Category: Musings
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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
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What’s Real? An AI Future
Reading Time: 5 minutesLynn sent me a Facebook Reel a few days ago. It’s linked here. She sent it to me via Messenger, commenting “Very Strange. Amazing imagination.” Indeed, it is. The visuals are stunning and interesting. The song is haunting and the mental pictures the words evoke are excellent, though the story of Betrayal… Read more
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Best Laugh All Week
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI was talking to Lynn on our weekly video chat yesterday. She was unpacking a box of things she ordered from Amazon. She pulled out a new bag of Ancient Sea Salt and I started to laugh. You gotta love the big food industry in America these days. Ancient sea salt… Read more
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House in Disarray…Again
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe moved to Florida in July 2021. It’s a long story, but we bought this house before we’d ever seen it in person. That’s just the way the real estate market was at that time. Randy told that story here in his blog. We counted ourselves lucky to even have “scored” a… Read more
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Veterans Day
Reading Time: 5 minutesToday is Veterans Day, observed this year, as it is every year, on November 11. It’s in vogue in 2025 to thank veterans for their service to our country. It hasn’t always been that way. In my lifetime, the political and cultural mood has been much uglier than it is today. I… Read more
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Too Peopley
Reading Time: 5 minutesHas anyone ever asked you whether you’re an introvert or an extrovert? It’s a fairly common question, especially during job interviews during our working years. As a former human resources development manager, I know the value of the answer to this question when hiring an employee. But Aristotle said, “knowing yourself is… Read more