Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark TMNT If you raised children in the United States who spent part of their childhood in the 1990’s, then chances are you know what TMNT means. It stands for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a wildly popular TV show with its accompanying plastic infinite range of toys. The Turtles are crime …
Today’s blog #2 Lynn Murphy Mark On leaving home Earlier today I had a phone conversation with a dear friend. I have known her for several decades and in many ways I owe her a debt of gratitude for something she did for me all the way back in 1995. She helped me get out …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark Two Roads I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost – The Road Not Taken, 1915. Whenever this poem comes into …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark Spring Forward, Fall Backward August is almost all gone. Many schools are back in session and teachers are feeling the push and the rush to be sure everything is ready for their students. I just have to say, unless you know a teacher you can’t know the busyness of preparing …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark A quiet Saturday morning Today I slept past my usual 5 – 5:30 am wake time. It was almost 7:00 when I decided I should get up and get going. Then I remembered that I have nothing on my calendar for which to get going. Yesterday felt like a long …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark Pure evil Last Friday a friend of mine suggested that I read an article in the Atlantic magazine. In her text she wrote, “It’s truly unbelievable that we live in such a time that this is possible. It is truly beyond comprehension that one person can have this much power.” …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark Let go of my Lego! Building Lego sets is a big part of my children’s growing up. Their father has thousands of pieces in plastic storage bins and when our grown children visit there is sometimes a revival of the glory days of building structures spontaneously. In the beginning of …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark Get the plumber! Yesterday was Jan’s birthday, so it was a day to celebrate just for that alone. We did go to dinner with good friends and she got calls throughout the day with birthday wishes. She got her piece of carrot cake from Bristol’s and was quite happy with …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark More than a destination I had never been to a destination wedding out of all the ceremonies I’ve attended over the years. That is, until my daughter and future son-in-law announced that they were going to get married – happy news indeed – followed by the news that the wedding …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark You’re not in Kansas anymore So far I’m pleased with a couple of results from the primary elections on Tuesday. I am happy that a nurse from Missouri might be sent to Washington, DC, to heal the Senate. She’s a former hospice nurse so she’ll know how to treat the …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark Forgiveness At church yesterday the lesson topic was on Forgiveness. Our minister gave many reasons why choosing forgiveness is good for body, mind and soul. Forgiveness is one way, as they say in 12 Step meetings, to “clear the wreckage of the past.” When I think back far enough I …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark A trip away from a fall Who among us has not felt like escaping regular life once in a while? My life here is busy and fulfilling, but I still need to get away to a different landscape and to the precious people that inhabit it. Doing so makes returning …
The sweet side of mean It’s been 16 months since we rescued Mollie from an unscrupulous hobby breeder in Southern Missouri. We suspected, but didn’t know for sure at the time, that she has a very damaged psyche. She lived in a rubber shed with a pack of hyperactive dogs. She was bred three times …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark Justice served? Last night I was in the living room attending the church of major league baseball. The Blue Jays were having their way with us. It was a dreadful game. Oh well, you can’t win them all. I left “church” and remoted my way down the channels to MSNBC. …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark Books and more books Some people collect artifacts, porcelain figurines, photographs, and all manner of things. My weakness is books. I have three bookcases pretty much filled with books and random precious knickknacks that have floated into my life over the years. There are quite a few books that I …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark Oprah and me Oprah and I have something in common: at several points in our lives we’ve actually been within a “normal” weight range. Which also means that there have been times when we’ve been off the reservation and back up in the hefty category. And, we have both had …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark Glass half full My preference is to see the glass with something in it, on its way to being full. Some days that is harder than others. I’ve barely been up for an hour and already the day is taking a shape that might carry a problem or two. I …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark Quality or quantity? Jan and I are in our seventies. That means we have lived a long time and managed to accumulate a fair amount of stuff. We have moved from state to state twice in the last six years. Each time we got ready to move we “downsized” by …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark To Infinity…and Beyond In my lifetime my view of the Universe has changed dramatically. I have a childhood memory from the 1950’s when we lived in Mexico City at an altitude of over 8,000 feet. Back in those days there was not an ugly smog cloud hiding the sky. I …
Today’s blog Lynn Murphy Mark 50/50 Last night I took two little boys to a Cardinals game. It was their first experience and I wanted it to be perfect, or as good as it gets with a 3 ½ year old and an almost 5 year old. We pulled into the lot downtown and the stadium …
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