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A Queen in the Country of Myself – Imagine

Sometimes I feel like a queen in the country of myself. I am large and comfortably in charge […]

Cuddah, Wuddah, Shuddah, Didn’t, Done! Translation: Could have, Would Have, Should Have, Did Not, Done!

I wrote a piece a couple of days ago in which I apologized to myself. I would be […]

I apologize to myself: for the opportunities I’ve squandered along the way, for challenges I avoided, for not […]

Seems that a lot of people I’ve run into recently have strong opinions about Oprah. In the space […]

I was planning to write on something else today – Oprah envy and rumors – but something else […]

Hi, a reader asked me to share this information and so I am.She writes: Your readers may be […]

I actually think that I am going to implode one day and it won’t be because of the seriously […]

I have just returned from a very pleasurable five-day visit to California. (Did you miss me?) We visited […]

There are a lot of things that are pleasurable and free but today I’m talking about the pleasure […]

“He lives in an ordinary, all-American sort of place…” begins an article by David Mehegan in the Boston Globe […]

So many of us limit ourselves. It is easy to do. It is difficult to counter the negative […]

There are folks that I won’t go out to dinner with any more. They like to complain, compare […]

There have been times in my life when nothing much was going on except the routine things of […]

Every single human being is a miracle of conception and construction (and, for now at least, a miracle […]

I have observed that when dogs and cats see other dogs and cats, they rub against each other and […]

In the past couple of weeks I’ve had some close encounters with some folks I know that fit […]

Sometimes I surprise myself. Sometimes I surprise others. I surprised myself and my family when I recently did […]