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Online Security: Why Were We Whacked and Hacked?
The Hackers Did A Hack Job On Us! I’ve been keeping my login credentials in my browser for many sites, because of the ease, convenience and hey, they were just shopping sites, so I didn’t worry much about online security. My credit card is protected, right? Google works hard to keep their browser safe, afterall, […]
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P@s$W)rds!
Can you keep up with today’s password requirements? Nearly every site needs a password. One site wants special characters, the other doesn’t. Some sites require changing passwords every so often. Nothing is consistent with websites and passwords for me, other than I am constantly changing them due to my inability to remember them. Some days, […]
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Tips to Stop Spectrum TWC Junk Mail
For several reasons, I spend a small amount of time each month getting off junk mail lists. It’s not all about the environment, though I do care about wasteful ways, landfills that are at capacity and natural resources. Environmentalists and the ‘save the earth’ peeps have valid points about ridding us all of junk mail, […]
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Breaking 200
I Fit In A Smaller Size and….
This is a quick update post. I am in a small size. Thank goodness. I wanted to wear those capris – the fabric is lighter than the pair I kept hiking up the past six weeks or so. I also noticed the jammies I bought when I was almost 30 pounds heaver are way too […]
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Breaking 200
I’m Italian and I CAN enjoy a KETO Way of Life
Weight loss isn’t a race of speed. It’s a lifestyle pace to get it off and keep it off. Can a 50-ish woman reach her end of summer weight loss goals? Amusing daily posts of her snail’s pace journey to BREAKING 200.
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Smarty Pants Rants
How To Vacation and Know Your Dog and House are Safe
Aren’t they cute. Two of my ROVER® regular guests for another summertime stay in my casa. Meet Puerto Rican rescue Libby all comfy in the chair and Billy Joel, high up so he can watch out the window. Photo Credit: Sherri Ettore-Carlson. HOW I SNAGGED A STRESS-FREE SUMMER GETAWAY WITH ROVER® I’m taking a quick […]
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Food Affair
Zucchini Ribbons w/Lemon-Garlic Sauce
I had a bumper crop of zucchini. They all came in at once and I was looking for ways to utilize them. This summer, I’ll be in the kitchen creating and sharing the how-tos like this keto zucchini recipe. Forgive me for not having a great photo of this. I snapped a quick one with […]
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Smarty Pants Rants
Why You Should Feed Your Dog Homemade Dog Food
When we got our puppy, Deli, a black lab-pointer mix, our family decided she would eat only a homemade dog food and that we would never give her commercially prepared dog food. Definitely not the grain-heavy dry stuff in the 100 pound bags for about $30 bucks. We fed our other two fur babies food […]
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