StarStruk By Life

My own look at the world and its inhabitants…

My “good morning” photos…

I’m not sure how it started. A year and a half ago, we moved from Massachusetts to the coast of Maine to be near my now 98-1/2 year old dad-in-law. Since the first time I set eyes on this  area in 1974, a certain portion of my heart has been lost…I am the luckiest woman […]

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What’s in a name…

When I was pregnant with our first, we could not come up with a girl’s name. The boy’s name was easy…we both agreed immediately that if we had a boy, we knew what his name would be. Wouldn’t you know, our first was a girl. By the time it came to fill out the form […]

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Like a roly-poly bug…

When I was growing up in the Southern California desert, my sisters and I spent almost all our free time outside…when we weren’t riding our bikes or hitting tennis balls off the garage door, there was lots of playing in the dirt. I was always fascinated by the pill bugs (some people call them roly-poly […]

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Giving it all away…

In the process of merging our belongings, gathered over 37 years of married life spent moving from state to state with two children, with those of my in-laws, gathered over nearly 70 years spent moving from country to state to country to state with two children, we have become masters of toss toss toss. “Toss”, […]

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Summertime food cravings…

I have been having some pretty intense food cravings lately…I’m thinking maybe I am channeling my 26 week pregnant daughter…when I was pregnant with her, my cravings changed month to month; apples, celery, grapefruit…I swore I was going to turn into whatever it was of which I could not get enough… My cravings this month […]

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What a week…

This was quite the fecund week around here. It rained and misted and fogged, with temperatures in the 50s and 60s. My pansies from last year spontaneously regenerated themselves and are in their full egg yolk yellow glory under the hummingbird feeder.  I bought a beautiful red verbena to hang on the front porch and […]

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Happy Mom’s Day, Mom…

I remember when I was pregnant with my first child…I was 28, we had been married for nearly 5 years, we both had jobs…I was ready, right? Mmmm…no…the first day home with my 2 day old daughter, after Hus went back to work, I remember hugging her and crying, thinking that I had no idea […]

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In a fog…

I am in a fog in more than one way… I am in a fog of waiting… …waiting to become a Grammy, as far away from me my first-born carries her first child. I cherish each photograph of her swelling body and each blog post in which she shares the smaller things…what memories it brings […]

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SPANX me…

OK, I know that sounds really kinky, but the whole world has been talking about SPANX…the story of the woman who invented SPANX, the fact that a lot of those smooth lines and sexy curves we see on TV are presented to us by SPANX-like gut and fanny tamers…now it seems that SPANX have come […]

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