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Menopause
Oh there’s that.
It happens to all women.
In my family I’m right on track.
I’m 49. I have about two years until it’s done.
It’s an interesting experience. Your period means you can procreate.
I’m not a generation that sees women as something other than baby factories and child rearing stock.
It’s a precarious place to be for me.
I don’t have kids, so why should the end of my child bearing…
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The support of women
I recently went on a company team building ice skating outing at the iconic Bryant Park in New York City.
It was a beautiful thought and was much needed since we’re all gearing up for our busy season.
I talked a good game to my co workers. I used to skate every weekend! I could even do pirouettes and arabesque’s on the ice!
It’s true, way back when.
Close to 40 years after, turns out I…
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The one were my twin and I thought we would die at age 10
I remember my 5th birthday.
My twin brother and I couldn’t sleep that night. We knew there was an event happening.
The event was our 5th birthday.
For whatever reason, we thought we wouldn’t make it to 10.
We thought 10 was “old age”.
I slipped into my brothers bed. He was great full. Although he initially feigned annoyance.
We tried to sleep. But we talked instead. The jist was, he thought…
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Waiting for it to hit me
I lost my dad a month ago.
I was with him when he moved on.
I’m not a cryer.
I tend to compartmentalize things.
As I’ve compartmentalized his passing:
As he would’ve done.
We’re the same in that respect.
However, there were certain things he wanted.
He was specific In these wants.
Mom and I have taken care of his, with no tears;
I fear the tears that are coming. I will shed them with…
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Cat Zoom Call Christmas 2023
Belle
Sammy
Hey girl… whoa…. What’s that!?
Belle
My human. And a thing that makes noise. It’s making noises I don’t appreciate. It’s small but it sounds really overwhelming…
Sammy
I can hear! I literally jumped to a different place! Your human looks like it’s ignoring you.
Belle
It is, but that’s okay for now. It picked me up a while back and that’s not okay. Anyhoo, I called about…
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The Last Transition
The last picture of Benny Rodriguez 3/21/1940 to 12/8/2023
I lost my dad this past Friday 12:57am December 8, 2023.
That’s when our hospice nurse declared his passing.
They didn’t use the word death and now I see why. It’s so negative and final.
It implies the person is extinguished like a flame.
Gone from history.
I don’t believe that people are ever gone from history, they live on through…
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The Radio
The Radio. Fandango’s Story Starter #103
Fandango’s Story Starter #103
When Ida discovered that she could hear the voices of the dead speaking to her when she tuned into a certain radio station, she decided to live.
She had been planning on killing herself for the better part of a month and felt a sense of relief for the first time in years.
She’d been taking care of her mother most of her adult life and now she was gone. She’d lost…
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52nd Anniversary
52 years! Happy anniversary to my parents. Molly and Benny. They’ve been through so much.
My dad chatted up my mom on a NYC subway.
He thought she had great legs.
She was carrying some bags so naturally he offered to help.
That’s what he says but I think it was more. I think relationships that last this long are destined. Her soul pinged his soul.
From that subway ride came a lifetime, and…
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Father’s Day
Here is a tribute to my dad.
Benny Rodriguez.
He’s always there.
Always has been.
I’m successful because of him.
If I was having trouble in school, he broke it down.
I had problems with math. Because it didn’t speak my language.
My dad said something incredible.
Math is just problem solving.
That changed everything
I thought math was a way to make me feel stupid. Mostly because the…
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Today Many Years Ago…
Robert “Bobby” Dawson Rodriguez
A person was lost.
He was in turmoil, on trial, looking at a prison sentence.
He was also loved.
We had a barbecue the day before and I now know, he said goodbye.
To our little cousins, to me, to the world.
I went to bed, in a state of calmness because of this.
The next day, Memorial Day, everything changed.
He was gone.
Energy had shifted in real…
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Girl World
Watching previously loved 90’s films like Clueless and currently Mean Girls.
Problematic to say the least but it wasn’t recognized at this time.
Terms like “retarded” we’re thrown around at will. Any gay character was comic relief nothing else. Asians were “nerds”, there may or may not of been black characters, if there were they were downtrodden, villains or just tokens. All of them not really…
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Casey Anthony Doc
Just watched this.
Wow!
As a survivor of sexual abuse it hit home.
I remember this case. I along with everyone condemned her. She killed her kid so she could party like most people in their early 20’s. That was the narrative.
How could she smile when her child was missing?
Why was her child missing for a month and she didn’t report it?
It’s answered in this documentary. Somewhat,…
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Doll parts
This is the perfect song. So 90’s.
We’d just learned that we weren’t actually everyone else’s idea of what boys want. Even though we still were. On the outside. In the media.
It was a hard a pill to swallow. We had never been able to be “ugly” and feel something like okay with it.
Still not okay with it to be fair. You can’t reverse so many years of conditioning, but more than I was. Love…
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Cat Zoom Call, Christmas Issues
Cat Zoom Call, Christmas Issues
Belle calls Sammy
Harry picks up
Hello?
Harry? What are you doing with Sammy’s phone? Is she there?
She is and she’s being annoying! She’s near me!
It’s Belle. She called me while I was sleeping on your phone and she woke me up.
Number 1, DON’T SLEEP ON MY PHONE, Number 2, IT’S MY TURN TO BE ON THE BED!
Sammy it’s okay, take your time moving spots, I wanted to make a first impression…
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Molly Rodriguez
This is my mom. Very pregnant with twins.
She wasn’t prepared for twins, cried when she found out, but made it work.
With support of course from our amazing dad.
It’s her birthday today, 12-22.
As a kid it was difficult to find a gift for her this close to Christmas
Often it had to be combined. No one wants that on their birthday.
My mom has been a driving force in my success as an…
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Magical Norway from an American point of view
Magical Norway from an American point of view
I visited Scandinavia a couple years ago. Couldn’t tell you how many exactly, there were a couple years that disappeared in the pandemic.
I was shocked at their philosophy when it comes to government and what the government does for the people.
They have a philosophy. From the cradle to the grave.
It means, you will be taken care of your whole life by the government.
In America, that might…
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The Good in Humankind
The Good in Humankind
Reading the recent headlines it’s easy to loose faith in people.
Mass shooting in Colorado. Terrorist attack in Israel. A myriad of other more localized violence.
If you were an alien from another galaxy and you googled earth, you would think the worst. World wars, massacre’s, genocide.
All happened and happening as I write this.
However, having travelled the world, and I know I’m privileged…
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