Month: August 2026
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Life Re-imagined
Reading Time: 6 minutesWe don’t always get to choose what happens to us, but we do always get to choose how we react to what happens to us. Losing a spouse of 50 years is a hell of a change forced on anyone. It’s been more staggering than I could have ever imagined. Tomorrow will… Read more
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Rest in Peace, Randy
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast Friday we laid Randy’s cremains to rest at Sarasota National Cemetery. The ceremony, with military honors including a three-gun salute, was beautiful, but somber and heart wrenching. Close to 50 people, some of whom were surprises to me, some who traveled a very long way to help lay him to rest,… Read more
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Morning Walks with Randy
Reading Time: 6 minutesI’ve been walking for more than 3 weeks now. It’s been good for me. And for 2 weeks I’ve been going to the community park near my home to walk around the lakes instead of on the blacktop up and down the boring street by my house. The best part is that,… Read more
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Whatever it Takes
Reading Time: 5 minutesHere it is, Tuesday morning. Blog post due today. And I feel completely overwhelmed and fresh out of ideas. I told a friend this week that I started 68andcounting.com to develop the habit of writing regularly, to give me something productive to do with my time in retirement, and to provide a… Read more