Life Reflections

Memories and Musings of Yesterday and Today - by Janice Neves

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Dec 31, 2020
9 min

Comforts I Found During a Year of Covid

This is the time of year when I would normally reflect back on all the exciting travel experiences David and I enjoyed over the past 12...

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The Legend of the High School Band Medal

Janice Neves

Oct 24, 2020
6 min

The Legend of the High School Band Medal

Nobody's perfect. Everybody loses stuff. Unless you're lucky to have a personal assistant with you 24/7 to remind you of every little...

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Our 1991 Summer Vacation with Hurricane Bob

Janice Neves

Aug 26, 2020
3 min

Our 1991 Summer Vacation with Hurricane Bob

Whether by chance or by accident, our most memorable family vacations have been those weeks spent in Wellfleet, Cape Cod, and August of...

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Janice Neves

Aug 21, 2020
2 min

Ann & Hope - the Final Days

This is an addendum to my previous blog, Ann & Hope-Loss of More Than A Store. I was in Cumberland today and decided to pay a visit to...

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Janice Neves

Aug 15, 2020
5 min

The Summer of My Broken Ankle

Here it is, August 2020, and like most of the world, I haven't been much of anywhere beyond a 10-mile radius of my backyard, thanks to...

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Janice Neves

Aug 10, 2020
4 min

Choose: My Husband or My Cat?

We have always had cats in the family over the course of our 43-year marriage, up until 2016, that is. Our first kitties as a married...

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Janice Neves

Jul 25, 2020
7 min

These Four Walls: Prelude to Retirement

shut down. We saw the same four walls. Every day."

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Janice Neves

Jul 8, 2020
5 min

Three Channels and a Tube

A trio of channels, a snowy black and white image and a picture tube encased in a box. Saturday morning cartoons and a bowl of Frosted...

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Janice Neves

Jul 1, 2020
4 min

The Lost Art of Pen Pal Correspondence

During this Covid-19 pandemic, and the resulting suspension of travel, there hasn’t been much for a travel professional to write about....

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Janice Neves

Jul 1, 2020
4 min

Ann & Hope: Loss of More Than a Store

We were warned. The Coronavirus pandemic would result in a new normal - a change in the way we work, live, go to school and spend money....

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