Month: August 2022
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A Shrinking World
Reading Time: 4 minutesYou might recall the post I did several months ago when Randy and I travelled, by car, to Wisconsin and Minnesota for family weddings and visits. It was a good trip, but now that we live in the paradise of sunny southwest Florida, I’m much less excited about leaving home and visiting… Read more
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No Politics, No Religion
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFinding something to post about twice a week is a challenge, especially when I’ve committed to steer clear of politics and religion, at least in a partisan fashion. As I was thinking about that today, I realized I have been collecting, for years, some of the most profound, interesting, comical, ironic,… Read more
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Have You Forgotten How to Play?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs a follow up to Tuesday’s post, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want the next decade of my life to look like. The thinking reminded me that I also designed, but never offered, another Community Adult Education class called Learning to Play Again. Playing is important as an… Read more
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What Will People Say?
Reading Time: 4 minutesOn your 80th birthday, what do you want people to say about you? And how is that different than what they will say about you? A friend and I are currently having a kind of deep, on-going, existential discussion. She and I are grappling with some of the same issues. In retirement… Read more
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Time to Come Clean
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is not the place to get into all the deep, dark psychology involved, but what I want to know is why in the world do we tell ourselves all kinds of lies. We all do it. Sometimes we’re actually dumb enough to believe our own lies. Most of the time… Read more
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I Am Cynophobic
Reading Time: 3 minutesI am not an animal person. Although, for the first time in my life, I’m happy to report I am at a point where my sister Lisa can bring her beloved Dachshund, Ollie, to my house, overnight, and I’m comfortable enough to actually fall asleep. That’s a milestone for me. And another… Read more
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Want to Change Something?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve been pondering lately what to do with the rest of my life. I want (and need) to get off my butt and find something more purposeful than what I’m doing to simply pass time. If a woman I’d been mentoring back in my Woman 2 Woman ministry days came to… Read more
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Football, the Packers, and a 955-Year Waiting List
Reading Time: 4 minutesRandy and I were both born in Green Bay. Randy’s brother still lives in the house they grew up in just a block off Ridge Road, 6 blocks from Lambeau Field. Randy’s dad was a First Aid Manager for the Packers years and years ago, and Randy spent some quality kid time… Read more
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Forget the Flying Car, I Want Rosie
Reading Time: 3 minutesMy sister Lisa posted this meme on Facebook last Sunday. Oh Lord! George Jetson was born this week. I laughed and then started to read the comments on the original post. There is a wealth of information and trivia there. If you who missed the Facebook post, I figured you’d enjoy laughing,… Read more