<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442886442330552359</id><updated>2024-09-04T05:03:24.422-07:00</updated><category term="Deep Thoughts"/><title type='text'>Honey, Don&#39;t Freak Out, But...</title><subtitle type='html'>Shit Happens!</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://velvettush.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6442886442330552359/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://velvettush.blogspot.com/'/><author><name>Robin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16546785350999393723</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_GgpOtBgyN3ZOjAMfrMS36o64qf_F5jYHWoa6Y1gUh0EWuF2838cFjy8LSOY57jjL_xLoULnYlAYY8NxnLZVZUv0A6i0kU8Czrd67Q2dj_JUyYN_X9uSeJjhH_Il_lw/s220/100_3351+Medium+Web+view.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442886442330552359.post-4029142673284666236</id><published>2020-08-12T05:39:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2020-08-12T05:39:52.505-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Deep Thoughts"/><title type='text'>In the Beginning...</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;A few years ago a therapist told me a way to cope with things that I am dealing with is to write them down.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;So I did. And it helped. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A great deal of issues were resolved. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
Then I started writing other things, cute tales about life and my history. I wanted to share my stories but I wanted to maintain a certain amount of privacy. I will tell you everything I know but I still wanted to protect myself. I wanted to protect my husband and my girls mostly. They are the most important people in my life. 
I came up with a new personality called Nadine. That was really the easy part because Jim calls me Nadine anyway. I could use Nadine to tell my stories and not worry about family interfering or getting their panties in a wad.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;There are people that I am related to that are embarrassed by me and my shenanigans. And I don&#39;t need that!
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But what I did need was a feeling of family, an involvement with others and not just Jim. As Nadine I could do that without judgment.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Where am I going with this you ask?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Patience, Grasshopper. I am related to Fred Plumer, I tell stories and am long winded. 
I want to share the stories I wrote with the rest of the interweb. I want to share them with my girls and grandkids.
Maybe those that don&#39;t know me will come to understand why I refer to this odd life of mine the Church of The Holy Robin.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
Then again maybe not.
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