Category: Musings
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Peace Be With You
Reading Time: 4 minutes Here in Southwest Florida it’s getting to be that time of the year when the temperature drops about 10 degrees to perfect, and there’s a light breeze blowing off the gulf. The water is still warm enough to swim without artificial heat and it’s just purely amazing to be outside most… Read more
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Alexa, The Snitch
Reading Time: < 1 minute When we closed on our house in July 2021, our realtor gifted us with a Ring doorbell and an Amazon Echo Show 5. The Ring doorbell lives, camera facing down, in a drawer except when we’re away from home where we set it up to watch both the front door… Read more
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What Matters Most (Redux)
Reading Time: 4 minutes As I sat down last week to write my Friday short post, I’d just been profoundly affected by a couple of paragraphs I read in a novel I had a hard time putting down. Tears began leaking and my throat closed up a little as I read them again and again.… Read more
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My Guilty Pleasure
Reading Time: 2 minutes I often tell people I only turn on the TV in our house for Packer games. That’s been true for the whole two years and a couple of months we’ve lived here. I can no longer say that. Since it premiered in June 2005, I’ve claimed Dancing With the Stars as… Read more
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Life is Damn Good
Reading Time: 2 minutes Randy and I arrived home today after being on the road for one day shy of 3 weeks. You know from my previous posts that we have, in the past, really loved road tripping. Yesterday, after a particularly brutal driving segment of the trip (Franklin, TN to Lake City, FL) Randy… Read more
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Crazy Coincidences Leading to Utopia
Reading Time: 4 minutes My brother Denny called me a few days before we arrived at my mom’s. He said he met a guy in Manitowoc who had a 77-foot (end to end) sailboat moored in front of the Cobia Submarine Maritime Museum on the river. He was walking along the riverfront one day the… Read more
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Sometimes You Just Got Nothin’
Reading Time: < 1 minute We’re at my mom’s in Manitowoc again, and Friday morning rolled around much faster than I imagined this week. I’ve got several blog post ideas rolling around in my head, but none seemed to work for the short post this week. Usually I work under pressure, but this morning I… Read more
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I Just Can’t Do It
Reading Time: 2 minutes You know how it is when you neglect picking up little things around the house? You stop seeing them, these little things lying around that aren’t in their place because you left them in the last place you used them? One day you wake up and with new eyes see your… Read more
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Toxic Positivity. Huh??
Reading Time: 4 minutes In my post two weeks ago, I recommended you read Dr Gladys McGarey’s book, The Well-Lived Life. I’m doing my second read through this week, picking up all kinds of things this time that I missed on the first go-round. After Hurricane Ian I put up this sign in our yard.… Read more
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A Very Good Day
Reading Time: < 1 minute Today I had the very last medical appointment pertaining to the cancer diagnosis I got in January. It was a second opinion with a medical oncologist. I was astounded and gratified that he “felt extremely comfortable” with the decision I’d made to decide not to have any radiation or aromatase… Read more