My mother died suddenly last night in Maine.

We were a family of dancers......Mum will appreciate the title of this blog.

 I will miss her infectious giggle.

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Dorothy: How's the diet coming, Blanche?

Blanche: Oh, just fine. Piece of cake! – A big ol' piece of chocolate cake. Smothered in whipped cream and coconut flakes. And a lobster!

Not long ago, I caught this episode of The Golden Girls where Blanche went on a diet. And… Read full post »

Neat!!!

If I understand 'things' correctly.... those 'things' being everything about this OS website I found a short time ago.... the powers that be want postings about Good News on Sundays....

No blonde roots on me.....hehehe; hence the Good News Sundays title, peut-être?

The fact th… Read full post »

Hey idiots.... this is Sophia. (well, not really, but go with it.)

If I saw one of you, I saw 100 of you today.

And I saw about two..... that's 200 idiots.

Driving to St Olaf with Rose, we lost count of the places where your cars, trucks and semi-tractors were… Read full post »

On our last night in Dallas, my husband and I went to the controversial BODIES… The Exhibition featuring real, whole and partial body specimens that have been dissected and preserved through a plastination process displaying the complexity of the human body.

From their website: "To help you s… Read full post »

No mother's experience brings more tears than the loss of a child. From newborn to well into their adult years, a mother can only see that so much potential was ahead for them and in death it all ends.

I count myself fortunate, even blessed, to have not experienced this agony.… Read full post »

"Your girls are here."

My husband informed of this fact as he took his restaurant booth seat following a trip to the 'Cowboys Room' in the downtown restaurant.

Now beings how we are from Minnesooooooota and this was a Dallas eatery, there was no chance that anyone we knew would be… Read full post »

Just  this year my aunt said, "You are such a Pollyanna."

I remember trying to figure out if I should be offended or pleased.

"It's very refreshing," she added.

Several days later, I remembered her remark and looked up the definition: "an excessively or blindly optimistic person".

Still didn't k… Read full post »

Sometimes I think Candace Bushnell and Susan Harris visited my soul.

Bushnell created a humorous column for the New York Observer, which appeared from 1994 through 1996. Called "Sex and the City," the column was based on her own personal dating experiences and those of her friends. Like The Golden… Read full post »

My writing is absolutely brilliant... I could prove it if I had not just now deleted the new post to this blog.

But having only been on this site for three days, I have not figured out how to avoid mistakes..... and somehow I just deleted the past half hour of… Read full post »

I would wager that the character of Blanche would have - at the very least- cooed and snuggled with husband, George, when he romanced her on their 'date' nights. To hear Blanche recount stories of hermarried life, George was her one true romance. I believe that after his untimely death, Blanche's… Read full post »

Why am I doing this blog??? You see, when I was a newspaper personality, I had to write a regular column. I'm retired from the industry and I miss the challenge of writing ... and the outlet it gave me to have a say-so about any topic I chose (well within… Read full post »