memories.
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Simple Joys of the Holidays

During the holidays I treasure the simple joys of Christmas music, movies, and decorations; Christmas cookies; my Yorkie, Gabby, deciding we are going to have the twenty-five days of Christmas as she begins to open her presents early and stand underneath her Christmas stocking each night; decorating day of the family Christmas tree that…
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Sunday Morning Bicycle Ride in the Fall

Starting in mid-August I begin to wait for all of the wonderful things that fall brings. It starts with college and pro football, fall fashion magazines, the new fall television shows, apple cider and donuts, crisp mornings and evenings, breaking out the hoodies and fall boots, snuggling under the blankets and the changing color of…
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Mackinac Island: Life is Sweet!

Last winter we watched the excellent documentary Ice Bridge: Mackinac Island’s Hidden Season and while we were not ready to rent snowmobiles to visit Mackinac Island in the middle of a very harsh winter, we decided to visit the island in the summer. It had been over thirty-five years since I had visited Mackinac Island…
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Sunday Mornings

I have never asked another introvert which part of the week is their favorite, but as an introvert I would choose Tuesday, Thursday night and Sunday morning. The latest DVD and book new releases are on Tuesdays and I have discovered for social occasions I prefer going out on Thursday night compared to Friday…
