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Talking cat and the Rolling Stones
By DANA LIPSEY COLUMNIST
Thu,01/31/19-10:47AM , 3,312 Reads
I was in bed the other night when my cat strolled into my room. He jumped onto the foot of my mattress, sat down, licked the back of his paw and then said in a voice much like Jerry Seinfeld’s after inhaling a helium balloon, “So, what do you want out of life?”

I was stunned.
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From the streets of New Orleans
By DANA LIPSEY COLUMNIST
Thu,01/17/19-9:41AM , 4,600 Reads
My husband and I spent a few days last week in New Orleans.

It was mostly for business, but also to relax in a setting that didn’t require us looking at each other and wondering whose turn it was to take out the trash. One afternoon, while my husband was working, I spent a few hours by myself roaming through the French Quarter.
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Not another resolution
By DANA LIPSEY COLUMNIST
Thu,01/03/19-1:24PM , 4,894 Reads
A few years ago I made a New Year’s resolution, to never make another New Years resolution.

It has worked out well for me so far, and I’m proud to say I haven’t broken it even once.

I’m not good with goals. Goals only remind me of how wrong everything I have planned will inevitably go.
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Christmas memories are deep in the heart
By DANA LIPSEY COLUMNIST
Thu,12/20/18-11:08AM , 3,183 Reads
When I was a kid, every year, about a week before Christmas my maternal “Granddaddy” would go to the bank and bring back my brother and me each a new, crisp fifty-dollar bill.

He would sit in his cloth rocker that was upholstered with gold bath towels - my grandmother had tacked on to keep the real fabric safe - and summon us over.
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