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Tag: death

Where to Next?

Where do you want to go next? Since you won't be around for it, why should you care? Well, someone is going to have to dispose of your earthly remains, whether you plan for it or not. So it seems only right that you should let them know how you expect them to deal with … Continue reading Where to Next?

Posted on November 21, 2025 by laurisburnsPosted in Life TodayTagged afterlife, burials, cemeteries, death, funerals, the end. Leave a comment

Who Is She?

Writer, reader, traveler, political junkie, foodie, photographer wannabe, multi-topic ranter and raver, social animal, secret introvert, believer in the power and passion of human beings to create a better worldWoman with book

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Writer Friends

Jess Federle

Sara A Fajardo

Kathi Huber

Rose Mary Boehm

Dina Towbin

Alison Light

Krystal Mercer McLellan

Judy Griffith Gill

Writers’ Retreat at Ricardo Palma House

Jess – La Colorada

Literary Quotes

“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Random Quotes

“I ask no favor for my sex; all I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Get off of my shoulders. The foundation has been laid. Now it’s time for you to build on it. Now, it’s your turn. Get to work.” Amelia Boynton Robinson,          Civil Rights Activist, 1911 – 2015

More of My World

Photography-Speechless in Peru

Travel & Food

About Writing

  • If it sounds like writing, rewrite it.
  • Write.
  • Using adverbs is a mortal sin.
  • Never write the word 'suddenly.'
  • A writer is one who writes

<br>North Carolina Authors

  • Brown Women Have Everything by Sayantani Dasgupta
  • Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
  • A Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash
  • Where Trouble Sleeps by Clyde Edgerton
  • Raney by Clyde Edgerton
  • Nermina's Chance by Dina Greenberg

Kids' Books I'm Reading

  • Air by Monica Roe
  • Wish by Barbara O'Connor
  • Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
  • Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
  • Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson
  • Beverly, Right Here, by Kate DiCamillo
  • Louisiana's Way Home, by Kate DiCamillo

Videos I've Watched Recently<br>

  • Reversing Roe
  • Queen of Katwe
  • A Most Beautiful Thing
  • Uncle Frank
  • Hillbilly Elegy
  • The Queen's Gambit
  • La Bamba
  • 13th
  • The Half of It
  • Fargo
  • Schitt's Creek - Series
  • Orange is the New Black - Series

That’s My Boy!

A chip off of which block? I love that when I tell my son that I’m going to Arequipa, he doesn’t ask where is it or why but says “Wow! It looks like a great place. And they have incredible food. I just googled it.”

Where Do They Hear This?

Dad0MmRUwAAOmGC

Phones are not the problem. pic.twitter.com/PueOw9YVgO

— Oppositionista (@BlueWaveYes) April 11, 2018

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