Category: Musings
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The Power of Snail Mail
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe bought our house here in Florida from The Sand Dollar Home Team. We are invited to 2 fun social events a year, usually a wine and beer tasting and an ice cream social. They sent me a beautiful orchid in a gorgeous piece of hand and locally made pottery after my… Read more
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Vive ut Vivas!
Reading Time: 5 minutesI have no clue how or why I ran across the phrase Vive ut Vivas, yet here it is. And it’s my new motto. With the cancer and mastectomy behind me, I look forward to the rest of my life. Translated literally from Latin, it means live to live or live so… Read more
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Frisson!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI am willing to bet the farm that each and every one of us has experienced frisson. Very few know what it is though. Aren’t you glad you read this blog? You’re about to get a little education with which you can impress and amaze people, whether you know them or… Read more
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Look, Ma! No Bra!
Reading Time: 5 minutesI was born in 1954 so was an impressionable 14-year-old when, as a symbol of women’s liberation, a “bra burning” protest took place during the 1968 Miss America pageant in Atlantic City. There’s no evidence there were any bras actually burned, but women of all shapes, sizes, ethnicity, and (presumably) religions, did… Read more
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Sneaky Fridays and Blood Pressure
Reading Time: 2 minutesBoy am I out of blog writing practice. I rolled out of bed this morning about 8:30 after an excellent night’s sleep and began preparing to go for a walk. Randy came in and said, “It’s Friday, isn’t it? We both need to put up a blog post.” Damn! I wondered what… Read more
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My Breasts Are Trying to Kill Me
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn February I had my annual mammogram. When I was done, the technician came in and said the radiologist who had looked at my films said everything looked fine and they’d see me next year. Randy’s sister, Kristine, was visiting and accompanied me to the Breast Center in Venice so we picked… Read more
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Crappy Service
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHave you ever noticed that service in a restaurant is really lousy when the restaurant isn’t very busy? Randy and I think this is almost universally true. It’s interesting to us because it’s counterintuitive. You’d think that when servers aren’t busy they’d give you more, not less, of their attention. But… Read more
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Grandkids Rule…
Reading Time: 5 minutesNow here’s a topic we don’t talk about much in this blog. Randy and I don’t have kids, so it follows, logically, that we’re completely devoid of and inexperienced with grandkids. My mom once had a T-shirt that said, “If I’d known grandkids were so much fun, I would have had them… Read more
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A Swelling of Pride
Reading Time: 2 minutesLee Greenwood’s iconic song Proud to Be an America always brings a lump to my throat, especially this version, linked here. Even watching it again now raised goose bumps on my arms. As a citizen and veteran of what is still the greatest country on earth, there hasn’t been, for the last… Read more
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It’s a REALLY Small World, After All!
Reading Time: 5 minutesRandy and I drove down to Naples last Friday to attend the weekly Happy Hour at my sister Lisa’s condo complex. There are only 82 units, about half are full-time residents, but it’s “season” in Florida so Happy Hour included a lot of snowbirds. We wouldn’t normally drive down to Naples for… Read more