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Is It Humanly Possible, Eight Years? Does it Mean I am Nuts?

 A personal blog:

A person who writes their journal online. Open to anyone who "clicks" on it. Their B(ook)-LOG has pages called, "Posts," about their personal day to day life stuff:

I am married.

I like tofu.

I am a spiritual person.

I dye my hair.

Some personal bloggers are more ripe and ready then others. Some give hilarious accounts about nitty gritty details. Others tell their story which create soft spots in our hearts to sprout tears. Some bloggers beat around the bush and we chase after them. And others have brocante bugs and a French Husband.

Today eight years ago I started this blog.

I have never missed a day, though I cannot say all posts are equal.

Thank you for reading, following, and sharing my blog. Thank you for encouraging me, for your emails, your gifts, your humor, for meeting me here, there, your place, my place and in between. 

Thank you.

Happy Birthday Tongue in Cheek! 

Comments

88 responses to “Is It Humanly Possible, Eight Years? Does it Mean I am Nuts?”

  1. sharon

    Wow eight years! Congratulations and happy happy birthday!

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  2. Linda R.

    Your blogs have been a source of joy, encouragement … a touch of France almost every day. Happiest of birthdays to you.

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  3. Marilyn

    Congratulations! Not missing a single day is a HUGE achievement. Thanks so much!

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  4. Star

    Congratulations, Corey! What an accomplishment.
    Wishing you many more years of daily blogging (because I’m selfish that way). 🙂

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  5. Ycha

    Over a year ago, I found you when I wasn’t looking. Blogs are not “my thing”, yet I kept on coming back to “Tongue and Cheeck”… is kind of addictive. I start my day in France and I have been at the brocante with you many times!
    CONGRATULATIONS!!and thank you.
    Ycha

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  6. Monica

    It is a contraction of web log. b-log . Bises, Monica

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  7. Irene

    Happy Blogoversary!
    You are one of a kind, and a perennial love! xoxo

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  8. sandy austin

    Happy Birthday Corey….Thank you for your talent and commitment. Looking forward to many more years! Open up a bottle of that wonderful French champagne and celebrate, you deserve it.

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  9. Janet with Eiffel

    Me too !

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  10. Diogenes

    Happy eight blog years!
    As a fellow brocante-aholic I have loved every minute of it. But the very best part of your blog was having the chance to meet you!

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  11. Marilyn in Chico, Ca

    Happy Birthday ! What an accomplishment! I look forward to reading your delightful blog and looking at your gorgeous photographs for the next 8 years.

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  12. Kathie B

    Parabéns! Of course some blog posts are “more equal” than others, because that’s how days are 😉 Muito obrigada, Corey.

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  13. Di

    So glad you are here, Corey! You brighten many a day.
    Di

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  14. Joan

    I visit you every day and appreciate what you share with us all both with words and images.

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  15. Jean(ne) in MN

    Congratulations on 8 years. Having found you by accident several years ago, I read every day to see what is new with you and your family. I’m so often touched by what you write. I wonder what my life would have been if my French husband and I had stayed near Aix in 1967! Please continue with joy!

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  16. Jean(ne) in MN

    Need to add your beautiful photographs, too.

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  17. Ed in Willows

    Without your blog, we might never have re-connected. I found it about 6 years ago, by accident, while doing a Google search for all things Willows. I haven’t missed a day since. Hope we can see each other next month.

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  18. Gina

    I’m so glad to be a part of it! I love your blog. Keep writing!

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  19. Peggy from PA

    Hello Corey , I’m one of those s lurker s who reads your blog daily..and I love it..but seldom comment. Congratulations on eight years..quite an accomplishment. It is a brave thing to put your life out there for all to read. Of course I love France and love your adventures. Thanks for telling a great story. Peggy from PA

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  20. LInda

    Congratulations! I so enjoy your wonderful blog!
    Linda from Alabama

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  21. Bev S.

    Happy Blogiversary! Thank you for sharing your life, your faith and your family with me.

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  22. Momof5

    And I try not to miss a day of reading it! Happy 8 years!0

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  23. Vickie

    so wonderful – YOU and your blog! thank you for your loyal posting Coreygirl. we love ya!

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  24. stella

    I am married. I live in Canada most of the time. I like the brocante and LOVE Tongue in Cheek. Keep em’ coming!
    Grazie!

