Category: Musings
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Crappy Service
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHave you ever noticed that service in a restaurant is really lousy when the restaurant isn’t very busy? Randy and I think this is almost universally true. It’s interesting to us because it’s counterintuitive. You’d think that when servers aren’t busy they’d give you more, not less, of their attention. But… Read more
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Grandkids Rule…
Reading Time: 5 minutesNow here’s a topic we don’t talk about much in this blog. Randy and I don’t have kids, so it follows, logically, that we’re completely devoid of and inexperienced with grandkids. My mom once had a T-shirt that said, “If I’d known grandkids were so much fun, I would have had them… Read more
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A Swelling of Pride
Reading Time: 2 minutesLee Greenwood’s iconic song Proud to Be an America always brings a lump to my throat, especially this version, linked here. Even watching it again now raised goose bumps on my arms. As a citizen and veteran of what is still the greatest country on earth, there hasn’t been, for the last… Read more
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It’s a REALLY Small World, After All!
Reading Time: 5 minutesRandy and I drove down to Naples last Friday to attend the weekly Happy Hour at my sister Lisa’s condo complex. There are only 82 units, about half are full-time residents, but it’s “season” in Florida so Happy Hour included a lot of snowbirds. We wouldn’t normally drive down to Naples for… Read more
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A Year From Now
Reading Time: 5 minutesI had lunch last week with my Airplane Girls. As is true with any group of friends, each of us is going through something in our lives that upends the status quo and forces change that we aren’t particularly comfortable with. One woman just passed the year anniversary of losing her beloved… Read more
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It’s Tax Season
Reading Time: 4 minutesI spent the last 20 years of my working life keeping track of other people’s money. In fact, I’m still doing that as I have two micro-jobs, one doing the sales tax accounting for a single retail home décor store back in Missouri, and another keeping up with the bookkeeping for a… Read more
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Who Needs the F-Word?
Reading Time: 5 minutesI just finished one of the best books I’ve ever read, and one of the worst books I’ve ever read. They had several things in common. They were both written by female authors in their early forties. The writing was well done, clever, and moved the reader through the story well. In… Read more
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Love
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLove is in the air. All You Need is Love God is love. Love makes the world go round. How sweet it is to be loved by you. Live, love, laugh. Have I told you lately that I love you? With a love like that, you know you should be glad.… Read more
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It’s Just a Game
Reading Time: 5 minutesOr is it? The Superbowl has become an American cultural phenomenon renowned for its seemingly endless hype, stratospheric betting ($1.39 BILLION in 2025), innovative and memorable television commercials, notorious half-time entertainment, and world-wide audience. It’s the championship game of America’s National Football League and is the most-watched, single-day sporting event in the… Read more
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Rely on Yourself
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve had a bit of a battle this week trying to get my blood pressure prescriptions coordinated between my doctor’s office and my mail-order (MO) pharmacy. Several weeks ago my doctor renewed a script for one of my meds. Then I got a text from the MO pharmacy saying they were out… Read more