Month: October 2025
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That Wasn’t So Bad
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn Tuesday I wrote about my love/hate relationship with smart phones. I was in the dread phase of the hate end of the relationship that morning because we had an appointment to get new cell phones on Wednesday. Today is Friday morning and Randy and I are both chock full of relief.… Read more
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A Seenager’s Love/Hate Memoir of Telephones
Reading Time: 6 minutesFirst, in case you’ve never heard the term before, a SEENAGER is a mashup of the words senior and teenager. (Just for the record, the proper term for a newly coined mashup word or expression is a neologism. Don’t worry though, I don’t expect you to actually remember that. Just trying to… Read more
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It Took More Than 10 Years…
Reading Time: 2 minutesI first applied for Randy to be admitted to the VA Health Care system more than 10 years ago. I tried again after we moved to Florida. He was denied both times because our household income exceeded the threshold Congress set in a law passed in 2003. It’s not a particularly big… Read more
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Just the Facts, Ma’am
Reading Time: 6 minutesAs we contemplated whether or not to undertake the Epic 50th Anniversary Grand Adventure Road Trip, we greatly considered the cost of the adventure. I’m a relative cheapskate which is why, Randy claims, we have the money to even consider doing something of this magnitude. Part of the considerations, as I’ve written… Read more
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A Sandy Mess
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe’d spent the night in Tucson, AZ. On the morning of October 6, I went to the bathroom around 6 am and noticed I had a text from our next door neighbor asking us to call when we could. I didn’t want to wake Randy that early but I had a feeling… Read more
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We’re Back Home
Reading Time: 6 minutesWe rolled into our garage yesterday afternoon, which ended the Road Trip, Phase 2, of the Epic 50th Anniversary Grand Adventure Road Trip. The Epic 50th Anniversary Grand Adventure Continues. Our actual anniversary is in December. We’ve been in the car every day for the last week for a minimum of 5… Read more
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Coolest Rest Stop Ever
Reading Time: 2 minutesEvery day truly is a new travel adventure. This week we’re in a part of the country we’ve never been through before, traveling I-10 East from Tucson, Arizona to San Antonio, Texas. From an interstate highway rest stop perspective, every state does things a little differently. On Tuesday we stopped at the… Read more
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The Long, Long, Long State of California
Reading Time: 6 minutesOn Sunday afternoon we crossed into Arizona on Interstate 40. I can’t say I was sorry to say good-bye to California. I WON’T say I was sorry to say good-bye to California. I have a love/hate relationship with what we used to call, even 40 years ago when we lived there, the… Read more
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A Relaxing Few Days
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor the past few days we’re back in the Sierra Nevada foothills where, when we lived in the Sacramento area for 12 years (1982-1994), we spent a heck of a lot of time. Our forever friends, Don and Ina live on 10 acres between Grass Valley and Auburn. They have 2 horses,… Read more