Category: Entertainment
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Dance Like Nobody is Watching
Reading Time: 2 minutes How many of us are self-conscious when dancing? It’s one thing to get out on the dance floor and shuffle our feet, move our hips a little, sway to the beat, and twist and turn in place. But it’s quite another to get out there, pull out all the stops, get… Read more
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Retire Like a Millionaire
Reading Time: 5 minutes Last weekend my sister Lisa and I crashed the Lifestyle Visit my brother Denny and his wife Marlene made to The Villages in central Florida. Lisa and I have both lived in Florida for a while now and have, of course, heard about The Villages. Neither of us knew much about… Read more
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Winners and the Games They Play
Reading Time: 5 minutes I come from a family of game players. As a child some of my best memories are those of the fun times we spent playing board games and cards. On summer vacation every year we went to a cottage on a lake in Northern Wisconsin. We spent long hours swimming and… Read more
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My Guilty Pleasure
Reading Time: 2 minutes I often tell people I only turn on the TV in our house for Packer games. That’s been true for the whole two years and a couple of months we’ve lived here. I can no longer say that. Since it premiered in June 2005, I’ve claimed Dancing With the Stars as… Read more
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I Love It When A Plan Comes Together
Reading Time: 4 minutes Remember the old A-Team television show? Hannibal’s line at the end of each show was “I love it when a plan comes together.” I really enjoyed The A-Team for several reasons. First, way back when we lived in Sacramento we visited a Los Angeles theme park where there was an A-Team… Read more
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I Just Can’t Do It
Reading Time: 2 minutes You know how it is when you neglect picking up little things around the house? You stop seeing them, these little things lying around that aren’t in their place because you left them in the last place you used them? One day you wake up and with new eyes see your… Read more
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Yes, I’m Ready for Some Football
Reading Time: < 1 minute Last August I wrote a post titled Football, the Packers and a 955-Year Waiting List. You can read it by clicking on the link here. I love that the seasons don’t change much in Florida, but September is notable year in and year out because it’s the start of the… Read more
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Aqua Walking
Reading Time: 2 minutes nally, FINALLY, I found a way to exercise that I absolutely love. Since my cancer diagnosis early this year, I’m starting to really understand that exercise, which I’ve avoided like the plague most of my life, is vitally important in preventing a recurrence. As is losing weight and eating right, all… Read more
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It’s Time to Indulge!
Reading Time: 4 minutes We spend most of our lives doing what we should do whether it’s what we want to do or not. In 1998 I had an epiphany when, at a corporate retreat for a company on which I was senior executive staff, a workshop facilitator asked the question…”whose life are you living?”… Read more
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Some of My Best Friends Aren’t Real
Reading Time: 4 minutes Because Randy and I have moved so many times over the years, mainly compliments of the US Air Force, we’ve made lots and lots (and lots) of friends. Many of them live all over the country and one of our greatest joys is that we have the means to visit and… Read more