Category: Musings
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Post Holiday Doldrums
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe tree is down, the cheery colorful lights are dark, the Christmas treats are gone, and all the special meals have been cooked and eaten. Some people suffer from a feeling of let down or even depression when the holidays are over. We’re just a week past the typically high energy holiday… Read more
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The New Computer Blues
Reading Time: 2 minutesSeveral months ago I got a new laptop. My old laptop worked fine but it has Windows 10 on it. Microsoft no longer supports Windows 10 and seems to have slowed down the performance so much that it was taking me far too long to do what needed to be done. The… Read more
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Don’t Look Back!
Reading Time: 4 minutesI know it’s Christmas Eve. I know readers might expect me to write something Christmasy. But the truth of the matter is that I’m just not feeling it. And when I’m not feeling it, nothing worth reading flows through my fingers to the keyboard. Just so no one thinks I’m a complete… Read more
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Fear Porn
Reading Time: 5 minutesLet me say this up front. None of us get out of here alive. Truly understanding this helps, a lot, to learn not to react to the fear porn that is coming at us non-stop. You might be wondering what in the world I’m talking about. Fear porn is media content (mainstream… Read more
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Guilty. By Innuendo. On Facebook.
Reading Time: 5 minutesI stumbled on a Facebook post a few days ago that stated that a man I know had allegedly embezzled $100,000 from a business he managed. This is a small town and the comments on the post were mostly ugly, having jumped to the conclusion that he was, in fact, guilty, and… Read more
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Suddenly, It’s the Holidays!
Reading Time: 5 minutesI blinked. Suddenly, we’re less than a month from the END of 2024. We’ve passed Thanksgiving and are speeding toward Christmas. And then, just a few days later, it’ll be the year 2025. 2025! It sounds like a pop song from my high school years that asked whether man will still be… Read more
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The Jetsons Still Make Me Smile
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt’s Thanksgiving Week…probably my favorite holiday of the whole year. Gratitude and a thankful attitude make life rich. And not just one day, or one week, a year. That’s why I try to have an attitude of gratitude every day of my life. My Thanksgiving post last year was titled Simply Thankful.… Read more
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Become Your Own Problem
Reading Time: 5 minutesBefore I leave the subject of the book 20,000 Days and Counting, there’s one more point that hit me square between the eyes. The author, Robert D Smith, contends, in Chapter 10, that a simple change in perspective about problems in your life works magic. Smith tells the story in this… Read more
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The Cough That Won’t End
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt finally got me. I haven’t been sick for almost 4 years. Last year, returning from the Panama Canal cruise, I sneezed and coughed for a few days, but it never took hold. But I’ve been hacking for almost 2 weeks now and I can’t seem to make any progress on… Read more
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Eat Dessert First
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast week I wrote about a book called 20,000 and Counting that affected me profoundly and gave me a good kick in the pants. Since writing the post, I read the book twice more. I want the concepts he talked about in it to become as natural to me as breathing. I’ve… Read more