Month: June 2023
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Living Fearlessly
Reading Time: 2 minutes I feel completely blessed that somewhere along the way, I’ve learned to not live my life in fear. In fact, even facing a life threatening cancer diagnosis hasn’t triggered any fear and anxiety in me. Understanding and embracing that birth is a death sentence helps give me the freedom to simply… Read more
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The Remorse of Digital Photos
Reading Time: 4 minutes Remorse, as I’m using it here, means deep regret for a wrong committed. The wrong here is purely unintentional, and probably universally world-wide these days, but I am certain that culturally, we may regret thinking that digital photos will replace printed photos for documenting family history. When my friend Cindy was… Read more
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Those Try-On Apps
Reading Time: < 1 minute My sister Lisa turned me on to Zenni Optical. You upload your eyeglass prescription, then go to their website where you take a picture of yourself according to their directions. Their app then allows you to see any pair of glasses they sell on your face. I thought it was… Read more
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What a Circus!
Reading Time: 5 minutes I don’t know what it is about retirement. Maybe my mind is not cluttered anymore with all the things I need to think about and retain now that I’m not committed to a paying job for most of my waking hours. Or maybe it’s just that, like the old joke about… Read more
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The Circus
Reading Time: 2 minutes We live less than 35 miles from what became, in 1927, the winter home of the Ringling Circus in Sarasota. The city became known as Circus City and is home to a lot of circus history, museums and culture that are often lost in the much more well known beach culture… Read more
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Broads in Space
Reading Time: 4 minutes This is the tale of three women who met in the early 1980s while stationed in a Combat Logistics Support Squadron at McClellan Air Force Base in Sacramento, California. All were members of the United States Air Force, each was married to a male member of the United States military, and… Read more
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A Sunny Place for Shady People
Reading Time: < 1 minute I drove past a quaint little adult beverage establishment in Englewood a few months ago. The bar, called Will’s Honkytonk, had a slogan on their sign that I loved and has stuck with me. It says “A shady place for sunny people.” Clever and delightful. We learned that Will’s is… Read more
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The Path Between the Seas
Reading Time: 4 minutes I think I’ve mentioned in previous posts that 10-15 years ago I got interested in American History in a big way. That led to putting an item on my bucket list to read a biography of every president in order. I am not so much interested in the individual presidents as… Read more
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In Praise of Avocados
Reading Time: < 1 minute Years ago, when people asked me if I liked a certain food, like zucchini or liver, I would tell them I didn’t eat anything with the last 6 letters of the alphabet in its name. I was mostly not joking. Somewhere along the line, in the not too distant past,… Read more