"It was tricky finding a place in his room to sit. There was a constant stream of visitors…. "The nurses said they’d never seen so many friends in a patient’s room." www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/my-son-david/ #Hospice #HospiceCare #Family #LifeAndDeath #MotherAndSonBond #MotherAndSon #GrievingMom

“Turn the volume up!!!” Full Post: www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/turn-the-vol... #TurnTheVolumeUp #NoKings #NoKingsProtest #NoKingsSantaCruz #Democrats #DemocracyInAction #DemocracyMatters #HardWork #Focus #Primaries #Yeson50 #Prop50 #California

Just Checking In... "Life is a crazy mix, perhaps you’ve noticed." www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/just-checkin... #CheckingIn #Bronchitis #Brandy #LifeandDeath #EldestSon #FirstBornSon

"The March" "Nothing I can add to what you’ve likely read and heard about the tens of thousands of us across the country. Just that I’m so glad I did it…." www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/the-march/ #NoKings #NoKingsProtest #SantaCruz #NoKingsSantaCruz #NoKingsInAmerica #NoKingsDay #Indivisible

My I Love America Morning! "This Saturday (October 19th) I’m going to join the No-Kings Protest here in Santa Cruz." www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/my-i-love-am... #NoKings #NoKingsProtest #SantaCruz #SantaCruzCalifornia

The Trip That Settled Traveling Again? " ... travel ain’t what it used to be. "I loved it until this last trip." Read on: www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/the-trip-tha... #Travel #Travelling #TravellingChallenge #OnlineCheckIn #LovetoTravel

"I can’t imagine there is even a handful of women of a certain age on this planet who, this morning, don’t feel diminished by the loss of their sister, Jane Goodall." Read the full post: www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/the-inspirin... #DrJaneGoodall #JaneGoodall #JaneGoodallInstitute #Gombe

A Happy Accident Excerpt: "Bill broke the cup by accident … Fate tore it at a good time. .... In perfect harmony with the rest of my life…." Full Post: www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/a-happy/ #Malibu #Limoges #LimogesPorcelain #TeaCup #Stoneware #HappyAccident #Chaotic #Kitchen #LettingGo #Fate

Crazy to Sing! "Each year there was a Spring Sing–the annual meeting of all the clubs focused on the competition of clubs singing." Read on: www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/crazy-to-sing/ #SpringSing #Choir #ChoirCompetition #PerfectPitch #Soprano #GleeClub #ChurchChoir #YMCA

A Cinematographer to Keep an Eye on We are over the moon exultant at the news of #cinematographer Christopher Ripley’s achievement in the #VeniceFilmFestival. Chris is boon companion of our granddaughter, James Francis Whelan IV. www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/a-cinematogr...

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And #1 as well. Thank you SO much!

all of the above, please!

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Checking In ~ End of Summer 2025 "Yesterday I wrote my children asking if they remembered where they were forty years ago on that day…. " www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/checking-in-... #CheckingIn #EndofSummer #HappyAnniversary #VeniceInternationalFilmFestival #Torcello #RisottoRecipe #HappyLaborDay

My Nights with Harry Bosch " .... I discovered there’d been a TV series based on Connelly’s 24 Harry Bosch novels .... Whoa. Was it still available to watch?" www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/my-nights-wi... #MichaelConnelly #HarryBosch #TVSeries #DetectiveFiction #DetectiveSeries #BoschLegacy

Have You Tasted Sublime Fresh Spinach Lately? Read the full post to find out how and why: www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/have-you-tas... #Recipe #Spinach #FreshSpinach #SpinachRecipe

Time to Wake Up! “First you need spelt flour.” “I can probably get that at Amazon.” Beat. “You’re not going to buy spelt flour from Amazon! Sylvia!” Full post: www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/2016-2/ #WakeUp #WakeUpAmerica #PurchasePower #PurchaseWithPurpose #BoycottAmazon #WeThePeople

The Sad Inevitable Jolt ~ When? 'Ma, you shouldn’t be driving at all anymore.' Read On: www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/the-sad-inev...

50+ Dems Slam Rubio Plan to Burn 500 Metric Tons of Emergency Food Aid "This action is not only morally indefensible, but also wasteful, strategically shortsighted, and completely counter to www.commondreams.org/news/usaid-t...

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"Headline in theatlantic.com July 14, 2025 as well as many other news organizations: “The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food”* Full post: www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/you-need-to-... #EmergencyFood #ForeignAid #StateofAffairs #HungryChildren

"Lavender Lady" "This began six or seven months ago when in a heap of Sylviania in a bathroom drawer a small round plastic compact with compressed lavender/periwinkle powder turned up." www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/1973-2/ #LavenderEyes #NeverTooLate #NeverTooLatetoStart #BeYourself #LavenderLady

"My Stolen Hour" "It’s my Abbey Thursday! Favorite hour in the week. Sylvia’s Free-Play Day. Hour." Read the full post at www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/a-stolen-hour/ #BlissOut #StolenTime #FreePlayDays #SantaCruz #WingbackChair #CappuccinoTime #Cappuccino #CappuccinoArt

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"Last we left The Old Girl she had something inside her bum that had to be reckoned with … something, uh, what my small children would call 'omnious.' www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/clean-as-a-w... #SurgicalProcedure #Biopsy #CTScan

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"My Uppy Downy #Ninetieth #Birthday" "I’ll tell you the truth. Being ninety-actually arriving at so august, so distant, so unlikely/impossible a number–on the one hand turned out not to be a biggie. On the other hand, it’s mind-boggling, marvelous....." www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/on-turning-n...

Day after tomorrow, I’ll enter my 91st year … whoopee! 90 years old. Whoa. Ma made it to 100. I’m on my way. Maybe. Anyway, I’m grateful for every minute! And your company. P.S. Our novel is almost finished!!! www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/onward-and-u... #OnwardandUpward #Birthday #NinetyYearsOld

"It seems to me every food tastes richer, is more pleasurable from an earthenware vessel. Being from the earth, it’s from whence the food itself originated, so there’s a significant, moving coalescence…" www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/the-pleasure... #HandmadeCeramics #Pottery @nanwollman.bsky.social

"A Rewarding Way with Solitaire" "....here am I to tell you how I discovered that a three-to-four-minute game of Solitaire can be valuable. Can launch each working day." Read the full post at www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/a-fun-way-wi... #Solitaire #CardGames #KlondikeSolitaire #BlogSky #AuthorSky

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"The #Apple of Big Dreams" "Have you discovered the great new American apple, COSMIC CRISP? ".... #CosmicCrisp is expected to replace #RedDelicious & Gala as America’s go-to apples." Read about the apple itself, it's history & genealogy: www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/the-apple-of...

Oh Horrors! There’s Plastic in Our Salt! "....a few days ago...my inbox had a letter...that included the fact that I had PLASTIC IN MY SALT! – I had no idea. It was a blow." Full post www.sylviathompsonsblog.com/oh-horrors-t... #MicroPlastics #Salt #Greenpeace #BeyondPlastics #BlogSky #CookingSky

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