everything lovely & good

excerpts of a real life with fairytale moments

Last Sunday would have been my friend Carrie’s 34th birthday.  I felt emotional and sad and wanted desperately to just pull the covers up and hide for the entire day.  I didn’t know how to handle it.  My boss, an amazing woman suggested sending her a card; so I did.  It was a comedy of …

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You know, Miss Ruth was a lady. And a lady always knows when to leave. (Fried Green Tomatoes) Four months shy of her eighteenth birthday we said so long to our beloved kitty Gertrude.   Gertrude was a beautiful, spunky, bright-eyed tortoiseshell cat-dog with just the right mix of ‘tortitude’, generous love and affection, a kitty …

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