Crackerberries's Blog, page 33

Lollipops and Lollygags

�� Lollipops used to be the reward at the doctor���s office for children if they were good during their office visit. I remember as a little girl going into Dr. Buzzell���s office, it smelled of stringent antiseptic and iodine. I would sit up on the cold table while he stuck a wooden stick half-way down...
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Kimchi

  KIMCHI: a spicy Korean pickle that my husband recently introduced me to and now I cannot get enough of it. We bought a 14 ounce jar of it at the supermarket for $4.99 and I was hooked. It was so tasty I believe we polished it off, me more so than hubby, in two...
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I’m Going to Journal…Again

Originally posted on Pride in Madness:
This year I stopped journaling. I have been journaling since I was in grade 7 (2001) but only have my journals from grade 9 to age 25 (2003-2014). Each school year or each calendar year is inside one year with a few summer journals as well. Ever since leaving…

Journaling

What a great day for J. Saturday is always my favorite journaling day. I get up early in the morning, before the sun even has time to think about rising its sleepy head over the horizon. I prepare a full pot of coffee, feed the cats, and make myself comfortable in my favorite chair. I���ve...
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Imperfect I Am

�� I want to rant about what I think. There are lots of words that I could have IMPOSED on. I prefer to do IT a little differently and INJECT what I feel about several I words. In case you haven���t figured it out, I���ll give you a little hint on what the common denominator...
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Hey There

HAPPY H-DAY. I am in a HURRY��today so I���m going to take a temporary HIATUS. I need to do some serious writing on the novel. I���ve been procrastinating because I���m writing about HEINOUS��crimes and it has made my mind all HEEBIE-JEEBIES. But I didn���t want to HINDER��my commitment so I figure I had to do...
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Grab Bag

As I ponder over all of the G word options I have for today���s blog, one thing comes to mind. A grab-bag. When I was a little girl, my grandmother would bring me ��� ��� I don���t know why I say my grandmother would bring me. She didn���t bring me anywhere. She never had a...
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FollyGoss

��F-Words I thought about writing a short story about a family of children who were all missing fingers. The reason was because it was their punishment for getting caught stealing. But they had to steal. It was the only way they could survive, and help the rest of the family survive. The punishment for not...
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Expectations

Expectation: the act or state of anticipating or looking forward to the coming occurrence; the act of considering something about to happen probable or certain. �� I confess, my expectations are set really high. I expect more from people than they usually deliver. Why? Because I expect people to act and perform like I do....
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Dreams

Dreams https://youtu.be/b35SkJdDGV4 Every human experience, every emotion, our deepest desires, our hopes, our fears can all be revealed in our dreams. Our hidden self that we try to keep from the outside world emerges from our subconscious. We see ourselves in the raw. We can be warned of potential danger or we can find answers...
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