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  25. Susan young

    Félicitations Corey!
    Your wonderful blog is the first thing I always go to online every day.
    You are a fabulous writer and photographer, and your posts are always luminous, touching and beautiful. As a retired French teacher who has had a life long love affair with France, your blog feeds my soul. As one who used to take my students to France every year , but has not been back since I retired 6 years ago…..it’s the next best thing to being there.
    I am sure that many others will agree when I say that Tongue in Cheek brings joy to many.
    Bises, Sue

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  26. Jeannie

    Thank YOU!!! I have watched you travel back and forth between your home lands, cherished the stories of days past and present, wished that Annie lived next to me (along with you!), drooled over the keyboard to the extent I needed a towel. Through thick and thin, you have inspired me, made me pause and reflect, encouraged me to pray, to giggle. I coveted quite a few things in the shop and some came here. I have sighed, laughed out loud (sometimes with tears), and enjoyed the heck out of your adventures. Thank you Corey (and Annie, Sacha, Chelsea, Mr. Expresso, Yann, Mom and all in Willows, and your special friend). You have made my mornings rich with your written words. Thank you.

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  27. paula s in new mexico

    Hug

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  28. Shelley Noble

    The very best kind of nut. Thank you for expressing yourself in this new medium, Corey. Your enormous heart has made the web warm and full of love.

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  29. Shirley

    Thank you for being there. I hardly ever miss a day.
    Shirley
    Atlanta, GA
    USA

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  30. Judy

    Happy Blog Birthday to you! I love your “blog”, read it daily!

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  31. suzanna

    wow, 8 years ~ golly ~ Happy Birthday! WOW…..I’ve sure had a good time dropping
    from over here ~ pretending I live there ~ ha ha ha!!! *_~ wink wink ~ XO

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  32. Ellen Bulterman

    Beautiful! Thank you for sharing your wonderful self these the past years!!!

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  33. Tracy A.

    Happy, happy birthday!

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  34. RebeccaNYC

    Thank you for what you give us every day! I love this “web log” more than you could know…

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  35. monika

    I look forward to your posts every day… thank you so much for taking up this project, for sharing so much of yourself and your life; your words always make me think and feel and enrich my day.
    Happy Birthday Dear Tongue in Cheek!!! May you have many more!! 🙂

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  36. NancyO.

    Happy birthday, Tongue in Cheek!

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  37. Marsha @ Splenderosa

    HAPPY happy 8th Birthday to Tongue in Cheek, my new friend. How on Earth did it take me so long to find you, and once found to know we could be related. This is bliss! Big congrats for keeping to it. Onward & Upward!

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  38. Sharon

    Thanks Corey for sharing your life with all of us. I look forward to your blog everyday!

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  39. plus.google.com/105543717784368182769

    Here’s to 80 more! Happy Birthday Corey!

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  40. Laura

    Happy blogaversary!
    Thank you for each and every post. For writing even when you thought you couldn’t or shouldn’t. Thank you for your gorgeous photos and your huge, loving heart. For me, your posts bring the beauty and joy of living to life. Some posts are so tender they bring tears; sometimes of joy and sometimes in sadness…but always with beauty. Thank you so much for sharing your life experiences, your insight and your love. For I believe it is all of that love that allows you to take the stunning photo, to share precious words and for all of us to want to share the journey with you in whatever way we can.

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  41. Joan in Rochester

    Thank you Corey for your eight years of incredible persistence,insights, passion, fantastic photography, joie de vivre and so much more. We are all very fortunate indeed! I look forward to reading your blog every day and to meet you some day too!

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  42. Natalie Thiele

    Thank you for all the joy you have brought, Corey. Happy birthday Tongue In Cheek!

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  43. Patty G

    Wonderful! Truly amazing!!
    Your blog warms my heart, thank you so much and Happy, Happy Birthday!

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  44. Vicki from Willows

    Hello Corey……So wonderful to be Eight, wouldn’t it be fun to go back to that date? I do so anticipate how you elaborate with all your treasures near and far, providing a “space” to appreciate all of love, life, family, art and the ornate. Happy Blog B-day, Peace and Happiness from Willows, Vicki

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  45. WendyW

    Corey, thankyou for 8 wonderful years of Tongue in Cheek! I love your style of blogg, your competitions, your life in France, your gorgeous family, your brocante and for just being YOU!!!! Looking forward to many more years to come…..love from WendyW in Australia.

