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Top 50 in My Fifties
I don’t want a bucket list in the classic form. That type of list is too nebulous. It implies “I want to do these things before I die.” But life has no clear ending. So, I sat down and wrote fifty things I wanted to do during the decade of my own 50’s. Though I…
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I Have Really Lived
As I was contemplating what I wanted to accomplish, do or become during the decade of my 50’s, I took a peek at what other people have posted. I searched “Bucket List” and found several personal lists. Thought maybe some of their ideas would be of interest for me as well. Just for fun, I…
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Planner of Events, Parties and Peculiar Festivities
Party Planner I love to plan and organize. I am list maker. I learned the Franklin Covery method of time management in the early ’80s and still follow the tenets.
Dana Marie Leonard Palmer
Why I Started My Personal Blog
When I first thought about writing “Hello World, It’s Me” it was December 1974. . I was ten years old and knew it would be a best selling novel because my own life was going to be filled with adventure, romance and the stuff that makes one great. My sister Melissa bought me a journal as a Christmas gift that year, the cover of which is the picture above. I jumped right in to chronicle my life. This is what you will find on page four.
My Favorite Things:
I like…the color orange
the fruit plum
my dog Shasta
cute earrings
camping with the family
my best friend Kathy
my family
the church
my many friends
to be liked by boys
to go swimming
Not much has changed in the past 40 years.
How could I have ever known back in ’74 that my book would take the form of a blog instead. Now that I will be turning 50 in 2014, I figured it was time to start in earnest. And as far as it being a best seller, I have concluded that just because no one might not ever read it, that should not be a reason to not write it.
Thank you Melissa for a gift that has kept on giving!
Dana Marie Leonard Palmer
Blogger & Writer