Month: January 2024
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The Guest Test
Reading Time: 5 minutes When you live in Southwest Florida, weather wise, winter is the most magnificent time of the year. Someone once told us that there ARE two seasons in Florida, wet season and dry season. I contend that dry season could also be called guest season because dry season in Florida coincides with… Read more
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Save a LOT of Money with Zenni
Reading Time: < 1 minute Randy and I both had eye doctor appointments last week for the first time in more than three years. Between moving to Florida in 2021, the hurricane in 2022 and all of the rigamarole involved with those two significant life events, getting our eyes examined wasn’t a priority. My sister… Read more
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Child/Parent Role Reversal
Reading Time: 5 minutes Randy and I were lucky to have parents married to each other for their entire adult lives. Three of the four of them are now gone. Only my mom, who will be 90 in June, remains. We both have good memories of our childhood. We were well taken care of by… Read more
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Reassembling My Dad
Reading Time: < 1 minute My dad died exactly 1 week before Christmas in 2017. I wrote about him in a Father’s Day post a couple of years ago. I miss him a lot. Every year around the anniversary of his permanent departure out of his earthly body, I make a point to reassemble the… Read more
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My Favorite IF Things
Reading Time: 5 minutes I woke up Sunday morning with “Raindrops on roses, and whiskers on kittens” on my mind. I know. Weird. They were the favorite things Julie Andrews sang about in Sound of Music, but it prompted me to think about my favorite things about intermittent fasting (IF). My last two blog posts… Read more
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Family
Reading Time: < 1 minute I’m feeling sentimental today thinking about family and how important they are to me. I know lots of families have lots of problems. Its so sad that some families are completely estranged from one another. Randy and I love that both our immediate families are, for the most part, people… Read more
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Intermittent Fasting (IF)
Reading Time: 5 minutes If you missed my post last week, be sure to read it here before you continue with this one. This week’s post is a continuation of it. Fasting is a word that, growing up, had all kinds of religious connotations. It implied piety and penance, spirituality and sacrifice. Few people outside of… Read more
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Is RVing Back?
Reading Time: < 1 minute OK, honestly, I don’t know for a fact that it ever left. But from our observations over the past few years, we surmised that while a lot of folks bought RVs at the beginning of the covid thing, as the thing wore on and many campgrounds closed, RVing became harder… Read more
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Look and Feel Fabulous in ‘24
Reading Time: 4 minutes We had lunch with some friends in Missouri last week. It’s been almost a year since I’d seen her. She walked in and I was struck by how terrific she looked. She’d acknowledged she’d lost weight, but it was more than that. She looked healthier and had a glow about her… Read more