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Caleigh O'Shea☘

@CaleighOShea

Pen name of Debbie Pierce, fiction writer and web design entrepreneur. Ole Miss alum. Notre Dame parent. Life's too short not to be Irish!

 Illinois
blog.caleighoshea.com
Joined July 2012
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Expecting Elegance domermom.com/2023/05/10/expe…

Expecting Elegance

Whoever understands life loves flowers and their innocent caresses. ~Auguste Rodin, French sculptor Pregnant with promise Fragrant flower fully formed Sublime scenery

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Walking with Monkey in Spring domermom.com/2023/05/01/walk…

Walking with Monkey in Spring

A fine spring is good for everybody. ~Russian proverb I Monkey here. Back-to-back posts from me within a week’s time? Yes, indeed. Count yourselves lucky, people, that Mama is busy with stuff…

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Monkey’s New Job domermom.com/2023/04/24/monk…

Monkey’s New Job

Many people quit looking for work when they find a job. ~Author unknown I Monkey here. For a long time (I’m two, so that’s a long time!), I’ve been trying to figure out what my jo…

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Spring 2023 domermom.com/2023/04/03/spri…

Spring 2023

This is the sensory season. Trees are in leaf… It is a green world… Walk through an orchard and you can smell as well as feel the strength of grass underfoot, new grass reaching tall to…

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Singing with Abandon domermom.com/2023/03/27/sing…

Singing with Abandon

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese proverb I Looked out My window And saw these two Curious finches Perched in a dogwood tree, Glancing into the…

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Welcome, Spring 2023 domermom.com/2023/03/20/welc…

Welcome, Spring 2023

In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four-and-twenty hours. ~Mark Twain, American writer, humorist, and entrepreneur

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Lesson Learned domermom.com/2023/03/13/less…

Lesson Learned

A house was not a home without animals. ~Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018 My neighbor got a flock of ducks; Six, to be exact. Two were white and four, brown. I confess, I was gobsmacked. Every day as…

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Too Much to Ask? domermom.com/2023/03/06/too-…

Too Much to Ask?

No one is useless in this world… who lightens the burden of it for any one else. ~Charles Dickens, English writer and social critic, in Our Mutual Friend, 1865 I just want to be a daughter. I…

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Gotcha Day #2 domermom.com/2023/02/20/gotc…

Gotcha Day #2

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~Author unknown You’ve been here for two years now, My mischievous little pup. And surely in all those weeks and m…

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Some Memories Linger domermom.com/2023/02/15/some…

Some Memories Linger

When Memory rings her bell, let all the thoughts run in. ~Emily Dickinson, American poet Spring semester for symphonic band has started, and we’re practicing for two concerts, one in March an…

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Problem Solved, I Hope domermom.com/2023/02/07/prob…

Problem Solved, I Hope

Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to. ~Author unknown, 1960s Three bales of straw later (and fingers crossed this works!):

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Consequences? Maybe domermom.com/2023/01/29/cons…

Consequences? Maybe

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences… ~Norman Cousins, American journalist, author, and professor I Monkey here. You’re never going to believe what Mama’s been up t…

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Not All Change is Good domermom.com/2023/01/22/not-…

Not All Change is Good

When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese proverb Perhaps change is the only constant in our world, but at the risk of appearing old, I’ve go…

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Facing Fear domermom.com/2023/01/15/faci…

Facing Fear

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German proverb I Monkey here. I ask you, Have you ever seen anything more terrifying than this:

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Tiny Tree Update, 2023 domermom.com/2023/01/08/tiny…

Tiny Tree Update, 2023

Of the living gymnosperms the conifers — pine, cedar, spruce, fir and redwood trees — are the most successful biologically. The needle-like leaves of these evergreens are well adapted to withstand …

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Waiting for What’s Next domermom.com/2023/01/02/wait…

Waiting for What’s Next

All say, “How hard it is that we have to die” — a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. ~Mark Twain, American writer The smell assaults you as you wa…

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Merry Christmas 2022 domermom.com/2022/12/21/merr…

Merry Christmas 2022

This Christmas may you have… “Walls for the wind And a roof for the rain, And drinks bedside the fire, Laughter to cheer you, And those you love near you, And all that your heart may desire.” ~ Iri…

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Decisions, Decisions domermom.com/2022/12/16/deci…

Decisions, Decisions

Sometimes you can head off a decision you’ll regret by looking into your heart and finding regret already there. ~Robert Brault, American author After spending two full years sitting on the f…

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This ‘N That from Monkey domermom.com/2022/12/12/this…

This ‘N That from Monkey

I Monkey here. Mama is spinning around like some kind of cyclone, so I decided to snatch her laptop and catch you all up on what’s going on. (It’s a cinch she won’t because she…

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Where Did Fall Go? domermom.com/2022/12/03/wher…

Where Did Fall Go?

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that…

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