October 2015
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After our trip to Toledo last week, I’ve been feeling lonely for my girlfriends…the ones I left behind in February of 2014. For the most part, I didn’t socialize much with them the last 5 years I Was in Iowa because of my state of mind. I miss them! There is a connection with girls Read more
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In September of 2007, I started a blog on Xanga and used the moniker, Ninasusan. My old friend Jeff aka Ground Hog (ghog) brought me to the table. I had no idea how that decision would change my life. Somehow in the huge blogesphere a blog written by a woman named Tracy caught my attention. Read more
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We don’t have a landline. It is kind of strange. When my girls were young, I would never had gone without a landline…even when we moved into the cell phone age…I always wanted that assurance that they could find us where ever we were. Before we left Iowa, I basically paid the ridiculous fee for Read more
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After two seasons of watching Royals baseball, I feel like I’ve come home to baseball. I grew up loving baseball and the *whisper….National League Cincinnatti Reds. I wish I could watch a game with my dad one more time…he taught me well and I soaked in the passion from him. Baseball fans, like other sports Read more
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I’m confident that the more I’m able to process the quietness of my soul, the easier it will be for me to shut it down and appreciate the individual moments. Each time I realize I have too many thoughts deflecting peace of mind, the quicker I seem to be able to shut it down! It Read more
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Watching Jax sit on Papa’s lap this morning watching SquareBob Stretch pants…or whatever it is called…I realized that my husband of 36 years is simple. I’ve known for many, many years that there is something genuine, calm but with a short fuze but peaceful in his soul. I used to envy his ability to sit Read more
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As I was poking around my scar this morning, I realized that today is the 4 month mark post nephrectomy. Palpating the skin around my scar has become a weird obsession for me. Since he mentioned this little ritual to my gorgeous urologist a couple of months ago, I mostly do it in private. The Read more
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Chuck Todd now hosts a Meet the Press daily show on MSNBC (MTP Daily). I really like Chuck Todd because he is not afraid to ask the difficult questions to the politicians….and during this chapter of my life, I find myself buried in the political BS. I tend to lean toward the left in my Read more
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..or at least for an hour…we’ll try an hour…I’m realizing I may have an addiction which is causing me to be unproductive. It’s not really the social media aspect – which I’m actually finding to be monotonous (looks like too many O’s). But it is my curiosity and my IBOOK and Kindle habit which has Read more
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Not so many years ago, I woke up crabby every morning. Okay…let me start again because I still do. Not so many years ago, when the first thing went wrong in my day…wrong meaning not in line with my planned schedule of how I should feel or what I should do or what happens to Read more
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