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I've been blogging since 2010, with different blogs for different topics. With this one, I'm bringing everything together, gradually moving posts here from older blogs, which is why you see long past publication dates on some of them.

If you click on the ALL POSTS button at the top of this page, you'll see, in chronological order, all the posts on this site.

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Marie McKinsey

Apr 18, 2014
3 min

Lavender Blues

As Tom Robbins, another of my favorite authors, says in his novel, JITTERBUG PERFUME, "with immediacy and intensity, smell activates the me

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Marie McKinsey

Apr 14, 2014
1 min

A Gaelic Blessing

This fun little song was part of my community choir's 30th Anniversary concert. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed sing

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Marie McKinsey

Apr 13, 2014
3 min

Rhododendron Hell

"Roger didn't need to read it; he knew well enough the thoughts that were going through the other's mind. The same thoughts he'd wrestled...

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Garlic - a Food, a Medicine, an Aphrodisiac?!

Marie McKinsey

Apr 11, 2014
3 min

Garlic - a Food, a Medicine, an Aphrodisiac?!

Claire might not have known how to grow garlic before Mrs. FitzGibbons handed her that basket of cloves and a digging stick, but she was und

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Marie McKinsey

Apr 5, 2014
3 min

Stinging Nettles

If you've ever encountered a stinging nettle, you have no trouble understanding how being flogged with a bunch of them would be an effective

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The Little Blue Flower At The Start Of It All

Marie McKinsey

Apr 1, 2014
2 min

The Little Blue Flower At The Start Of It All

If it is possible for plants to travel through time, forget-me-nots would be well suited for the journey.

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