Month: September 2023
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Sometimes You Just Got Nothin’
Reading Time: < 1 minute We’re at my mom’s in Manitowoc again, and Friday morning rolled around much faster than I imagined this week. I’ve got several blog post ideas rolling around in my head, but none seemed to work for the short post this week. Usually I work under pressure, but this morning I… Read more
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How Mammoth is that Cave?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Being retired is great. No getting around it. I am rich beyond imagination by the definition that true wealth is control over your own time. After our little jaunt to Gatlinburg (we didn’t check into the house until the third night after we left Florida) we meandered our way up to… Read more
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Change of Scenery
Reading Time: < 1 minute I love living at the beach but as I’ve said many times before, sometimes you’ve got to travel away from the paradise you live in to see people you love. That’s what happened this week. We’re spending time in the mountains with Randy’s siblings and their spouses. This is the… Read more
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In-Laws and Out-Laws
Reading Time: 4 minutes Several years ago, before COVID totally disrupted everyone’s lives, Randy’s immediate family made plans for a mini-reunion in conjunction with a trip to visit the life-sized Noah’s Ark at the Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Kentucky. We ended up cancelling once and rescheduling, then cancelling the second time because COVID was….well, a… Read more
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I Just Can’t Do It
Reading Time: 2 minutes You know how it is when you neglect picking up little things around the house? You stop seeing them, these little things lying around that aren’t in their place because you left them in the last place you used them? One day you wake up and with new eyes see your… Read more
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You’ve Got Snail Mail!
Reading Time: 5 minutes When was the last time you went to the mailbox and came back clutching a personal letter from someone you value in your life? Not a greeting card with a few handwritten words to supplement the generic message some anonymous greeting card writer wrote. Not a thank you note for a… Read more
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Yes, I’m Ready for Some Football
Reading Time: < 1 minute Last August I wrote a post titled Football, the Packers and a 955-Year Waiting List. You can read it by clicking on the link here. I love that the seasons don’t change much in Florida, but September is notable year in and year out because it’s the start of the… Read more
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Toxic Positivity. Huh??
Reading Time: 4 minutes In my post two weeks ago, I recommended you read Dr Gladys McGarey’s book, The Well-Lived Life. I’m doing my second read through this week, picking up all kinds of things this time that I missed on the first go-round. After Hurricane Ian I put up this sign in our yard.… Read more
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A Very Good Day
Reading Time: < 1 minute Today I had the very last medical appointment pertaining to the cancer diagnosis I got in January. It was a second opinion with a medical oncologist. I was astounded and gratified that he “felt extremely comfortable” with the decision I’d made to decide not to have any radiation or aromatase… Read more