Category: Musings
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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
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Spending Time
Reading Time: 4 minutesLast week I wrote about the idea that there is no time, yet here I am posting about spending it. Let’s clarify a couple of things before I sound like a contradictory kook. Last week’s post, where I talked about a book claiming there is no time, was about existing in the… Read more
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Dressing Up in Florida
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy sister, Lisa, and I spent Saturday going to FleaMasters and then had lunch on Ft Meyers beach. I wore tennies to walk around the flea market, but wanted to “dress up” a little for lunch. In Florida, all I needed for that transformation was to change tennies to flip flops. Read more
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There IS a Secret to Happiness
Reading Time: 4 minutesI am a voracious and exceedingly varied reader. Some of the things I read are pretty heavy, and I can only comprehend what I’m reading in small doses. One book I recently finished, The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle, was one of THOSE books. The book is subtitled, A Guide to… Read more
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An End….and a Beginning
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday is my 68th birthday. Thank you, in advance, for all the birthday (and belated birthday) wishes that statement will generate. But birthday wishes are not my purpose here. What I really want to do is tell the story of why I’m starting this blog. The day of a birthday marks the… Read more
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Ya Gotta Have a Purpose
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs much as I’d love to be able to lay on the beach every day, that’s not practical when designing life after retirement. I’ve always wanted to write. Not fiction. I’m not very good at making up stories. But it seems I have a bit of talent for telling real stories, in… Read more