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Deanie

I am a widow, mother, grandmother, sister, cousin, retired person, volunteer, lost an adult son in a motorcycle accident. I grew up in a small town in central Washington State, married right out of high school. Divorced after more than ten years, went back to business college. Worked at many different jobs, helped run a lumber store, partner in a contracting firm, house painter, decorator, a stenographer in the state senate, as a file clerk for an insurance company, order taker for a sign company, collector for the power company, insurance desk for a mortgage company, real estate agent, receptionist for an import company, silk screener for a game maker, customer sales representative and product consultant for an outdoor clothing company, customer sales representative for two well known fishing rod manufacturers, receptionist for a real estate office, owned and operated my own health food store for 6 years and now volunteer at the local food co-op. Usually bored with any job after 3 years.

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How did you get to where you are now?

Down a many forked path!

How do you see yourself differently now than you did 10 years ago?

I didn't think I would be so bored with retirement. I pictured my DH and I doing lots of traveling.  Couldn't imagine that he would be afflicted with Alzheimer's. 

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

Traveling, Volunteering and living happily near my daughter and her family.

a postcard to my younger self

You can do it girl!  Go for it!

my role models

My Mom who stood by my Dad through many years of alcoholism and finally found the courage to leave him and take care of herself. Gloria Steinem, Molly Ivins, Melinda Gates and Betty Ford

my posts

U.S. budget priorities unclear

All of our budgets, including state and national budgets, are moral documents. This is not a financial crisis — it is most certainly a moral crisis.read more »

Japan…Before & After

These satellite photos tell it all!

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/13/world/asia/satellite-photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html

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Kids Have a Way With Words

 What Is Butt Dust??

What, you ask, is ‘Butt dust’? Read on and you’ll discover the joy in it! These have to be original and genuine. No adult is this creative!!

JACK…

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Love Languages

Sorry it didn’t work!

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Laughs Not In The Dictionary

The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again  invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding,  subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new  definition. 

Here are the winners: 
 
1. Cashtration (n.): The…

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