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Middle aged, blessed and fit (to be tied): Goodbye, for Now...

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Middle aged, blessed and fit (to be tied). Sunday, September 2, 2012. Goodbye, for Now. Hi friends, just thought it was time I posted a quick update to let you know where I've been these past few months. As many of you know, I was accepted to the Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Nonfiction at Ashland University. I believe the process of starting and maintaining this blog had a great deal to do with my decision to apply to the program, and their decision to accept me. Featured Jobs by Indeed.com.

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Middle aged, blessed and fit (to be tied): Hell in a Handbasket

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Middle aged, blessed and fit (to be tied). Monday, March 26, 2012. Hell in a Handbasket. I’m not, nor can I ever remember being, one of those folks who thinks the world is going to hell in a handbasket. If optimism was easy, it wouldn’t be so refreshing when we come across it. Still and yet, sometimes I see things that leave me “smh” – shakin’ my head, as we texters and Facebookers are fond of saying these days. Under what circumstances would they forget, do you suppose? Or perhaps the sign is for the po...

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Middle aged, blessed and fit (to be tied): A Christian Nation? Politely Disagreein' (and quickly duckin')...

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Middle aged, blessed and fit (to be tied). Tuesday, June 5, 2012. Politely Disagreein' (and quickly duckin'). I have been grumping and grousing inwardly about an issue for several months now, and as much as it may offend or anger some people who are really important to me, I’m at that point. You know, the one where you just have to speak your mind and move on. It seems to me that our Founding Fathers left. 8220;You’re not the boss of me! 8221; But, well, she was. So they left. When they formed this More ...

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Middle aged, blessed and fit (to be tied): Because I Can

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Middle aged, blessed and fit (to be tied). Friday, April 6, 2012. I’ve placed a treadmill right smack dab in the middle of my living room. If you ask why, I will answer with a smug, cat-that-ate-the-canary smile, because I can. Even so, it has not been fun. And yes, plunking a treadmill, that no-way-to-make-it-pretty monstrosity, right in the middle of my living room. Because I’ve no one to check with, worry about, accommodate, or retreat for. In short, because I can. There’s only one person who mi...

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Middle aged, blessed and fit (to be tied): Ping Pong... Perception, Reality...

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Middle aged, blessed and fit (to be tied). Thursday, March 8, 2012. Ping Pong. Perception, Reality. I was thinking today about the difference between perception and reality at any given moment, and how that difference plays us sometimes, making fools of us either in that moment, or later. I do remember with great clarity, though, the moment I truly saw. This battle between perception and reality is like an ongoing, age-old ping-pong game in our lives. The jig is up, though, if we pass a mirror “out...

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Middle aged, blessed and fit (to be tied): Ah, Spring...

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Middle aged, blessed and fit (to be tied). Sunday, April 22, 2012. Artists of every type and stripe have struggled for centuries to describe the emotional explosion of springtime without coming off as a pseudo-artistic dork. It is the season of fresh, dew-drenched, flower-laden renewal, teasing our minds forward into daydreams of long, summer days and well-deserved vacations—but you can’t just go around saying that to people. They’ll have you committed. You see, I am my mother’s daughter—she ...Lucky for...

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Middle aged, blessed and fit (to be tied): The Damned Hydrangea...

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Middle aged, blessed and fit (to be tied). Tuesday, June 12, 2012. I had an argument with a hydrangea tonight. I just felt that I had reached my limit, I guess. The damn thing takes longer showers than I do. I mean, when I remember to water it. And yet, every day, I arrive home or come outside to see it there, looking pathetic, dried up, dead, as if nobody is even TRYING to take care of it. Tonight was the last straw. I watered it yesterday. (I think… didn’t I? It’s been a tug-o-war ever since....The hyd...