My Kindle books are free this weekend [on the 25th and 26th]
Here are the links to those:
You Can Totally Screw Up As A Mom And Still Raise Great Kids
If The 10 Commandments Actually Became Our Law
And my new course Stop Stressing About Stress is free for the first 25 people
who read this and sign up – or the weekend ends….
If you are number 26 on you can still get it – with a discount.
It will be $5 until the end of the weekend.
ENJOY
My friend and neighbor threw a 60th birthday bash for her hubby and the neighborhood was invited – plus many of their friends and family.
Karaoke From Hell played for 6 [or more hours] while we sang, danced, drank, ate and had fun – way late into the evening…
And in case you are wondering: No – we never fall in the river – though we would have gone swimming if the water were not so cold.
The band set up on one deck and the food, liquids, chairs and tables were set up across what we call our lagoon or backyard and our partying started even before band had set up!!.
[The moorage was very strangely quiet on Sunday.]
We have frequent potlucks and parties in the neighborhood but this bash outdid all of those and will go down in the annals of Bridgeton.
Enjoy the movie: see my neighbors, friends and moorage and rock to the music!
PS – my house is seen at about 1:14
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33 years ago, at 3:55AM in Boston Massachusetts, I gave birth to a healthy baby boy!
About 20 years ago, when he was a new teenager, we went to see City Slickers.
There is a scene where Billy Crystal is awoken at 5:16AM by his mother who reminisces about his birth.
"Oh no" said my son, "I can see it now" 
Well – I never did start the reminiscing calls because for one thing – 3:55AM and I have been strangers in those 33 years. And I never could find the clip on YouTube.
Then last year my son gave me a good suggestion and I got the video from the library and filmed it on my TV.
So kid – pardon the lines running through the video clip – but here it is:
Mommy's birthday call:
Happy Birthday Honey!
Thoughts on birthdays?
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NYC girl scouts circa early 1950's – some of whom I am still in contact with
I recently had a birthday…
Starting over the weekend, many friends on Facebook wished me a happy birthday.
[FYI – Facebook posts the date of your birth if you want it to show. Twitter and other sites do not.]
Some of those on Facebook I have met in real life [or IRL as we say] – but most I have never met – or rather – I should say have not yet met. I am sure I will meet many in the future as we have a lot in common.
Some of my non-social media friends wonder why I call my online friends – friends! Well to me they are friends.
They were there for me in my depression when my pets died and in my joy when I announced that my son was getting married.
They are ardent supporters of my writing and my thoughts about politics and life – and they sometimes enjoy my videos and photographs [and even my knitting projects 
]
So – what is a friend?
I have friends I see every day, I have friends from years ago that I stay in contact with via phone and visits, and some with whom I am in contact only via email or online. And of course, my online-only friends.
Is there a difference in these friends? Yes. For those from the far ago pasts, and even my not-so-far-ago pasts – we may have different points of view and events on life now – but we once shared a history and that can't be discarded.
Those histories forge a bond of friendship. And the social media friends? We are creating our own history and forging a different kind of friendship…
But to me – they are all friends!
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