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My Summer Bucket List

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my summer bucket list

Hip hooray for another summer (yay!). Because I’m a list-making sort of person, I decided a summer bucket list was in order. This isn’t likely a generic, appeal-to-everyone summer bucket list, but it’s what I hope to do. And maybe it will inspire you to come up with your own list.

Lists help me get things accomplished. I like that whole check mark thing.

So here ya go, my summer bucket list…

— Go to a drive-in. In Arkansas, there are only three remaining open drive-ins including the 112 Drive-In in Fayetteville. I’ve been planning to go since I moved here. This summer, I’m going, even though that will involve staying up past my bedtime.Continue Reading

Slow on Sunday Morning.

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A few simple pics for this slow Sunday morning, a recap of our weekend so far. I’ll admit it’s been extra long because I spent half of Friday thinking the day was Saturday. When you have two Saturdays, you end up with a three-day weekend.

Slow Sunday morning from my back porch.

Sunday morning coming down

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those first best childhood friends…

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These childhood friends...

One of the best things I’ve done in a long while was spend time with these childhood friends. I consider myself sooooo fortunate to have attended school from Headstart through twelfth grade with many of the same people. (Headstart was a program started in 1965 for low-income kids who needed a “head start” before first grade, and we were those kids…)

There’s nothing like childhood friends—the folks we knew before we knew ourselves. We can sit together and reminisce and laugh and cry, and although we are fifty-something now, when we’re together, we are first graders. Or twelve-years-old. Or seniors in high school. Our memories have only become more vivid with age, hindsight, and a dose of humor.

We know the same places and people, and there’s a specialness to that.Continue Reading

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