My sister clued me in to two sports she has been playing for close to a year now: pickle ball and wally ball.   She has been playing  several days a week (four days out of seven, two to three hours at a time) and gets lots of exercise because she LOVES them.   So…

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I’ve been so busy writing copy and content for clients for the past week or so that I haven’t had time to write my own blogs.   I’m not complaining!   It’s terrific that I’ve had work because I’ve just had an extra expense pop up that I wasn’t expecting — to the tune of…

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Now that it’s certain Bernie Sanders will declare himself a candidate for POTUS in 2020, I see Democrats hauling out the dirty laundry from the 2016 election cycle, bemoaning the “fact” (ha ha ha ha ha) that he stole the election out from under poor unprotected Hillary Clinton, therefore saddling us with Trump.   Has…

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There’s an internal “checklist” within Yoast SEO that gives every blog I write a “Readability Score.”   It’s lame.   Really lame.   It tells me my blog posts aren’t very readable.  I commonly get a red readability score. Red is bad!   Excuse me?   This is because I write sentences that are  frequently…

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Beyond Trump (which–please, voters!–will be in 2020) there will be challenges galore, but they will appear more manageable because formerly-complacent voters are complacent no more, and because there are more of us than there are of racist, sexist, misogynistic, xenophobic, homophobic Trumpsters–thank God!   There are also a lot more women and other under-represented people…

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Sadly, I don’t think Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (or any other Black American) would be at all surprised to witness the backlash that occurred when our nation elected–twice–the first black American President Barack Obama.   Only equality-minded white people seem surprised.   I sure was.   I remember crying when Barack Obama was elected…

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DeForest Kelley would be 99 today if he were still alive.   What can I say about him that hasn’t already been said by me or somebody else?   I guess I’ll simply reprint something I wrote three years ago, since it will be new to people who have joined me since then…   5…

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I’m happy to announce that my four-volume series Kelley-Phone Tag:The Rest of the Story is nearing completion. The book covers are also nearing completion. As soon as I have those (Lisa Twining Taylor is creating them for me), I’ll roll them out to show them to you. This has truly been a herculean labor of…

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If you love fairies, dragons, gnomes, li’l critters and other whimsical and fantastical creatures, and you live in the Seattle/Tacoma/Olympia/Puyallup region, be sure to visit The Fairy Store in Lakewood just off Interstate 5 on 84th Street.   If you live farther afield, go online to visit their website (link below).     The Fairy…

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            It’s almost Christmas and I feel a bit schizophrenic right now.   On the one hand, I’m feeling bereft, wounded, on edge, and angry:   So many people I’ve known and loved (or their loved ones, including children) have passed away recently that I’m still mourning their loss. The…

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