Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40280)
Laguna Woods, California
Joined myLot 9 years ago
I love the beach, horses, yoga, & grandkids. I write the retirement blog, baby-boomer-retirement.com, and have an Etsy store: DeborahDianGifts.etsy.com.
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40280)
• Laguna Woods, California
12 May
Much to the amazement of people living in Southern California, away from the big cities like Los Angeles, millions of us were able to see spectacular views of the Aurora Borealis.
A man posted this photo on Facebook, saying that...
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40280)
• Laguna Woods, California
13 Apr
Many of you may have noticed that I have not been on MyLot for quite a while. The reason was because my husband was very sick and has now died. I simply did not have the time for MyLot. Since his death, I have been buried with...
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40280)
• Laguna Woods, California
29 Jul 23
The past year has been a tough one for me, so most of you have not seen much of me on MyLot. I finally felt ready to write a post about everything that has been going on, so you knew what has been happening with me, and why I...
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40280)
• Laguna Woods, California
19 Sep 22
About 15 years ago, I began writing online and the first site where I wrote was eHow. As I wrote articles there, I noticed another writer on the site who would sometimes mention the same locations in her articles as I mentioned...
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40280)
• Laguna Woods, California
15 May 22
As many of my friends around the world know, I live in Laguna Woods, California and those of you who read the national and international news are about to hear about a mass shooting at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods,...
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40280)
• Laguna Woods, California
10 Apr 22
In the last month, my life has been wracked by the deaths of several family members and close friends.
We have attended the funerals of my husband's sister, my mother and father, some other relatives, and the husband of one of my...
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40280)
• Laguna Woods, California
15 Nov 21
The past week has been difficult. As I mentioned in my last post, my husband and I celebrated our 50th Wedding Anniversary in mid-October, and he did not feel well at the time. After our anniversary, his stomach problems became...
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40280)
• Laguna Woods, California
15 Oct 21
My husband and I will be celebrating our 50th Wedding Anniversary this weekend and next week!
We were married in 1971 in a park in Berkeley, California. I was a 70's flower child, and chose to wear a purple dress and flowers in...
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40280)
• Laguna Woods, California
9 Oct 21
Everything is 99% back to normal here in sunny Southern California. Oh, you are supposed to show a vaccination card or negative test results in order to go into a bar, gym, restaurant, or amusement park, but people have fully...
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40280)
• Laguna Woods, California
26 Sep 21
I'm sure everyone has a Covid story. For us, we have known several people who died from Covid, and several who became seriously ill. As a result, we were careful, but we also wanted to see at least some of our family. That is...
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40280)
• Laguna Woods, California
6 May 21
Although the official death toll from Covid in the United States, as I write this, is about 580,000, experts believe that the actual death toll is probably closer to 900,000. This is based on a study of deaths which had not...
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40280)
• Laguna Woods, California
14 Feb 21
Regardless of what you felt about the outcome of the insurrection of the U.S. Capitol and the resulting impeachment trial in the Senate, our country is now moving on.
Of course, there will be future hearings, and...
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40280)
• Laguna Woods, California
6 Jan 21
I want to apologize to the world.
I am horrified and embarrassed for our country. Right now, I am watching Trump supporters break into the U.S. Capital building. They have broken down doors, broken out windows, and they are...
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40280)
• Laguna Woods, California
23 Nov 20
If you watch the television show "60 Minutes," you may have seen the stories they have done a few times on the 90+ Study at the University of California in Irvine.
The research they are doing is taking place in our retirement...
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40280)
• Laguna Woods, California
26 Jul 20
Like most people, I have only rarely been involved in a political campaign. Usually it has only happened locally, when I had a friend running for school board or something like that.
Until recently, the only time I was...
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40280)
• Laguna Woods, California
5 Mar 20
Last night, one of our daughters called us to let us know that she, her husband, and their son are all under house quarantine because of the coronavirus! We were shocked, although she assured us they are all OK.
Apparently, the...
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40280)
• Laguna Woods, California
15 Feb 20
A few days ago, my sister was awakened at 4:00 in the morning with her smoke alarms going off. The bedroom where she and her husband sleep is in the one-story wing on the right side of the house. (See the picture, above). My...
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40280)
• Laguna Woods, California
31 Dec 19
Dear Friends!
I just wanted to let everyone know that I am thinking of all of you and hope you have a safe New Year's Eve and a wonderful 2020.
Today, I walked at Laguna Beach with a friend, watched a seal frolic in the waves,...
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40280)
• Laguna Woods, California
7 Nov 19
Can it really be less than 50 days until Christmas and the other winter holidays? This time of year is always so busy!
I have bought my Christmas cards and am working on a holiday letter to include. I always like to update my...
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Deborah-Diane
@DeborahDiane (40280)
• Laguna Woods, California
18 Oct 19
With the election season heating up in the United States, Mark Zuckerberg was asked if his company would fact check ads before allowing them to be posted. He said he would NOT do that, because of Freedom of Speech. It does not...
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