Category: Musings
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The Guest Test
Reading Time: 5 minutes When you live in Southwest Florida, weather wise, winter is the most magnificent time of the year. Someone once told us that there ARE two seasons in Florida, wet season and dry season. I contend that dry season could also be called guest season because dry season in Florida coincides with… Read more
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Child/Parent Role Reversal
Reading Time: 5 minutes Randy and I were lucky to have parents married to each other for their entire adult lives. Three of the four of them are now gone. Only my mom, who will be 90 in June, remains. We both have good memories of our childhood. We were well taken care of by… Read more
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My Favorite IF Things
Reading Time: 5 minutes I woke up Sunday morning with “Raindrops on roses, and whiskers on kittens” on my mind. I know. Weird. They were the favorite things Julie Andrews sang about in Sound of Music, but it prompted me to think about my favorite things about intermittent fasting (IF). My last two blog posts… Read more
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Intermittent Fasting (IF)
Reading Time: 5 minutes If you missed my post last week, be sure to read it here before you continue with this one. This week’s post is a continuation of it. Fasting is a word that, growing up, had all kinds of religious connotations. It implied piety and penance, spirituality and sacrifice. Few people outside of… Read more
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Is RVing Back?
Reading Time: < 1 minute OK, honestly, I don’t know for a fact that it ever left. But from our observations over the past few years, we surmised that while a lot of folks bought RVs at the beginning of the covid thing, as the thing wore on and many campgrounds closed, RVing became harder… Read more
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Look and Feel Fabulous in ‘24
Reading Time: 4 minutes We had lunch with some friends in Missouri last week. It’s been almost a year since I’d seen her. She walked in and I was struck by how terrific she looked. She’d acknowledged she’d lost weight, but it was more than that. She looked healthier and had a glow about her… Read more
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Snow! Why We Moved to Florida
Reading Time: < 1 minute My days are really messed up. It’s Friday and it crept up on me as surprisingly as Tuesday did this week. I need a reset. I was the last one out of bed this morning. I walked into Lynn’s garden room where everyone else was sitting in recliners admiring this… Read more
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Our Crazy Upside Down World
Reading Time: 2 minutes Randy and I got home from our cruise last week on Thursday, both with head colds. Mine was just barely starting but Randy’s was several days old so I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to get off scot-free. We both had dentist appointments scheduled for the following Monday so I… Read more
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A Unique Thanksgiving Dinner
Reading Time: 2 minutes There’s a first time for everything. It took me and Randy 70 years (give or take) to experience our first American Thanksgiving dinner at a Chinese buffet. Buffet City is our favorite restaurant any other day of the year. We didn’t know how much Thanksgiving (with turkey on the buffet) would… Read more
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Simply Thankful
Reading Time: 5 minutes Last year around Thanksgiving I wrote a short post with a little history of the Thanksgiving holiday. This year, after another brush with breast cancer, I’m feeling very grateful for life itself, and for the abundance and blessing with which we live that life. Let me count just a few of… Read more