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When Doing It Yourself Is No Longer the Best Choice

When Doing It Yourself Is No Longer the Best Choice First published on Sixty and Me My husband has always

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Home Patty Grasher

Welcome. I’m Patty Grasher, a guidebook author, radio host, and local book event organizer in Southwest Washington. This site brings

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Recreating a 1908 Vancouver Cookbook, One Chapter at a Time

I seem to have zero energy but I have started a tiny new project. When I first came to Vancouver

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My Journey to Write a Cozy Mystery

This is probably going to be very boring to 99.9 percent of the world. Maybe I should make that 99.99999

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Free Jigsaw Puzzles Online for all Ages

Free Jigsaw Puzzles Online Playing free jigsaw puzzles online offers a wealth of benefits, making it a valuable pastime for

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Detours & Side Trips

So I am bit more spasmodic with my daily as usual but continuing on.   Since I always have a good

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Be Happy Now

Today’s Sunshine: Motivation Quotes: \”I am happy because I am grateful.\” Earl Nightingale Sunshine Thoughts A bit of rain, a

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Be Happy Now

Today’s Sunshine: Motivation Quotes: \”Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don\’t wait for something outside

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If you give a gift . . .

Today’s Sunshine: Motivation Quotes: \”When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is

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Friendliness produces Friendship

Today’s Sunshine: Motivation Quotes: \”Only friendliness produces friendship.\” Gilbert K Chesterton   Sunshine Thoughts I don\’t know what to write

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Let\’s hear it for adventures!

Today’s Sunshine: Motivation Quotes: \”An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.\” Gilbert K Chesterton   Sunshine Thoughts No real

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If it\’s worth doing . . .

Today’s Sunshine: Motivation Quotes: \”If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.\” Gilbert K Chesterton   Sunshine

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How long until you win?

Today’s Sunshine: Motivation Quotes: \”How you think when you lose determines how long it will be Until You Win.\” Gilbert

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The difference we make

Today’s Sunshine: Motivation Quotes: “What counts is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we

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Without expecting anything in return

Today’s Sunshine: Motivation Quotes: “There can be no greater gift than that of giving one\’s time and energy to helping

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We are powerful

Today’s Sunshine: Motivation Quotes: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are

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