My eating, the Mirror, the scale, video of me performing (Egads!) There is no denying it. I have become a fat bitch again. Don’t despair folks. We obese people can say these things about ourselves. And no matter how many of my dear ones smack my hand or pound the table as they offer their [...]

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is definitely the people watching. I sit here as people, sometimes alone, often in groups enter the cafe either confidently like regulars or tentatively as though they are waiting for an armed booby trap to spring.

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The title of this blog is taken from one of my favorite greeting cards. I wrote a different title back in March, shortly after my last post and saved it as a draft. The title was The Ugly Truth. Just a title no content. It’s probably better that I didn’t post it. I can’t really [...]

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I know I promised to post this past weekend… ended up having fun again… Stay tuned…

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But I’ve been having too much fun sharing cocktails with friends, going to the occasional movie, meetings and cleaning my house! I am a happy girl at the moment. It’s amazing what seeing the floor of one’s bedroom will do for one’s enthusiasm for life… I’ve been working on a few blog posts that I [...]

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So, you may have wondered where I’ve been for the past few weeks.  I’ve been here having all kinds of fun and confusing times but you know what?  Thanks to Facebook  -  I can’t blog about it.  Well, I could blog about it but the characters involved are so distinct and such that I would [...]

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I stay in bed until the last possible moment. Thank goodness the club is across the street from my hotel. I keep pushing the alarm time forward a half hour and finally – after hitting the snooze button several times on my cell – I drag my ass out of bed. My knees are aching [...]

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I am packed: clothes, laptop, camera, plugs, adapters, power converters, sheet music, lyrics, feather boa and snow boots. It’s cold in Riga but the weather is better than last week when temperatures barely made it above zero. Now, there’s plenty of snow and highs in the low twenties. It’s practically a heat wave! Packing stresses [...]

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I am so excited!! Five days of movies! Movies! Movies! I hope I don’t O.D. on butterred popcorn.

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Cause evidently a lot of folks have been confused by the registration procedure. We have even made a little “how to” video!!! Mostly, folks get confused when the “register” links them to the WORDPRESS page. Just follow the instruct.

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