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Views from My Nineties
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Views from My Nineties: Love, Food, Life! Reflections of a ninety-year-old woman on her world.
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“Turn the volume up!!!”

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#TurnTheVolumeUp #NoKings #NoKingsProtest #NoKingsSantaCruz #Democrats #DemocracyInAction #DemocracyMatters #HardWork #Focus #Primaries #Yeson50 #Prop50 #California
November 6, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Just Checking In...

"Life is a crazy mix, perhaps you’ve noticed."

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#CheckingIn #Bronchitis #Brandy #LifeandDeath #EldestSon #FirstBornSon
November 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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"The March"
"Nothing I can add to what you’ve likely read and heard about the tens of thousands of us across the country. Just that I’m so glad I did it…."
www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/the-march/

#NoKings #NoKingsProtest #SantaCruz #NoKingsSantaCruz #NoKingsInAmerica #NoKingsDay #Indivisible
October 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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My I Love America Morning!

"This Saturday (October 19th) I’m going to join the No-Kings Protest here in Santa Cruz."

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#NoKings #NoKingsProtest #SantaCruz #SantaCruzCalifornia
October 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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The Trip That Settled Traveling Again?

" ... travel ain’t what it used to be.

"I loved it until this last trip."

Read on:
www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/the-trip-tha...

#Travel #Travelling #TravellingChallenge #OnlineCheckIn #LovetoTravel
October 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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"I can’t imagine there is even a handful of women of a certain age on this planet who, this morning, don’t feel diminished by the loss of their sister, Jane Goodall."
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#DrJaneGoodall #JaneGoodall #JaneGoodallInstitute #Gombe
October 2, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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A Happy Accident
Excerpt: "Bill broke the cup by accident … Fate tore it at a good time. .... In perfect harmony with the rest of my life…."
Full Post: www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/a-happy/

#Malibu #Limoges #LimogesPorcelain #TeaCup #Stoneware #HappyAccident #Chaotic #Kitchen #LettingGo #Fate
September 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Crazy to Sing!
"Each year there was a Spring Sing–the annual meeting of all the clubs focused on the competition of clubs singing."

Read on: www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/crazy-to-sing/

#SpringSing #Choir #ChoirCompetition #PerfectPitch #Soprano #GleeClub #ChurchChoir #YMCA
September 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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A Cinematographer to Keep an Eye on
We are over the moon exultant at the news of #cinematographer Christopher Ripley’s achievement in the #VeniceFilmFestival.
Chris is boon companion of our granddaughter, James Francis Whelan IV.
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September 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Comfort In Case You’ve Just Suffered A Big Disappointment, Too~
Department of Misery Loves Company … Mayhap …
~By Sylvia Thompson, A Cook Who’s Been Working in A Kitchen 82 Years…

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#MiseryLovesCompany #Pastitsio #LaborDay #Recipe #BestRecipe
September 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Checking In ~ End of Summer 2025

"Yesterday I wrote my children asking if they remembered where they were forty years ago on that day…. "
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#CheckingIn #EndofSummer #HappyAnniversary #VeniceInternationalFilmFestival #Torcello #RisottoRecipe #HappyLaborDay
August 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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My Nights with Harry Bosch
" .... I discovered there’d been a TV series based on Connelly’s 24 Harry Bosch novels .... Whoa. Was it still available to watch?"
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#MichaelConnelly #HarryBosch #TVSeries #DetectiveFiction #DetectiveSeries #BoschLegacy
August 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Have You Tasted Sublime Fresh Spinach Lately?

Read the full post to find out how and why:
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#Recipe #Spinach #FreshSpinach #SpinachRecipe
August 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Time to Wake Up!

“First you need spelt flour.”

“I can probably get that at Amazon.”

Beat. “You’re not going to buy spelt flour from Amazon! Sylvia!”

Full post: www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/2016-2/

#WakeUp #WakeUpAmerica #PurchasePower #PurchaseWithPurpose #BoycottAmazon #WeThePeople
August 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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July 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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The Sad Inevitable Jolt ~ When?

'Ma, you shouldn’t be driving at all anymore.'

Read On:
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July 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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"Lavender Lady"
"This began six or seven months ago when in a heap of Sylviania in a bathroom drawer a small round plastic compact with compressed lavender/periwinkle powder turned up."
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#LavenderEyes #NeverTooLate #NeverTooLatetoStart #BeYourself #LavenderLady
July 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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July 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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"My Stolen Hour"

"It’s my Abbey Thursday! Favorite hour in the week. Sylvia’s Free-Play Day. Hour."

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#BlissOut #StolenTime #FreePlayDays #SantaCruz #WingbackChair #CappuccinoTime #Cappuccino #CappuccinoArt
July 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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"Last we left The Old Girl she had something inside her bum that had to be reckoned with … something, uh, what my small children would call 'omnious.'
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#SurgicalProcedure #Biopsy #CTScan
July 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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"My Uppy Downy #Ninetieth #Birthday"
"I’ll tell you the truth. Being ninety-actually arriving at so august, so distant, so unlikely/impossible a number–on the one hand turned out not to be a biggie. On the other hand, it’s mind-boggling, marvelous....."
www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/on-turning-n...
June 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Day after tomorrow, I’ll enter my 91st year … whoopee!
90 years old.
Whoa.
Ma made it to 100.
I’m on my way. Maybe.
Anyway, I’m grateful for every minute!
And your company.
P.S. Our novel is almost finished!!!
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#OnwardandUpward #Birthday #NinetyYearsOld
June 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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"It seems to me every food tastes richer, is more pleasurable from an earthenware vessel. Being from the earth, it’s from whence the food itself originated, so there’s a significant, moving coalescence…" www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/the-pleasure...

#HandmadeCeramics #Pottery @nanwollman.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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"A Rewarding Way with Solitaire"
"....here am I to tell you how I discovered that a three-to-four-minute game of Solitaire can be valuable. Can launch each working day."
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#Solitaire #CardGames #KlondikeSolitaire #BlogSky #AuthorSky
June 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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"The #Apple of Big Dreams"
"Have you discovered the great new American apple, COSMIC CRISP?
".... #CosmicCrisp is expected to replace #RedDelicious & Gala as America’s go-to apples."

Read about the apple itself, it's history & genealogy:
www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/the-apple-of...
June 7, 2025 at 4:45 AM