Month: April 2023
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Wordle
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m addicted to a relatively new, once-a-day, on-line game. Called Wordle, it’s named after its inventor, a Welsh software engineer named Josh Wardle (convenient, huh?). A player has 6 tries to guess a 5 letter word. Feedback is given to players in the form of color tiles. Green means the correct… Read more
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In Praise of Walking
Reading Time: 4 minutesFull disclosure: I stole the title of this blog from the title of a book by an Irish neurosurgeon named Shane O’Mara. I ran across several YouTube interviews with him recently because YouTube apparently knows everything about what’s important to me in my life at the moment. I wrote a blog last… Read more
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Why Not Say What You Mean?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI have an Associate’s Degree in Marketing. It’s been interesting to me, over the years, to watch the language of our culture change to put the best possible spin on the baloney that happens so they can shape and control our opinions and thoughts. Words I grew up with, like gay,… Read more
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It’s True. Dammit!
Reading Time: 5 minutesI have a very sedentary lifestyle. I like it that way. I prefer cerebral rather than physical activities. Always have, always will. I love to read, put together jigsaw puzzles, play cards and board games, and learn things. My activities of choice don’t involve much movement and yes, I am aware it… Read more
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The 4th Quarter (of Your Life)
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor my birthday last week a friend gave me a copy of a book called No Regrets and its accompanying workbook, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life. No Regrets is a quick read, a parable of sorts, and Randy and I both read it in a couple of hours. We started… Read more
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Putting Pooped Behind Me
Reading Time: 4 minutesRandy and I spent most of the last 10 days putting our house back together after the contractor claimed they were done with water damage repairs from Hurricane Ian. The repairs started back in mid-February when they ripped out the ceiling and walls in the master bedroom, and the vanity, toilet, ceiling… Read more
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You Can’t Get There From Here
Reading Time: 2 minutesI had to drive from our home to the Fort Lauderdale airport yesterday to pick up my niece and her daughter. It should have been a fairly quick 3 hour drive on I-75. But as I was leaving Port Charlotte I happened to pull up the route on Google maps and discovered… Read more
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I Broke My Foot Off
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt was January 1993 (I think). Twenty years after I’d graduated from junior college, I finally collected enough classes to qualify for a bachelor’s degree. Photo by Bruce Christianson on Unsplash That evening I took my very last final exam. We were living in the Sierra Nevada foothills in Folsom, CA in… Read more