Category: Musings
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A Year From Now
Reading Time: 5 minutesI had lunch last week with my Airplane Girls. As is true with any group of friends, each of us is going through something in our lives that upends the status quo and forces change that we aren’t particularly comfortable with. One woman just passed the year anniversary of losing her beloved… Read more
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It’s Tax Season
Reading Time: 4 minutesI spent the last 20 years of my working life keeping track of other people’s money. In fact, I’m still doing that as I have two micro-jobs, one doing the sales tax accounting for a single retail home décor store back in Missouri, and another keeping up with the bookkeeping for a… Read more
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Who Needs the F-Word?
Reading Time: 5 minutesI just finished one of the best books I’ve ever read, and one of the worst books I’ve ever read. They had several things in common. They were both written by female authors in their early forties. The writing was well done, clever, and moved the reader through the story well. In… Read more
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Love
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLove is in the air. All You Need is Love God is love. Love makes the world go round. How sweet it is to be loved by you. Live, love, laugh. Have I told you lately that I love you? With a love like that, you know you should be glad.… Read more
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It’s Just a Game
Reading Time: 5 minutesOr is it? The Superbowl has become an American cultural phenomenon renowned for its seemingly endless hype, stratospheric betting ($1.39 BILLION in 2025), innovative and memorable television commercials, notorious half-time entertainment, and world-wide audience. It’s the championship game of America’s National Football League and is the most-watched, single-day sporting event in the… Read more
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Rely on Yourself
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve had a bit of a battle this week trying to get my blood pressure prescriptions coordinated between my doctor’s office and my mail-order (MO) pharmacy. Several weeks ago my doctor renewed a script for one of my meds. Then I got a text from the MO pharmacy saying they were out… Read more
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I’m Back!
Reading Time: 4 minutesThree weeks ago, my post explained that I was taking a short break from this blog because my mom and sister were visiting. Their arrival began a fairly long stretch of non-stop guests. They left the afternoon January 23. That evening we hosted, at our home, a dinner for 7 members of… Read more
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Post Holiday Doldrums
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe tree is down, the cheery colorful lights are dark, the Christmas treats are gone, and all the special meals have been cooked and eaten. Some people suffer from a feeling of let down or even depression when the holidays are over. We’re just a week past the typically high energy holiday… Read more
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The New Computer Blues
Reading Time: 2 minutesSeveral months ago I got a new laptop. My old laptop worked fine but it has Windows 10 on it. Microsoft no longer supports Windows 10 and seems to have slowed down the performance so much that it was taking me far too long to do what needed to be done. The… Read more
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Don’t Look Back!
Reading Time: 4 minutesI know it’s Christmas Eve. I know readers might expect me to write something Christmasy. But the truth of the matter is that I’m just not feeling it. And when I’m not feeling it, nothing worth reading flows through my fingers to the keyboard. Just so no one thinks I’m a complete… Read more