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Do Butterflies sleep?
Friday, November 17, 2023
I've had three things to happen to me lately about my writings and other people.
#1 At a family reunion, one of my husband's nieces (in-law) came up to me and said, "I didn't know you were a writer." I asked how she knew now. She said she was on Amazon looking for a book and one of the suggestions was by me!
#2 One of our church members saw my books for sale in a local store. She told me she knew I had written a book, but she didn't know how many!
#3 My neighbor found a little packet of sign language stationary at a secondhand store. She knew I know sign language so showed it to me. I grinned and told her that I had made that! She said no, it had a price on it. I said, yes, the price is in my handwriting! :) I guess it was one that I had sold or given away and it ended up at the secondhand store.
Neat huh?!
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
TEENAGERS
1820 teen as an adjective or noun; 1895 teener; 1925 teenage – adjective or noun; 1955 teenaged.
My
guess is adults. They worked, raised families, went to college and fought wars.
I believe today many of the people those ages
have too much time on their hands and do not know what to do with it. They sit
home alone while both parents work to give them things, wander the streets, or
hang around in gangs. More young
people should strive to help their family and study hard to make something good
of themselves for their future family and our nation.
I know we cannot, in our society, have people
who are in their teen years doing all that was done back previous to a hundred
years ago, but we could give them more responsibility. Then they can feel as if
they were part of society and not just in ‘in between years’ waiting to grow
up.
Update 2022: During the past couple decades; I
have known parents who have looked at their child-rearing years as ‘raising
future adults’. Each of those families has succeeded in their effort and I
watched their children become responsible adults without a lot of heartache.
I have wanted to share this for a long time but being I did not have a ‘solution’ to the situation, did not know how to do so. But, the last two mornings on the radio show Focus on the Family, there was a man talking about Parenting Teens Toward Adulthood. It was a two-part program. I would suggest that if you have children that you listen to these programs. He has a solution to the dilemma parents seem to be facing today!
[1] Teenager – teenage – adj – or noun – b1925; teen – adj – or noun b1820; teener – 1895; teenaged – b1955; teen – v – annoy – b 1150 – English Through the Ages by William Brohaugh
Websters: P. 1211
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Monday, December 12, 2022
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
My weight loss journey ... continued.
I am doing a HAPPY DANCE, well, at least in my mind! I am 71 years old today. Praise God for another year! I weighed and measured today and that is why I am happy. I have not weighed these many pounds since 1993! And that was after I had moved to a new state and gained 10 pounds the first year! I am now down to 124.6. And in the last year I have lost 6 more inches!
I had come to a standstill again at 130 pounds last year on my birthday. Then in June of this year, I started watching my carb intake. Trying to make sure I was getting enough I need for energy, but less than I consumed before. And I got a jumpstart to lose more weight and inches.
Now, I want to try to stay at this size. Hopefully. Also, I am still (mostly) doing the South Beach Version. But, in June I read his book on South Beach, Keto Friendly.
Happy Birthday to me! Now, for Pizza and Cheesecake (GF) as a treat today!
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Saturday, September 3, 2022
Microsoft is telling me it is Hummingbird Day. So here is a group of pics I put together that I have taken. Keep in mind I am not a photographer. I am just a picture taker. I chose not to feed them this year. We have flowers so they can enjoy nature's way. So, we have not seen many. However, last week, I saw at least 5 playing around our bottle brush trees. I got a movie, but it is too long to post.