Category: Musings
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Groundcover or Weeds
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen my best friend and sister-in-law Lynn comes down for her snowbird stint in Florida each winter she works long and hard on cleaning up our landscaping. The first year we moved into the house it was a huge job. This year it was more cleaning up and trimming from the damage… Read more
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Swimming Pigs
Reading Time: < 1 minuteImagine (if you can) that one of your dream vacations is to visit the Bahamas, mainly to have the Swimming Pigs experience. OK, neither can I imagine that. But I did find a travel blogger who said that. See for yourself here. Our cruise included a choice to book a shore… Read more
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Unplugged
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere’s an old debate about whether all the technology we use daily makes our lives easier or harder, whether it simplifies or complicates our existence. I can argue the issue either way. The truth is, though, I’m tired of how enslaved to technology I’ve become. That’s not to say that I’m brave… Read more
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What Matters Most
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere’s a 2007 film starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman called Bucket List. I’d recommend seeing it for a couple different reasons. It’s laugh-out-loud funny, jerks a few tears, and in the end is plenty thought provoking. Not long after I originally saw it, I was diagnosed (in January 2008) with a… Read more
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Overcoming Life’s Flotsam & Jetsam
Reading Time: 4 minutesI mentioned in my Shorts post on Friday how much I like New Year’s Day. It’s so full of possibilities. To be fair, every day can be full of possibilities. But on any given day we’re usually just moseying along existing from waking to sleeping. As we go through the motions of… Read more
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The Promise of a New Year
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy absolutely favorite holiday, hands down, is New Year’s Day. Every year when I flip the calendar to January, after the Thanksgiving to Christmas holiday season is behind us, I get super excited about new beginnings. I need to remind myself that no matter what day the calendar proclaims, every morning… Read more
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Sugar Coma
Reading Time: 4 minutesHere it is a couple of days after Christmas and I am seriously craving something green to eat. I don’t mean green as in donuts or cookies with green colored frosting. I mean green as in cucumbers or salad or something (anything) that will give me a dose of vitamins and nutrients.… Read more
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Gray Pride
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBelongingness is right smack in the middle of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs…above food, clothing, shelter and safety, but below esteem and self-actualization. Most people spend their whole life joining groups and organizations that share their interests and help them feel good about themselves. Sometimes the organizations even help them “leave a… Read more
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Legitimate, Honest-to-God Tragedy
Reading Time: 4 minutesRegular visitors to my blog know I’m a voracious reader. Many also know I’m a history buff. My interest in history intensified over the last 15 years as I’ve learned to connect what’s happened in the past to current events. It puts so much in context and explains the seemingly unexplainable. I’m… Read more
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Good Old-Fashioned Paper Books
Reading Time: < 1 minuteXfinity (Comcast) is the major cable service in the area. In many places, 2+ weeks after Hurricane Ian, many people still don’t have cable service. Facebook and Next Door are flooded with people screaming about this. There are reports of residents chasing Xfinity linemen with baseball bats. Randy and I drove… Read more