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Lent- Day 5: My tears have been my food.

      “My dad is dying.”     Those words flashed through my mind and then hung, like weights, in my thoughts, in my heart, all day today.   My brother Joe called this morning and told me about his visit to see him yesterday. He’s back in the nursing home, having been discharged from…

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Water, ice and crumbling pearls.

  (Screenshot, “Boss”)    “I wonder what it’s like to take the shape of the space you’re in?” -Tom Kane, “Boss”     That scene, pictured above, from the defunct Starz drama, “Boss”, caught me. It’s part of the episode, “Ablution” in the second season. Mayor Tom Kane (Kelsey Grammer) in the middle of a…

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On Robin Williams and depression.

Like millions, I was shocked on Monday when I heard the news that beloved comic actor Robin Williams had taken his life. I wound up in tears over my iPad, my nephew Justin offering a brief but heartfelt, “I’m sorry”.    I grew up watching reruns of Mork and Mindy on Nick at Nite, and I’d…

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Transfiguring life.

(Source)   Yesterday was the Feast of The Transfiguration of Jesus, a day observed by millions of Christians worldwide. The story can be found in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke. Here it is in Matthew 17:   After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led…

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Some Saturday Stuff: July 12th.

Diane Keaton as Annie Hall.   Happy Saturday, All. I’ve been texted and questioned a few times this week on Instagram about how I’m doing, and I figure I’ll restate here: I’m okay. I haven’t been on Facebook for the past two weeks (well, I’ve logged into my dummy account to update this blog’s and…

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She’s still dying on Facebook.

Joscelyne’s Facebook profile.     Yesterday morning, I nearly choked on my coffee. The near-choke came while reading “She’s Still Dying on Facebook” at The Atlantic by Julie Binton. The story recounts the last days of Binton’s former BFF Leah which is on display in perpetuity on Facebook.   I’ve been obsessed with Lea’s Facebook profile…

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Well, well, well.

      Zoe has started doing this thing where she walks up to me, arms crossed, and says slowly, “Well, well, well.” I don’t where she got it from, but everytime she does it, I stop whatever I’m doing. I get befuddled and between laughs, I say, “I don’t know if I like you…

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Some Saturday Stuff: November 16th.

  Happy Saturday, folks. The picture above is a cropped bit of the results of my bloodwork taken at Northwestern and sent to the Mayo Clinic. Thanks be to God, the results showed no evidence of cancer! I got these Tuesday and would’ve posted them sooner, but Zoe caught a cold this week and promptly…

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Some Saturday Stuff- October 19th.

The world’s best hot chocolate, at The Chocolate Bar, Winchester, Virginia.     So I’m back home after a fabulous AND busy week down in Virginia with the BFF. I’ve now gone down there so much some Facebook friends are asking if I’ve moved. Nope, still in Jersey, just enjoying one of the benefits to…

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Who could ask for anything more?

  Joscelyne in 2011     We were darn near obsessed, my sister Jos and I.   Obsessed with the glitz and glamor of Hollywood past, of Marilyn Monroe, Ava Gardner, Jayne Mansfield, Rita Hayworth and Dorothy Dandridge.   Especially Dorothy. She was our poor, glamorous, unlucky in love, beautiful, dead starlet.   We watched…

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