Month: November 2023
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A Unique Thanksgiving Dinner
Reading Time: 2 minutes There’s a first time for everything. It took me and Randy 70 years (give or take) to experience our first American Thanksgiving dinner at a Chinese buffet. Buffet City is our favorite restaurant any other day of the year. We didn’t know how much Thanksgiving (with turkey on the buffet) would… Read more
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Simply Thankful
Reading Time: 5 minutes Last year around Thanksgiving I wrote a short post with a little history of the Thanksgiving holiday. This year, after another brush with breast cancer, I’m feeling very grateful for life itself, and for the abundance and blessing with which we live that life. Let me count just a few of… Read more
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Dance Like Nobody is Watching
Reading Time: 2 minutes How many of us are self-conscious when dancing? It’s one thing to get out on the dance floor and shuffle our feet, move our hips a little, sway to the beat, and twist and turn in place. But it’s quite another to get out there, pull out all the stops, get… Read more
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Retire Like a Millionaire
Reading Time: 5 minutes Last weekend my sister Lisa and I crashed the Lifestyle Visit my brother Denny and his wife Marlene made to The Villages in central Florida. Lisa and I have both lived in Florida for a while now and have, of course, heard about The Villages. Neither of us knew much about… Read more
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Project Linus
Reading Time: < 1 minute You remember Linus from the Peanuts cartoon? He’s the kid dragging the blanket wherever he goes. Turns out Linus is the poster boy for a national project I recently found out about. And this worthy project is right up my alley. The mission of Project Linus two-fold. First, to provide… Read more
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Money, Wealth, and Riches
Reading Time: 5 minutes I ran across something I shared, with proper attribution, on Facebook the other day. I don’t know who originally wrote the post, but it was thoughtful, wise, and, in my opinion, correct. You can read the full post here. Here are the parts that are relevant to my post today. Between… Read more
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Garage Sales
Reading Time: < 1 minute I have a hate/hate relationship with garage sales. I hate going to them and I hate having them. Yet, in nearly 50 years of marriage, and being raised by my mom, I have learned that garage sales are a necessary evil of modern life. This morning I’m sitting at my… Read more