Month: April 2023
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Wordle
Reading Time: < 1 minute I’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… Read more
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In Praise of Walking
Reading Time: 4 minutes Full 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… Read more
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Why Not Say What You Mean?
Reading Time: < 1 minute I 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… Read more
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It’s True. Dammit!
Reading Time: 5 minutes I 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… Read more
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The 4th Quarter (of Your Life)
Reading Time: < 1 minute For 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… Read more
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Putting Pooped Behind Me
Reading Time: 4 minutes Randy 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,… Read more
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You Can’t Get There From Here
Reading Time: 2 minutes I 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… Read more
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I Broke My Foot Off
Reading Time: 4 minutes It 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… Read more