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  46. penelopebi@me.com

    I am a newcomer to your blog! I have had a blog for less than two years,, (I think) and every day would be an impossible task!
    I am thrilled to have followers at all!
    I discovered you through my adorable friend, the glamorous (soon to be world famous) Elizabeth of the Diana Vreelandesque (I made it up and I am being spellchecked !!)
    photo shoot in Paris and stayed in your apartment! (I plan to follow!!!)
    I adore your blog, your apartment…..and everything else! I am impressed beyond every day for 8 years. (I don’t think I knew what a blog was…….then……but I must have……I read them!!!)
    BRAVO!!!!

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  47. Evelyn

    Congratulations! Writing a blog post every day is harder work than most people think. You do a splendid job with each and every post. Love them all!!

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  48. meredith

    Happy Birthday Tongue in Cheek! I need to see you more than once every 8 years, though!

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  49. 24/7 in France

    Congratulations, Corey! Writing and maintaining a blog is indeed hard work, but so rewarding and a great source of self-satisfaction.

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  50. Jennifer Phillipps

    Well Happy Birthday Corey
    I am not able to say that I have read your blog for 8 years but I have been reading it for several years now and I can honestly say that your blog popping into my inbox each day is one of the first items I search for and read. I look forward to your insights, your triumphs and tragedies, your mystery items, your occasionally bothersome anti-brocante brother, stories about Annie, your lovely husband and children….all the things that make your blog unique and you.
    Well done and keep it comin!
    Cheers
    Jennie
    Nelson
    New Zealand

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  51. Marilyn

    Congratulations! 8 years is amazing and not to miss a day, WOW! I think I have read your blog about 7 years, you were the first one I started reading regularly. One day I hope to meet you.

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  52. Robin

    Congratulations & Happy Blog Birthday! I am grateful you gave it a spin.

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  53. Jody

    Congratulations, Corey! I can’t wait to see how the next 8 years unfold 🙂

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  54. Linda P.

    Happy Blog Anniversary!

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  55. Ardis in Oregon

    Way to go, girl. You are awesome and so is your blog. Sharing your adventures and wisdom with a morning cup of coffee has become a pleasant routine. You are loved by many (include me). Carry on.

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  56. Jenny M

    Incredible! Thank you for sharing your world with us!

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  57. Franki O

    Felicitations et bonne continuation!

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  58. leslie

    Congratulations Corey – I don’t know how you do it … truly a joy to experience a bit of life in France through you. Having visited your extraordinary home now, I am even more in awe. Every post is more wonderful than the last. Thank you for sharing your life with us every day!!

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  59. JudyO

    Happy Birthday, Tongue in Cheek! Corey, thank you for the gift of your blog every day.

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  60. Jennie

    Thank you for all your wonderful words and photos. You are truly a gifted, creative woman. So glad that you share all this with the world. Maybe I will meet you in CA someday.
    Jennie

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  61. Sarah

    Happy birthday. Thank you for your commitment.

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  62. Ann

    Happy Birthday Tongue and Cheek! Have read your blog through the years and of course the Brocante is my all time favorite. Thank you for sharing.

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  63. carol

    Thank YOU for a meaningful blog that is also fun to read. A faithful follower, I am. (Yoda here :))May you continue to blog for many more! I don’t know how you do it, but very glad that you do.

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  64. Stephanie M. (Texas)

    Congratulations to you and the blog! As the only blog I read I’m so happy to have you in my life..living vicariously through you and your adventures. And it’s been a pleasure to have met you at Round Top (twice), the Avignon market and our day together with the ladies from Bonnieux. You and Yann opened your hearts and home to some of your adoring friends. Merci mon ami.

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  65. Aranka

    Happy Blog Anniversary! I enjoy your daily postings for over 3 years now. Love them! Keep them coming!

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  66. Melissa

    Congratulations! I’m so impressed that you’ve been able to post every day! Thank you for your blog – it’s always fun to visit!

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  67. Gladys

    Magnifique–now just fitting in the time and energy to get that book underway…. We’re all waiting! Many thanks and much appreciation :=)

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  68. Debbie

    Congratulations Corey, I love Tongue in Cheek and have been reading you for many years now. Each day I look forward to seeing what you are offering us – and appreciate so much your candor, your thoughtful writing, the glimpses into the south of France which is a long time love of mine, the brocantes, the trials and tribulations and triumphs of life itself. I do hope you write a book someday you have a very special voice. Loved running into you on the street in Paris last summer and hope to see you in the south this summer! And thank you to everyone in your family who so kindly allows us a glimpse into their lives. Oh and did I mention that II also love that you are a California girl – I am in San Francisco! A bientot!

