Category: Musings
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Child/Parent Role Reversal
Reading Time: 5 minutesRandy 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 parents… Read more
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My Favorite IF Things
Reading Time: 5 minutesI 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 were… Read more
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Intermittent Fasting (IF)
Reading Time: 5 minutesIf 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 that… Read more
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Is RVing Back?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOK, 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 and… Read more
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Look and Feel Fabulous in ‘24
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe 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 that… Read more
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Snow! Why We Moved to Florida
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy 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 view.… Read more
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The Eating Season
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen Christmas Day is Monday, and you’ve been traveling all week, Tuesday morning and the realization you need a new post to keep up with your self-imposed schedule creeps up on you awfully fast. We were putting some of the final touches on Christmas dinner (prime rib, twice baked potatoes, pop-overs, and… Read more
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Our Crazy Upside Down World
Reading Time: 2 minutesRandy 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 cancelled… Read more
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A Unique Thanksgiving Dinner
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere’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 cost,… Read more
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Simply Thankful
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast 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 my… Read more