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I Hope You Have a Thanksgiving Dinner That Can't be Beat.

Happy Thanksgiving wishes to y’all. I have shared this song each Thanksgiving since I started blogging in 2010. Hopefully, I’ll be around to do so again next year. Tom & Nancy, circa 1972, about six years before I met them. In memory of Tom & Nancy Hartmann. What I wouldn’t give to be able to spend just a few hours with them.  Instead, I am listening to the song, a tear or two in my eyes as I …

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A Splash Of Old Spice

This morning, as I showered and dressed, there was a bit of a ritual that included a splash of Old Spice from my dad’s last bottle. It was almost new when he died in 2019 and I only use it on special days and it may outlive me. 😊.  Old Spice reminds me of him as it was one-of his signature “things.”  I wonder how my daughters and grandchildren will remember me after I’m gone? Isn’t remembering a…

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Starting Early With The Massacree

Starting Early With The Massacree

Since starting my blogging journey back in 2010, not a Thanksgiving has gone by where I have not paid tribute to a late, dear friend who introduced me to this song and even gifted me with a vinyl copy. Tom & Nancy, circa 1972, about six years before I first met them. While Thanksgiving is still 28 hours away (at least here on the East Coast), I won’t have much time available between now and then,…

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Thanks, Nancy

Nancy Hartmann,  a long-time friend,  died last night.

Tom & Nancy, circa 1972. For those of you who have always taken photos with your phone, those are “real” cameras.

Her husband, Tom was my best friend for much of my late teens-20’s.  He died over twenty years ago, on their 25th wedding anniversary.

Too many stories to tell.

Fun stories.

Another chapter of my life is closed.

Thanks for the…

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