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Circus Peanuts
What’s your favorite candy? Spoiler alert- circus peanuts aren’t actually my favorite candy. But they have been on my mind a lot lately, and I’ve been eating them almost every day. Circus peanuts are old school! They are an American candy that’s marshmallow-y, fat, peanut-shaped, and orange. They taste like what I imagine styrofoam would…
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Night Owls Vs. Early Birds (Part II)
What happens when we’re up all night? Or half of it? When I was working third shift as an RN, I’d get home around 8 or 830 in the morning and then try and sleep for at least 6 hours or so. It worked sometimes, but sometimes it didn’t. Even when I got sleep, I…
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Information/Breaks
Do you need a break? From what? We all need breaks from time to time. I’m finding lately that what I want a break from is information. There is so much. All the time. At our fingertips. And it’s not always good, or accurate. There are times too, when I just want to stop and…
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Invented
I’ve been around over half a century… So when I think about inventions, I had to google it because there have probably been a lot of them. The term “google it” for one. The internet is up there as one of the most important inventions of the last 50-plus years, and computers as well. Computers…
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Night Owls Vs. Early Birds (Part 1)
I’ve always thought of myself as a night owl. I naturally tend toward being awake later at night, when things are quiet and there isn’t much to do as far as errands, social events, etc., and I can just do my own thing. But then I started working night shift after graduating from nursing school.…
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A Perfect Day
What’s a perfect day like? A perfect day is waking up, having coffee, time for praying and meditating… reading… writing… eating toast… going for a walk… writing and reading some more… drinking more coffee… eating pizza for lunch… going to a bookstore… time with family and friends… time for arts and crafts… going out for…
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Significance… and Perspective
There are 4 or 5 events that have a lot of significance to me. The birth of each of my 2 kids. My marriage. My divorce. The day I graduated nursing school in the middle of a pandemic. Those are the big ones. More than anything, those events show me how much I have to…
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Favorite Foods to Cook-Cacio de Pepe
Pasta. Cheese. Pepper. Pasta water. That’s it! That’s all that goes into this dish. I love it so much, I could probably eat it every day. Along with pizza. But that’s another story. I’m an Italian girl (mom’s side), and chalk up my love of Italian food and obsession with pecorino romano to my ancestors.…
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Meet the Commodore 64/128
Oh, she was a beast. My first computer, along with the printer, the disk drive (which took my all-time favorite, floppy disks), and all the rest of the stuff, was huge by today’s standards. A lot of it was the monitor. But I had a lot of fun on that computer. We had a game…
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Grab Your Blankie, We’re Taking a Nap
I have to admit that I am not the greatest sleeper, and I rarely take naps. However, it turns out there’s a recent study in NeuroImage that talks about how even a brief nap can help us learn (see link below). But what if we aren’t good nappers? I remember way back in first grade.…
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