Category: Musings
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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
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Money, Wealth, and Riches
Reading Time: 5 minutesI ran across something I shared, with proper attribution, on Facebook the other day. I don’t know who originally wrote the post, but it was thoughtful, wise, and, in my opinion, correct. You can read the full post here. Here are the parts that are relevant to my post today. Between age… Read more
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Garage Sales
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI have a hate/hate relationship with garage sales. I hate going to them and I hate having them. Yet, in nearly 50 years of marriage, and being raised by my mom, I have learned that garage sales are a necessary evil of modern life. This morning I’m sitting at my neighbor’s… Read more
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Peace Be With You
Reading Time: 4 minutesHere 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 of… Read more
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Alexa, The Snitch
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen 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 and… Read more
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What Matters Most (Redux)
Reading Time: 4 minutesAs 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. I… Read more
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My Guilty Pleasure
Reading Time: 2 minutesI 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 my… Read more
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Life is Damn Good
Reading Time: 2 minutesRandy 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 said… Read more