Category: Musings
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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
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Me, Myself & I
Reading Time: 5 minutesThree Dog Night had a hit song in 1969 (ironically, the year I met Randy) that claimed, “one is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do.” You’d think that the song was about a relationship break-up or, as one writer put it, “a melancholy meditation on loneliness”. Nope. Harry Nilsson wrote the… Read more
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Alone
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen Randy and I were still watching TV, we got hooked on a reality show for a short time called Alone. In it, so-called survivalists are dropped into some remote wilderness with nothing but a backpack (which contains a video camera, of course). Whoever lasts the longest without calling to be picked… Read more
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There’s Nothing Happy About Memorial Day
Reading Time: 4 minutesI originally posted this on May 30, 2023. Based on some of the conversations I had yesterday with friends and family, and because I’m too emotionally wrung out right now to write, I offer this post, timely then and timely now. *************** In the truest spirit of the “holiday”, there’s nothing happy… Read more
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Feeling the Love
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn day-to-day life in America in 2026, we throw the word love around like a politician throwing candy in a local small-town Memorial Day parade. We’re trained and conditioned to hear and say we love or are loved so often and so easily that it pops out of mouths automatically, sometimes at… Read more
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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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Happy Birthday, Michele, My Friend!
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn general, I don’t like women in groups. So. Much. Drama. For example, you’ll never find me joining a garden club or a women’s civic organization. I haven’t had much luck fitting in with women’s Bible study groups, or even book clubs. I used to joke that I didn’t like women much. … Read more
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The Wonder of Living in Florida
Reading Time: 6 minutesFive years ago today I would never have imagined it, living here in Florida. Five years ago I’d been retired for about 6 months. Randy and I lived in a big house, on 3.5 acres, with a huge garage and shop we built for Randy less than 3 years earlier. It was… Read more