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Category: Life and Family

That guy. I just don’t deserve him…

On October 10, 2025 By Em D In Life and Family, Where Bloggers Live

This is a highly secret post. If word gets out, I will NEVER (ever, ever) hear the end of it. Pinky swear before you begin reading that this stays between us! We good? (Okay, here’s …

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Could I, or couldn’t I?

On September 12, 2025 By Em D In Life and Family, Where Bloggers Live

If we haven’t chatted in a while, things in my “perfect” world are NOT… (…perfect, that is). The kitchen project, while promising, is still in mid-phase hiatus (preview below). So, we’ve moved on to bathroom …

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Summer priorities: And this “ain’t” that

On July 11, 2025 By Em D In Where Bloggers Live

Ahhhh. The Fourth of July has come and gone. That means the coast is clear and nothing ahead but the rest of summer (keeping in mind that summer only technically began at the end of …

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This one’s for my Pop

On June 13, 2025 By Em D In Life and Family

Too many moons ago, after graduating college I was hired as a technical writer for a research and development firm.  My dad was thought it was so cool that I was “a writer,” but I …

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Table for two…

On February 14, 2025 By Em D In Life and Family, Where Bloggers Live

Dress. Heels. Candlelit table in the corner of a restaurant. White tablecloth. Bottle of wine. Handsome husband of 39 years seated across the table. Pass. (All but the handsome husband. He’s a keeper.) Pretty sure …

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dusting is fun

New year, new me! Resolutions for 2025

On January 10, 2025 By Em D In Life and Family, Where Bloggers Live

It’s a new day! I’ve hit the ground running and am leaning hard into the new year! That’s why I’m particularly excited to participate in this month’s Where Bloggers Live topic: “My New Year’s Resolutions.” …

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My own little nightmare…

On November 8, 2024 By Em D In Interior Projects, Other, Paint, Where Bloggers Live, Window Treatments

Guess what! This is post three in the “coolest thing I ever made” series. You’re wondering why I am compelled to torment you with preludes, am I right? Did you end up making a Crystal …

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Let me tell you ’bout a place…

On October 18, 2024 By Em D In Interior Projects, Life and Family, Other, Paint, Window Treatments

…somewhere up-a New York way…“ (In this case, the “somewhere” referenced in the post’s title is actually a little to the west of Buffalo, New York… just across the border and about a 20-minute drive …

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The green police are on their way

On September 13, 2024 By Em D In Where Bloggers Live

There has been a murder in my hallway. Well, maybe not a murder; something more akin to manslaughter. No, that’s not right, either. More like plantslaughter. Actually, INVOLUNTARY plantslaughter. Because this is an autobiographical crime …

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Never put off ’til tomorrow…

On August 9, 2024 By Em D In Where Bloggers Live

…what you can do today. Whose dumb idea was that proverb? I have thoughts for alternate endings: “Never put off until tomorrow… …what isn’t due until next week, month, etc.” …what you can mull about …

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