Month: March 2024
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How Many Cars Does a Retired Couple Need?
Reading Time: 2 minutes When Randy and I moved to Florida we brought the 2 vehicles we had in Missouri with us. Randy’s HUGE Silverado HD long bed, club cab pick-up truck barely fit in the driveway, not to mention the garage. We did get it in there once. There were about 3 inches in… Read more
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Bookbait
Reading Time: 5 minutes As I work through the lessons of this publishing course I signed up for a few weeks ago, there are assignments that help clarify your book idea, audience, and a host of other things necessary to get a book that people actually want to read published. Assignment #1 was writing your… Read more
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Shopping the Resale Stores
Reading Time: 2 minutes We went shopping yesterday…thrift shopping. Or so we thought. A lot of the stores we went to did have old, second hand, used stuff. I was surprised, though, to see how not thriftily they were priced. Perhaps that’s a sign of the financial times we’re in. Perhaps it’s me not understanding… Read more
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Spring Break on Boca Grande
Reading Time: 5 minutes Michele (one of my best friends and my most consistent beach buddy) and I went to the beach on Friday. It’s early in the year and we haven’t been to the beach, one of our favorite places, for a while. Our normal beach of choice is the 9th Street beach access… Read more
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New Site Live!
Reading Time: < 1 minute Live! After several weeks of cutting and pasting, and a week of the sometimes hair pulling frustration of trying things that don’t work, 68andCounting.com is finally live on the new host. It’ll live here for at least the next three years. None of the comments from the old blog transferred… Read more
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Clean Underwear and Ibuprofen
Reading Time: 4 minutes My niece, Emilee, is here for a few days from Wisconsin. Her daughter’s 8th birthday was last week, the same day as Randy’s birthday. She told me last night she’s having a roller skating party for her daughter next weekend. My goodness, that brought back memories, of both the skating, and of… Read more
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Trivial Matters
Reading Time: < 1 minute We did it! For the second time in three tries Randy and I were part of a team (called Mixed Nuts for those of you who are interested) that won the monthly trivia contest at the Rotonda West HOA Community Center. You may not think that’s a big deal, and… Read more
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Resurrecting Thinking 2 Steps Ahead
Reading Time: 5 minutes Those of you who’ve known me a very (VERY) long time know that for the past 40 years I’ve been talking about a concept I dubbed Thinking 2 Steps Ahead (T2SA). In the early 2000s I even trademarked the phrase and designed workshops that I taught around the area to audiences… Read more
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An Intentional Act of Kindness
Reading Time: 2 minutes This week I had the most moving opportunity to participate in an intentional act of kindness my friend Michele did for her 91-year old dad, John. John lives about an hour inland from here in an 60s era golf course villa. Because he has the beginnings of dementia he should no… Read more