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TELLING YOUR STORY

by Judy Budreau Writer, teacher, editor, researcher…. Featured guest on Aging But DANGEROUS SIZZLE radio show 5-18-’13 KLBB 1220 AM Does Writing Your Life Story — your personal history — sound overwhelming, and maybe… not much fun? Then start with one story from your life,…

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DYING TO SHARE

I’m dying – someday!  Dying, or the conversation around items pertaining to dying seems a taboo topic.  You can’t even use ‘died’ anymore, people “pass”.  That just kills me!  Are they in denial?  Do they think escaping their “transition” is an option?  There are matters…

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Bringing visions to life – the ABD Way

There are 2 schools of thought about visualizing something you want very badly in your life. One is, if you conjure up too grandiose a picture of what you would like to see happen in your life, you are sure to be disappointed. The official…

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GARDENING . . . on the cheap

A lot of people I know have contacted some kind of “cheap fever,” including me. It’s symptoms include measuring events by how much money you have relinquished to participate in them, (your ROF-Return On Fun), strategizing how to milk the most out of the bucks…

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A STRONG MESSAGE

“You are the source, You have the power, Make your dreams come true.” In this portion of our life – life on earth – we must travel in our bodies. The quality of our life and the ease with which we live our lives’ is…

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HITTING THE SHEETS AFTER 50

It really doesn’t matter what age you are, sex is a constant in our society.  It’s thrown at us from every angle, in magazines and television ads, and countless pieces of junk email talking about dating sites, better sex and penis enlargements.  Even health magazines dwell…

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YOUNG @ HEART and STILL SINGING

Several years ago when we heard Diamond Lillian Aubrey sing, (in her deadpan style), Manfred Mann’s “Doo Wah Diddy”, we fell in love – chin hairs and all.  (She is pictured above.)  It turns out that we are not the only ones.  The Young @…

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COMING OUT OF THE CLOSET – EXCITED ABOUT SPRING!

Spring wardrobe time!  Fashion magazines are fat with luscious, tempting and pricey little  tidbits that create a slight drool in the corner of our mouths.  If that lottery ticket would just come through we would be so exquisitely adorned for the season—or would we?  Spending…

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WHEN YOU’RE HOT, YOUR HOT . . .OR NOT!

Several years ago we did a survey asking women that we knew, what we thought was a serious question, “when was the last time you felt hot?’’.  (Hot as in sexy, not flashes.)  Replies ranged between not recently, to never.   NEVER?  We were amazed. Then…

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TOO POOPED TO POOP

When I was growing up it seemed my grandparents were obsessed with their bathroom habits. My grandfather and his good friend, Leo, compared toilet “events” and “triumphs” to the point of being truly disgusting. This phenomenon seemed to be just one of the ‘dangerous’ aspects…

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