Month: March 2026
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The Secret to Happiness
Reading Time: 5 minutesNearly 4 years ago (I can’t believe I’ve been writing this blog that long!) one of the first blog posts I wrote here at 68andcounting.com was called There IS a Secret to Happiness. You’ll find the link to that post here. In it I said, essentially, that the secret to happiness is… Read more
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The One Year Check-In
Reading Time: 4 minutesA year ago I wrote a blog post after having lunch with my Airplane Girls. All of us are interested in politics and we were discussing then the condition of our lives and the state of the country just a few months after Trump took office for his second term. He was… Read more
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Theo of Golden
Reading Time: 5 minutesMy friend Michele received a copy of Theo of Golden for her birthday last month. She read it quickly, then loaned it to me when she went to Guatemala on her memoir writer’s retreat earlier this month. I’d never heard of the book, but when I looked it up, I was interested… Read more
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An Existential Monologue
Reading Time: 5 minutesI wanted to call this post An Existential Soliloquy which I think sounds interesting, though a bit pretentious. But as I so often do when I write this blog, I looked up the word soliloquy to make sure I am using it correctly, lest someone who cares about that sort of thing… Read more
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A Holding Pattern
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast week’s post generated an outpouring of support and response that completely overwhelmed me and Randy. So, first and foremost, thank you all from the bottom of our hearts. It was a good week, with a lot happening with Randy’s medical support team. He met with a local oncologist on Wednesday. We… Read more