True Wealth is Control Over Your Own Time

Category: Musings

  • Legitimate, Honest-to-God Tragedy

    Legitimate, Honest-to-God Tragedy
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    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

  • Good Old-Fashioned Paper Books

    Good Old-Fashioned Paper Books
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    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

  • Hurricane Ian

    Hurricane Ian
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    Reading Time: 3 minutesFirst, I have to say I am sick of talking about Hurricane Ian. It came, it conquered, it moved on. For a lot of Floridians, their lives forever after will be defined by this catastrophic weather event. I understand. We dealt with something similar in 2003 when we went through a tornado… Read more

  • The Cone of Uncertainty

    The Cone of Uncertainty
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    Reading Time: 4 minutesAs I write this, Randy and I are experiencing the approach of our first hurricane as Florida residents. It’s an interesting experience. My sister in Naples gave me some advice last week. She said when they start talking about a hurricane it takes twice as long to get here as they say… Read more

  • You Don’t Say…

    You Don’t Say…
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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne more thing about listening. Peter Drucker (a prominent management consultant and author) once said, “The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.” The point he was making is that listening involves more than just hearing. Often people omit things that are difficult to say or they don’t… Read more

  • The Magic of Quiet

    The Magic of Quiet
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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe live in a very noisy world, both literally and figuratively. It can make us feel overwhelmed, exhausted by the clatter and activity around us. Lots of people think they can’t live without “noise” around them. But silence can be golden. Consider this: you can’t really hear yourself think without silence.… Read more

  • There’s No Place Like Home

    There’s No Place Like Home
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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe older I get, the more I (unintentionally) resemble people I think of as old foggies. Here we are, not even a week into our 10 day vacation to Missouri and I’m ready to go home. Not that I’m not enjoying seeing everyone, visiting former haunts, and eating like I’m on… Read more

  • A Shrinking World

    A Shrinking World

    Reading Time: 4 minutesYou might recall the post I did several months ago when Randy and I travelled, by car, to Wisconsin and Minnesota for family weddings and visits. It was a good trip, but now that we live in the paradise of sunny southwest Florida, I’m much less excited about leaving home and visiting… Read more

  • No Politics, No Religion

    No Politics, No Religion
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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFinding something to post about twice a week is a challenge, especially when I’ve committed to steer clear of politics and religion, at least in a partisan fashion. As I was thinking about that today, I realized I have been collecting, for years, some of the most profound, interesting, comical, ironic,… Read more

  • What Will People Say?

    What Will People Say?
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    Reading Time: 4 minutesOn your 80th birthday, what do you want people to say about you? And how is that different than what they will say about you? A friend and I are currently having a kind of deep, on-going, existential discussion. She and I are grappling with some of the same issues. In retirement… Read more