Rockin' the 60s and Beyond
You know those days when you look in the mirror and think, “No, that can’t be right,” and then quickly realize, yep, that’s you? With...
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Connie H Strong
- Dec 5, 2021
- 8 min
Losing the Norman Rockwell Façade — Or Maybe Not
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, at least according to posts on Facebook, Instagram, and any number of other social media...
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Connie H Strong
- Feb 11, 2021
- 7 min
Hearts, and Other Broken Body Parts
In case you haven’t noticed, Cupid is quarantined and that’s not love in the air, it’s Covid. Year Two of the pandemic is really...
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Connie H Strong
- Dec 23, 2020
- 7 min
Christmas 1918 — "Beware the Mistletoe"
Our Christmas tree is decorated, and the colorfully wrapped presents are waiting underneath for our Santa believers. The only things that...
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Connie H Strong
- Dec 15, 2020
- 7 min
Ho! Ho! Home for the Holidays!
Happy Thanks-Hallow-istmas! This year has been a mixed bag of emotion and mental challenges for all of us. We’re rounding the corner to...
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Connie H Strong
- Jul 15, 2020
- 8 min
Keeping the Old Man Out or Buying a Sock Monkey— The Choice is Yours
When it feels like 106 in the Texas shade and the skies are covered in Saharan Dust, it’s hard for me to don a Susie Sunshine smile and...
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Connie H Strong
- Apr 22, 2020
- 9 min
Depression VS The Great Depression— With Apologies to Eleanor Roosevelt
Here we are, Whateverday, the 76th day of April at about 45 o’clock— also known as the 666th day of 2020. This Baby Boomer feels like...
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Connie H Strong
- Mar 14, 2020
- 7 min
Hindsight in 2020
Here we are, right in the middle of March 2020 and I’m completely stunned at the events surrounding me. Coronavirus is dominating the...
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Connie H Strong
- Dec 23, 2019
- 6 min
Santa Claus is Coming to Town!
Ok, so maybe it's not exactly Rudolph and the gang, but as long as he makes it by December 25, I really don't care what Santa uses as his...
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Connie H Strong
- Nov 29, 2019
- 8 min
Grumpy Old Turkeys, Cranberry Sauce and Distance— But Not Mariah
Here we are again, on the cusp of the holidays. Usually, without fail, it’s my favorite time of the year, but this November I’m not...
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Connie H Strong
- Oct 25, 2019
- 6 min
BOO! It Runs in the Family
Apple cider, falling leaves, cooler weather, the approaching holiday season, chili, soup, pumpkin-spiced EVERYTHING… The list goes on....
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Connie H Strong
- Sep 3, 2019
- 8 min
Fighting Boredom with Boxes, Bottles and a Bucket
It seems the older we get, the less opportunities we have to experience something new. Yes, life can get boring, but only if we let it. Sinc
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Connie H Strong
- Jul 19, 2019
- 6 min
Hakuna Matata —The Golden Girls Way
Sophia — “People waste their time pondering whether a glass is half empty or half full. Me, I just drink whatever’s in the glass.” Few...
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Connie H Strong
- Apr 29, 2019
- 4 min
I Now Have a One-Year-Old!
My "baby" hit the one-year mark and I celebrated the event as if my little darling was an actual, living, breathing entity. This...
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Connie H Strong
- Apr 10, 2019
- 9 min
April: Osage County
There's something about Pawhuska, Oklahoma that feels like home. Regardless of where you travel from, the nostalgic feeling of "home...
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Connie H Strong
- Mar 9, 2019
- 7 min
Apron Strings and Kitchen Things
Kris Kristofferson is right, “There’s just something ’bout a Sunday…” Recollections of grandmas in aprons, who stood in bare feet,...
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Connie H Strong
- Feb 14, 2019
- 9 min
From Hooterville to Chappell Hill, Love is in the Air
With Valentine’s Day right rapidly approaching, stores are filled with frilly red and pink consumer enticement, and every guilt-inducing...
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Connie H Strong
- Jan 27, 2019
- 7 min
"Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, It's Off to Work We Go"
Baby Boomers are familiar with change, uncertainty and the need for resilience, and sometimes that comes in the unnerving form of being...
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Connie H Strong
- Dec 31, 2018
- 6 min
Is it Really Such a Wonderful Life?
As we’re picking up the last shreds of wrapping paper and carefully packing away the ornaments for next year’s holiday season, a new year...
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Connie H Strong
- Dec 8, 2018
- 5 min
Do I Look Like June Cleaver to You?
With Thanksgiving now behind us and Christmas quickly approaching, we'll all put our best foot forward. Facebook posts, Instagrams,...
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