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Fancy Coffee Friday: Cake, a Dead Chicken and the Plague

Posted on January 2, 2015 by The Amusing Muse

Picture it, January 2nd, 2015, in southern Wisconsin where it is brown, cold and lacking snow.  I’m perched at my home office desk in my workout gear after just sending off a first draft for another article at N Magazine, … Continue reading →

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Fancy Coffee Friday: Inside my head

Posted on March 21, 2014 by The Amusing Muse

As I drove home this evening, Mr. Muse and I amicably chatting along the way, I glanced down at the thermometer and saw “53”.  Fifty-three glorious degrees.  The sun was still high in the sky and I knew that I … Continue reading →

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I have a Fear of Failure.

Posted on March 5, 2013 by The Amusing Muse

Damn. Double Damn. Damn.  Damn.  Damn. Now that I’ve gotten all my damnation out of the way (for now anyway)… I can focus on this fear.  In my quest to find that thing, or those things, about which I’m passionate, … Continue reading →

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Musings on… Find your passion.

Posted on March 4, 2013 by The Amusing Muse

No, I’m not talking soap operas.  I feel lost and “wrong” after DazyLady put the question to me about what is my passion.  I couldn’t think of one.  “Nothing”, was my response.  Readers, I never liked that response because even … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the Jungle!

Posted on March 22, 2012 by The Amusing Muse

I would like to thank WordPress for letting me know that I have set a new record for people subscribing to my blog on Wednesday!  Thank you, WordPress.  I think it’s wonderful that I have this new record to attempt … Continue reading →

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Part 3: My Life with Mice – Mice wear tap shoes…the Beginning.

Posted on March 2, 2012 by The Amusing Muse

Last time on My Life with Mice, I wrote about Tap Dancing Mice.  This is how it began… There I was, a younger Me, lying in bed, pondering life’s great mysteries and I heard it.  On the ceiling above my bed was … Continue reading →

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Me ‘n Daisy

Posted on September 27, 2011 by The Amusing Muse

My parents moved to “the country” when I was just a squirt.  I grew up on a stretch of road where our “next door neighbors” were a quarter mile away.  We had the Martins and the Wickers next door, neither of … Continue reading →

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