birthday

(Today’s column)
“The Bucket List” is a film starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. I saw it several months ago and it just seems like the most relevant idea to me today.
Edward Cole (Nicholson) and Carter Chambers (Freeman) are terminal cancer patients with six months to live. They meet when they become roommates in the cancer [...]

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Have to go and blow the candles on my birthday cake.
P.S. My Tastebook is out. The link is on the sidebar.
P.P.S. I made a bucket list. You know, like you’ve lived half your life and you think about what else you want to do before the second half is over. It’s coming out [...]

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Sam is turning 16 on August 20 but we gave her the birthday gift of her choice last Sunday.

His name is Twix (after the breakfast cereal chocolate bar, according to Sam) and he’s a pomspitz — a crossbreed of a pomeranian and a Japanese spitz. And, yes, we keep him as far away as [...]

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Tito Rolly forwarded a very inspiring anecdote about a speech delivered by an 87-year-old professor. In part, it says:
We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing.
There are only four secrets to staying young… being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. [...]

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The title is a figure of speech, of course. Sunburn is always nasty but, today, it is simply an attestation to a very enjoyable swimming party.
But let’s start from the beginning.

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It’s going to be a busy weekend. But I feel energized. Actually, I feel great. For the first time in so many months, I’m writing the way I always wanted to. I finally acknowledged what had been staring at me in the face for a long time. Not following the political news — not paying [...]

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