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Day 298: What January’s Good For

Posted on 01/05/2021 by chick

I don’t believe in making New Year’s resolutions, because I don’t think that January 1st is a good day to start new habits. Like most people I am naturally drawn to beginnings of time frames for making changes in my … Continue reading →

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Day 297: An Axolotl Lives Here

Posted on 01/04/2021 by chick
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Day 296: Message for 2021

Posted on 01/03/2021 by chick

P.S. In case you were wondering about the origin of this message, it was written on a small piece of seashell from a Rhode Island beach by a Rhode Island craftsperson. It came from a bag of random seashell messages … Continue reading →

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2020’s Most Memorable Reads

Posted on 01/03/2021 by chick

Here is a list of the five most memorable books I read in 2020. Two were rereads. Three were new to me. Doctor Dolittle’s Circus by Hugh Lofting, A-: I had forgotten why I loved the Dr. Dolittle series so … Continue reading →

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Day 295: Album

Posted on 01/02/2021 by chick

I spent most of my day working on my 2020 photo album. I’ve made many albums over the years, so it’s a familiar task, but each album presents its own special difficulties and requires its own unique solutions. This one … Continue reading →

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Forgotten Pictures of 2020

Posted on 01/02/2021 by chick

While working on my 2020 photo album, I found some photos that I thought might be fun to share. .

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Day 294: The Farce is Far from Over

Posted on 01/01/2021 by chick

I couldn’t help laughing with a grim sort of humor when I read this paragraph in an article from The Atlantic today. In 2019, the Global Health Security Index used 85 indicators to assess how ready every country was for … Continue reading →

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Day 293: Year’s End

Posted on 12/31/2020 by chick

On this last day of the year, I worked on some tasks from my to-do list, and even finished (finally!) the large version of the 2019 photo album. I told my inner perfectionist to be quiet as I hit the … Continue reading →

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Day 292: K is for Kindness

Posted on 12/30/2020 by chick

Earlier today I saw a Facebook meme that asked me for a positive word, specifically one starting with the first letter of my first name, to act as a wish for a better year ahead. “K” is a common starting … Continue reading →

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Day 291: Unscathed

Posted on 12/29/2020 by chick

As I mentioned in a post last week, the weather for Christmas was expected to be bad. That forecast turned out to be accurate. The wind howled and the rain poured. For a while it looked as though we might … Continue reading →

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