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I Love You More Than ...

Weird English Expressions

Dancing Fairies

Bravely, She Started Over ...

The Sunshine Blogger Award

A Little Riddle

No More Words, Show Me

Chasing the Elusive ...

Personality of the Hands

What Makes Someone a Poet?

Does Age Affect How we See Life?

A Toast to Love

"Heard on a Porch Swing"

Can I be Mad at the Hand I was Dealt?

"Windows in Heaven" Revisited

My Most Valuable Lessons

Good Children's Poets

"Windows in Heaven"

Remember BURMA-SHAVE?

So, You Left a Bad Relationship?

To a Homeless Man

C.J.'s Little Girls on the Ice

Guest Post: by Sheila Dembowski

So You Want to be a Writer?

15 Hilltop Drive

Writing for Children

Seaside Memories

Of Bravery and Courage

Looking Back ...

Recollections From My Youth

All Children are Born Innocent

There's Magic in Pretending

What is a "Barking" Spider?

The Crone and Her Dog

Two Preschool Adventures

Standing My Ground

A Toddler Titled My Book

Spending my Golden Years

The Gift of Being Truthful

What do you Like to Do?

Children as Teachers

When Love is Wrong

Surprise, Surprise

55+ Community Living

Books, E-books, or Audiobooks?

Most Insensitive Thing Asked ...

Childhood Food Nostalgia

A Yardstick for Living

Letters, I've Got Letters ...

A Trick of the Heart

Just One of Those Days ...

School Visit Ice Breakers

Poems From My Inner Child and Me

Giggle-Worthy Florida Towns

My Friend: Russell D. Daily

Cognitive Behavior Therapy

We All Have a Pet Peeve

Emotional Poetry: Show vs. Tell

The Most Useful Advice

Toddlers: Choices: Tantrums

My 'Accidental' Favorite Job ...

Teaching Kids to Help Out

"My Thoughts, His Whispers"

How's The Weather Up There?

Selective Memory Loss

"Eleven Hungry Cats"

Why Would a Man Cry ...

Transitional Words and Phrases

Idealist or Realist?

Letter to my Grandchildren

A Southern Visit to Friends

Questions and Answers

When the Sad Days Come

The Chocolate Pudding Fruit

The Word of the Day is "Accept".

The Naiveté of Words

Precocious is as Precocious Does

Parenting: Life Skills and Then Some ...

If You Love Someone, Show Them

The Importance of Fathers

Our Family's 15 Minutes of Fame

The Morel Mushroom

Bedtime Stories

Valentine for Mommy and Daddy

A Lifetime of Hair

The City's Underbelly

In the Writing Groove

What's the Lure of an Aloof Person?

Keys 'n Ants 'n Caterpillars

Rainbows and Smiles

Potty-Training 101

Black or White to Gray

A Hero Named Harley

Growing as a Writer

This WARNING is Over

Our Right to Make Choices

Writing: a Mental Lava Flow

What's in a Name?

Writing "Rules" or Writing "Process"?

Earth: Predictably Unpredictable

The Simplicity of a Snowflake

TWA: The Red Eye

Autism does not Mean "Broken"

The Magic Banana

An Intriguing Writing Prompt

The Front Porch of Forever

Teens: Testing their Wings

For Amity: "Gramma's Apron"

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