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Bahamas Vacation 2024 – Part THREE…
The Island – Green Turtle Cay is only about one mile wide at its widest point and about three miles long. It sets directly on the Atlantic Ocean so in the morning we look directly eastward. At night, we can see so many stars, and sometimes it is so clear that we can see star…
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I Discovered The Moon…
Have you ever had that experience of extreme excitement in your youth when you discover something new for the first time. You know What I mean, that goose bumps moment. This recalled memory is of the day when I had one of those moments. It is morning recess at my new school. I remember standing…
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Bahamas Vacation 2024 – Part TWO…
The Crossing – Our island trip consists of several days of traveling adventures before we can relax in the islands, those being our travel day to South Florida and crossing day to the Bahamas which is day one of our vacation. And when vacation is over, we then make the journey back from the Bahamas…
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Bahamas Vacation 2024 – Part ONE…
Travel Day – Every summer our family heads south for vacation in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and then over to the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas. Our daughter’s Grandparents have a beach house on Green Turtle Cay, Abaco. My wife and I designed the house in 2007 for them, and we were married on the island…
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Writers Block…
I have not been able to publish any new writings for several weeks now. My apologies. Yes, “writers block” really does happen, and I have been experiencing this impact recently while trying to write the vignettes about my vacation during the summer of 2024. This writing effort became challenging after I returned from this year’s…
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Why I Write…
When I started my personal story blog website, my writing was a therapeutic exercise to reconcile with everything going on in my world at that time. After surviving a Widow Maker Heart Attack that for most people is fatal, and as part of my overall recovery, I sought out therapeutic support to help me resolve…
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Lunch At The Bunny’s Place…
Well, my birthday party this year was awesome. And after the party I now have more new friends and a new best friend. I think that this is the time in my life when I discovered what a best friend is and what an inseparable bond feels like. In life, you only get so many…
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A New Friend…
We are all moved in now. From what I remember, my clothing selection was small and not well suited for the desert heat. I did have some shorts and T-shirts, and a bathing suit which was basically an old pair of shorts. It was my first full day in this new place. My mom was…
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Going West…
For some reason we quickly moved out of our house in the later part of the summer in 1964. This was just before my 9th birthday. And I do not know why. Our moving journey was by car, and I think it was in a station wagon because of its size. I do not remember…
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My Young Body…
From what I remember, my friend’s older brother, who was only a few years older than me I think, took an interest in me, and I felt his interest was a special one. One day he asked me to go to the woods with him. He had always been nice to me and his younger…