Category Archives: Living Fully

Smiles

cheerfulmonk. Creative Commons license. Always remember to be happy because you never know who’s falling in love with your smile. ~Anonymous I can’t say if anyone has ever fallen in love with one of my smiles, but I sure have … Continue reading

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Having Fun

  A lot of people write about how adults have lost the ability to play, to have fun. As I’ve said before, I’ve never grown up. This picture is a great symbol for how I spend most of my time: … Continue reading

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Gone But Not Forgotten

cheerfulmonk. Creative Commons license.   As I mentioned last month, my granddog Banshee passed away. I’ve been thinking of her a lot this past week because I’ve been tackling a pile of paperwork. The above picture reminds me that I … Continue reading

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Honoring the Easter Bunny

The Easter Bunny isn’t just for kids. Last year I wrote about my Easter Egg Hunt… my search on the internet for Bunny Basket Eggs. For years my husband would dutifully look for them in the stores as soon as … Continue reading

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How Do You Feel About Work?

  I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. —Jerome K. Jerome It’s no fun having nothing to do. What’s fun is having something to do and not doing it. —Mark Twain   … Continue reading

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Not So Wise?

cheeerfulmonk. Creative Commons license.   homo sapiens (Latin): knowing man or wise man Which species do you think is the wisest? Cats or humans? 🙂 Thanks to bikehikebabe, Rummuser, Looney, desolare and Cathy for commenting on last week’s post.

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Side Trips

cheerfulmonk. Creative Commons license.   That quote by Earnie Larsen is one of my favorites. For me the purpose of goals is to keep me engaged in life. It’s the experience itself that counts, the goals themselves can be flexible. … Continue reading

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Three Epitaphs

The children of Israel wanted bread And the Lord sent them manna, Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife, And the Devil sent him Anna. —In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery One of the assignments in my daughter’s latest MBA class will … Continue reading

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Passing Away

As I mentioned in Their New Car last September, this is a picture of Banshee (on the left) and Sammy in the Honda Element that was bought for them. Kaitlin and Torben often make the long drive to Torben’s family … Continue reading

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We Need To Talk. Really?

cheerfulmonk. Creative Commons license.   The above cartoon was inspired by a cartoon in Science Magazine a few years ago. I was tickled that the magazine actually included a cartoon and that the above idea was used in an article … Continue reading

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