Category: Musings
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Uniquely Portable Magic
Reading Time: 4 minutesI love books. I love reading. I read for pleasure, to gain knowledge, to learn history, for other perspectives, to increase my imagination, to help prevent cognitive decline. Reading has significantly expanded my vocabulary and improved my writing skill. Reading has enriched my life and taken me, physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally,… Read more
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Independence Day Musings
Reading Time: 4 minutesToday, as I write this, it’s the 4th of July. America celebrates. Really celebrates. I honestly don’t know or haven’t yet heard of anyone, regardless of political persuasion, race, color, religion, sex, gender, education level, social media status, occupation, or any of the hundred other things that divide us in this country… Read more
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Friendship is an Action Word
Reading Time: 4 minutesI’m just full of old, tried (or maybe tired) and true sayings today. In addition to “Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver and the other gold” there’s “No man (woman) is an island.” And the great 60s classic….”I get by with a little help from my friends.” And… Read more
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The Cure for Anything
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy youngest sister Lisa is visiting. She lives in Naples and because she blazed the way moving to Florida 3 years ago, we now live here too. She was in Wisconsin and other parts north when we were earlier this month. We agreed, coming back to Florida after a mainly cool,… Read more
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Beam Me Over, Scotty
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI can’t wait for the reality of teleportation. The drive home from Wisconsin was brutal. Twenty-four hours in the car, outside temperatures sometimes upwards of 100 degrees, and fuel prices at break-the-bank levels. There’s no place like home. But in the future, to get back and forth between home and the… Read more
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Pop Culture Illiterate
Reading Time: 4 minutesRandy and I live in a little bubble of our own making. At home we have a TV, but use it almost exclusively as a giant computer monitor. The last time we turned it on as a TV was to check the score of the Super Bowl. Three or four years ago… Read more
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Marriage Musings
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe made the road trip to Wisconsin, as I mentioned, to attend two family weddings. The first one is now behind us. It was a beautiful, contemporary event. The groom is a favorite nephew of ours, extraordinarily intelligent, a caring, witty fellow who’s got his head screwed on as straight as any… Read more
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Summer of Love
Reading Time: 4 minutesI see references to “Summer of Love” all over the internet these days. No clue why. One reference suggested the Summer of Love happened the year of Woodstock, 1969. That made sense, but a quick internet search proved that information to be untrue. Too bad, because 1969 was the summer I met… Read more
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Learning to Clean Again
Reading Time: 4 minutesHate. It’s such an ugly word, isn’t it? With nasty connotations. The word is thrown around carelessly regarding lots of situations that certainly don’t call for the viciousness in which it’s used. If you know me well, you know I’m careful about using the word hate. There are few things that warrant… Read more
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Time, Again
Reading Time: 4 minutesSince I’ve thought so much about time lately, and I seem to have so much of it that I don’t feel too guilty wasting it, I’m going to stick with that subject a while longer. Time seems to speed up as we get older, doesn’t it? Of course time, clock time that… Read more