Michelle Obama's Mirror

WLS was a powerhouse station out of Chicago back when AM radio was your only option. It reached western Michigan as well as many other distant locations with brilliant clarity at night when even ...

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Finally, the 2024 eclipse will arrive today after much hype. We’re not in the path of totality but will experience a 99% event. That 1%, local forecasters remind us, makes a huge differe...

http://www.michellesmirror.com/2024/04/here-comes-sun.html

The American Blue Footed Booby: AKA “Let’s Go Brandon”

http://www.michellesmirror.com/2024/04/happy-wings-day.html

REPOST FROM EASTER 2023 AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, BE NOT AMAZED: YOU SEEK JESUS OF NAZARETH, WHO WAS CRUCIFIED: HE IS RISEN; HE IS NOT HERE: BEHOLD THE PLACE WHERE THEY LAID HIM. AND GO QU...

http://www.michellesmirror.com/2024/03/easter-2024.html

  Combined with on-going anemia, poor sleep patterns leave me enervated. Will get new scans and such this week prior to oncologist appointment late next week. Will do an update after that. Th...

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TODAY’S POST IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY RAJ   I’ve always had a soft spot for our neighbors to the south , so I was sad to hear that Toronto is experiencing a car theft epidemic . As the artic...

http://www.michellesmirror.com/2024/03/leave-em-in-car-eh.html

  Sedgewick the hedge hog was none too pleased either. But let’s just give today to the dogs, as is our custom.

http://www.michellesmirror.com/2024/03/dr-hedgehhog.html

They don’t deserve to govern. So remain ungovernable. And happy mutt day.

http://www.michellesmirror.com/2024/03/remain-ungovernable.html

No, not Trump, Elon Musk. Google's Gemini AI: "Wow, tough question. Too close to call." It’s enough to exhaust anyone. Conflating Hitler with Elon Musk: Gemini AI has clearly been immers...

http://www.michellesmirror.com/2024/02/googles-gemini-ai-hes-as-bad-as-hitler.html

In the mean time, how about a pic that looks like a real-life Currier and Ives print. WINTER PEACE Here’s to funnier…

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People have argued for years that it doesn’t make any difference who you vote for. Even putting the stolen election aside, the blithering, blathering – literally -  out of touch dementia...

http://www.michellesmirror.com/2024/02/living-in-evil-times-doing-best-we-can.html

The Monday Morning Mutt Day photo that says it all. Buster knows what’s what.

http://www.michellesmirror.com/2024/02/happyish-mutt-day.html

  Another day, another argument. Remember when Mexican food was a taco? And a taco was simple? Crunchy shell, taco meat, cheese, lettuce, bam, you’re done. Now you have to choose b...

http://www.michellesmirror.com/2024/01/consider-taco.html

You can pick up factoids in the strangest places. For example, I saw this on my box of Kleenex this morning: “BUTTERFLY WINGS ARE TRANSPARENT. THE COLORS YOU SEE AS A BUTTERFLY FLITS ACROSS T...

http://www.michellesmirror.com/2024/01/butterflies-are-free-to-fly.html

Some people think Taco Tuesday started as cultural appropriation. Actually it began as part of the Body Positivity movement: Enjoy it while you can as you won’t be we allowed to celebrate...

http://www.michellesmirror.com/2024/01/taco-tuesday-day-after-iowa-caucuses.html

Is it too soon to dream of Spring?  PICNIC TABLE IN WINTER - Scott Prior > And spring flowers? > FLOWERS – Constantine Font  >  > I think not.  >  > Sorry, still too�...

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2023 New Year post updated: Last year it was my eyes, this year it’s a severe energy deficit due to anemia so, like last year I’m not posting anything new but I have assembled a few exceRPTS ...

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> YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT I HAVE A LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP WITH HALLMARK > CHRISTMAS MOVIES. I SOMETIMES LOVE THE SIMPLISTIC, MIND-NUMBING LOVE > STORIES WITH HAPPY ENDINGS T...

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> AND, LO, THE ANGEL OF THE LORD CAME UPON THEM, AND THE GLORY OF THE > LORD SHONE ROUND ABOUT THEM: AND THEY WERE SORE AFRAID. AND THE > ANGEL SAID UNTO THEM, FEA...

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Christmas was a long time coming to the MOTUS house this year. We didn’t even get the tree out until this week and when we did the result was, well, predictable. THERE’S ALWAYS ONE NAYSAYER...

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It’s Throwback Thursday, so how about another repost? This from December 21, 2019: For never-resting time leads summer on To hideous winter and confounds him there; Sap cheque'd with frost ...

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ORIGINALLY POSTED (MOSTLY) DECEMBER 16, 2019 >    >  > It’s time once again to reminisce about the days of Christmas Past > when shopping entailed a trip downtown to v...

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STILL NOSTALGIC AFTER ALL THESE YEARS: ORIGINALLY POSTED DECEMBER 15, 2018  > WHEN I WAS GROWING UP  EVERY TOWN HAD AT LEAST ONE ICONIC > DEPARTMENT STORE THAT DID CHRISTMA...

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>     >  > “I SPILL TOWARDS THE STARS IN THE EMPTY YEARS.” > ANNE SEXTON, FROM “WHERE I LIVE IN THIS HONORABLE HOUSE OF THE > LAUREL TREE”    >  > 

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Thank you to all the MOTI for our care package which arrived from the world famous Katz’s Delicatessen in NYC. I can report that at least one thing in that city still works right. It arri...

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