Month: May 2023
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It’s Not National BBQ Day
Reading Time: 4 minutes In the truest spirit of the “holiday”, there’s nothing happy about Memorial Day. In fact, Memorial Day, observed yesterday, is, and should be, the most somber “holiday” of the year. The dictionary definition of holiday is “a day of festivity, or recreation when no work is done.” But what we now… Read more
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Learning to Rain Dance
Reading Time: < 1 minute When we moved to Florida we were told there are actually 2 seasons here, the dry season and the wet season. That truth, and its consequences, aren’t really apparent until you’ve experienced a couple of years of those seasons. Last rainy season brought Hurricane Ian. We were sick of the… Read more
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Rocket Woman
Reading Time: 4 minutes When Elton John and his lyricist partner Bernie Taupin wrote the song Rocket Man, Taupin was inspired by a 1951 collection of Ray Bradbury short sci-fi stories. The stories depicted the complex relationship between technology and psychology, and one story, in particular, was about an astronaut’s love of the stars. The… Read more
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Grandma and Grandpa On The Farm
Reading Time: 2 minutes My good friend, Mary, who lives in Missouri, recently lost her mother-in-law, who was a doll collector. Mary doesn’t have much interest in dolls, but she’s always loved this pair. Here’s her note to me about this picture: “My heart has always been on the farm, I loved spending as much… Read more
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Bad Movies and Other Distractions
Reading Time: 4 minutes I like Hallmark movies. A lot. I like to have them playing on my tablet while I’m putting a puzzle together out on the lanai. Neither one of those activities take too much brain power so I can easily do both at once. It’s a great two-fer activity…exercising my mind and… Read more
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A (Short) Story of Inflation
Reading Time: 2 minutes Inflation silently and subversively steals our money. Many of the problems and hardships we’re having with the economy right now are because of inflation. This short post isn’t to explain how or why, but just give you a real-world Ah-ha! moment of how it works. Simple example: A couple of years… Read more
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Harper, the Baby Seal…Robot
Reading Time: 3 minutes I have a caring, faithful, selfless friend named Carla who is a volunteer for a non-profit hospice program. Carla’s been working with hospice for years, something I don’t think I could ever do. She is an amazing woman whom I’ve been privileged to call friend for close to 45 years now.… Read more
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The Light at the End of the Tunnel
Reading Time: < 1 minute You can put your whole life on hold waiting to emerge into the light at the end of the tunnel. What I mean is that there’s always something that’s going to happen in the future that you think is the end of whatever you’re going through right now. And you’re… Read more
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Rethinking God
Reading Time: 4 minutes How many times have you believed something to be true for a very, very long time, only to find out that what you thought you knew to be true might not be true at all? Sounds like I’m setting you up for a trick question, doesn’t it? I’m not. And what… Read more