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  69. Marjorie Sue

    Fate works in mysterious ways. A dear friend introduced me to your blog after I came back from Paris last year. You kindly included my art work on your ‘Saturday Saves’ this year which led to a local woman contacting me, astonished that an artist near her home was on your blog. She had introduced your blog to the dear friend who introduced me! The triangle is complete. We all had lunch together a couple of weeks ago and were amazed that we came together because of you. See how it works? When you get back to the States, we must all get together in Northern California to make the circle complete. Your’s is the only blog I’ve ever participated in and I’m so glad I found you and get to share your love of life every night before I go to bed. It brings me Peace. Happy BD!

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  70. Bette Lee

    May I add my name to your long list of friends and followers…as a new reader I feel as if I have widened my world in a fun and joyous way…as I live so I near your hometown of Willows I share so many of your ties to Northern Ca… If you ever have a reunion here…please count me in…and don’t stop writing and bless you for sharing…

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  71. Franca Bollo

    FYI, blog = (we)b + log
    You were crazy*8 long before you started blogging.
    **In the best possible way.

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  72. Susan

    I love how you post daily. Thanks for being here. Congratulations on your blogiversary 🙂

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  73. Laurie

    Corey,
    It’s a wonderful blog and one I look forward to reading every day. You have such a lovely outlook on life. I am a better person for reading what you share. I hope to meet you some day and enjoy your part of the world.

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  74. Mardog

    I saw your Mother yesterday on this 8th anniversary. Had a Gathers fix. And I enjoy my TIC fix every morning.
    Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
    Love. Mardog

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  75. Paula

    Congratulations and Thank You, Ms Corey! I do not read blogs but LOVE yours! Your blog is about the human spirit and you bring grace to it.

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  76. Lora

    Happy Birthday to Tongue in Cheek. Thank you SO much for sharing with us!!

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  77. Kathie B

    Nutritionists just reported this week that nuts are good for people. We can take that both literally and figuratively 😉

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  78. La Contessa

    I laugh out loud………..A LOT when I read your BLOG!I also compare how similar we are……………EIGHT years and you haven’t missed a day!WOW………..that is something to be VERY PROUD of.You have a GREAT following………..keep it up!!!I pray the day does not come when you say I need a break!!!!We your readers would let you take a wee little break………AS LONG AS YOU COME BACK!!
    I hope FRENCH HUSBAND cooked tonight and rubbed your toes and gave you pink champagne………….YOU DESERVE IT!
    XXX

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  79. Camy

    Corey,
    Congratulations on eight wonderful years of Tongue in Cheek! You are a force of nature, a wonderful inspiration and a heck of a lot of fun! I feel blessed to know you and look forward to many more posts and wonderful adventures like finding the nude men at the Paris flea market with you, Yann and John. You bring me and many others daily joy.
    Camy

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  80. Camy

    Did I really just say wonderful three times in my comment? How embarrassing! However, I guess that’s because wonderful is the best way to describe you Corey. Again, many thanks for eight years of Tongue in Cheek and for being you!

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  81. Joanna

    Happy Birthday, Tongue in Cheek!!! Everyday, something beautiful and positive, wow just wow! TIC is the best blog EVER!

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  82. Irina

    Eight is a lucky number in China! To many more blogging years ahead! Cheers!

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  83. jeanie

    Congratulations, Corey, and happy anniversary! Indeed, an achievement — and you still have so many wonderful things to say! I’m glad I discovered you!

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  84. Debra

    Thank you for every single word!

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  85. Franca Bollo

    I try to leave sweet comments like yours but I’m too cranky. 🙁

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  86. Sarah

    Happy Birthday Tongue in Cheek. Thank you for all the years of daily delights.

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  87. Jody

    Happy Birthday !!!! You, by your blog, have enriched my life in many ways. I thank God for your love of life, it has inspired and encouraged me many a day. I join in with those that have both laughed and wept along with you. Delighted in the visual treasures you post, whether it be a brocante item, a cherished home , a gorgeous landscape , and especially a dear kind smiling face. Your way with words are beautiful and uplifting. I appreciate you greatly! God bless you and your Corey!!!! Much love, jody in florida

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  88. Madeline

    Happy Blogaversary! I’ve been lurking and saying hi now and then for almost as long as you’ve been writing. I hope you continue for another 8 years!

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