Ms.Chelle

@Chellezhere (6214)

United States

Joined myLot 9 years ago

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Guide Dog To the Rescue

Ms.Chelle @Chellezhere (6214) • United States 6 Jul

It was the sweetest thing yesterday morning. Henry was on the floor beside my bed, and I guess tried to get up on it, but got his claw caught in the comforter. That hurt, and he screamed—boy, did he scream. Just as I sat up...

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Living the Dream?

Ms.Chelle @Chellezhere (6214) • United States 4 Jul

I'm almost 60. Married from 1993-2006, aside from about six years of living with a boyfriend, I have been single since. I don't dislike that, but sometimes I find myself dreaming like I did during my teen years. I saw myself in...

family

home

dinner

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For Me, It Was Compassion

Ms.Chelle @Chellezhere (6214) • United States 4 Jul

Today, I felt compassion most strongly—especially for caregivers. I was one during the early lockdown days of COVID. I was doing so as a legally blind woman with dead knees. I HAD NO RESPITE! And, I was taking care of my mother...

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Talking Music

Ms.Chelle @Chellezhere (6214) • United States 3 Jul

Some of you may be too young to know this. Between 1966-1970, four versions of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine." 1. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (1966) 2. Gladys Knight & The Pips (1967) 3. Marvin Gaye (1968) 4. Creedence...

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6 people

You Go, Girls!

Ms.Chelle @Chellezhere (6214) • United States 2 Jul

Mom was a gym teacher in my home state of Pennsylvania. Dad's Aunt Grace (1920–1934) was an athlete who hid her pains to play basketball. Her appendix burst. She was only fourteen. My great-grandparents found Aspirin hidden in her...

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6 people

July 1 Update

Ms.Chelle @Chellezhere (6214) • United States 1 Jul

Hoping to sleep well tonight. It was July 1, so I got paid and so did my creditors. Then, I ordered some groceries, went for a walk, got some quarters, came home, and did seven loads of laundry. That took me the better part of...

busy

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Mom's A Little Nuts Here

Ms.Chelle @Chellezhere (6214) • United States 30 Jun

Have you ever danced in front of your pets? Today, I was dancing around to some Do-wop and they both looked at me like I was nuts. And I was playing a mean air guitar, too! Apparently, dancing with pets—especially dogs—is a thing...

dog

cat

sedaka

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The Little Stinker

Ms.Chelle @Chellezhere (6214) • United States 30 Jun

This morning’s paratransit ride did not go quite as planned. For reasons unknown to those of us who know logistics are not always logical, I was the first pickup.From there, the bus zigzagged about 30 miles, stopping to pick up...

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15 people

Thoughts Today

Ms.Chelle @Chellezhere (6214) • United States 28 Jun

It’s 4:30 PM and this complex is eerily, yet pleasingly quiet today. That can happen when you live in a place for the disabled of any age or seniors 62+, but sometimes it feels like you hear everything. I can’t remember when I...

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Three things I am grateful for this week...

Ms.Chelle @Chellezhere (6214) • United States 27 Jun

Hmmm? Do they even have to be "things"? I don't think so, and sometimes "three" just isn't enough. I am grateful for waking every day to see my cat and guide dog are in the (king-size) bed beside me. I am grateful to have...

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It’s 4 O’Clock Somewhere: My Accidental Tribute to Gram

Ms.Chelle @Chellezhere (6214) • United States 27 Jun

Have you ever heard the idiom, “Sometimes, when I open my mouth, my mother comes out”? Lately, I seem to be invoking my grandmother instead. Gram was never one to watch much TV, especially before the 6:00 PM news. We actually...

ice

water

scotch

and occasionally a manhattan

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7 people

Well, this was odd.

Ms.Chelle @Chellezhere (6214) • United States 26 Jun

After walking my dog, we came back inside and while in the Community Room, I checked the Giving Table. That’s right next to where the Clique spies on others in the guise of doing jigsaw puzzles. To my surprise, I noticed a...

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9 people

Wanna See A Cute Baby?

Ms.Chelle @Chellezhere (6214) • United States 21 Jun

These people here are absurd. Earlier yesterday, as I walked outside with my dog, a neighbor, sitting on her patio, alerted me that there was a fawn curled up behind the bushes beside her. I walked over and could just make out...

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What’s in a name?

Ms.Chelle @Chellezhere (6214) • United States 18 Jun

it’s funny sometimes the things that you think about when you first wake up. My maternal grandmother was Thelma. My paternal grandmother was Flossie. Flossie is a diminutive of Florence— which was not my grandmother‘s name it...

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What is your earliest memory?

Ms.Chelle @Chellezhere (6214) • United States 15 Jun

If you're not specific, at my age, I am apt to tell you that my earliest memory seems to be whatever happened a minute ago. But, if you must know my actual ealiest memory, I'd have to say it involved my Dad. He took me to a hole a...

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7 people

Roadblocks Online

Ms.Chelle @Chellezhere (6214) • United States 7 Jun

Decided to retry Vocational Rehabilitation to see if I can return to work part-time, without it affecting my disability benefits. Because I am almost 60, I don't want to share the dates of my education. But FlexJobs won't allow...

quick apply

job board

equal opportunity

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6 people

Okay. This Is Weird

Ms.Chelle @Chellezhere (6214) • United States 4 Jun

I have a neighbor who lives on the other side of the complex. The dumpster is on mine. Every day, multiple times a day, she walks past my place enroute to the the dumpster, but never through the hallway (which is actually the most...

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9 people

'Merica

Ms.Chelle @Chellezhere (6214) • United States 2 Jun

Today, I was going to write a poem about our Dark Horse president, James Knox Polk, and ended up writing this instead. It's a bit of a rough draft still, but what do you think of 'Merica? Can you name all the songs...

american identity

colonialism

environmental critique

social hypocrisy

indigenous voices

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Weird Waking Moments

Ms.Chelle @Chellezhere (6214) • United States 31 May

What is the weirdest thing you have ever heard yourself say or think as you were waking up sometime in the night or in the morning? For me today it was.”didactyl kaleidoscope.” Could that be a metaphor for “limited interaction...

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7 people

Talking of Michelangelo

Ms.Chelle @Chellezhere (6214) • United States 29 May

When Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles first came out, I was 16 and thought I was too old for it. A few years later, I met my fiancé—he was two years older than me and absolutely loved the Ninja Turtles! I remember thinking, “Maybe...

teenage mutant ninja turtles

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6 people