Category: Musings
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Still the Land of the Free
Reading Time: 5 minutes Today is the 4th of July, 2023. I’m rerunning the post I wrote a year ago. In my opinion, this is the more important day of the year for Americans. And what I wrote last year is worth repeating. I believe July 4th is even more important than religious holidays because… Read more
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Living Fearlessly
Reading Time: 2 minutes I feel completely blessed that somewhere along the way, I’ve learned to not live my life in fear. In fact, even facing a life threatening cancer diagnosis hasn’t triggered any fear and anxiety in me. Understanding and embracing that birth is a death sentence helps give me the freedom to simply… Read more
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The Remorse of Digital Photos
Reading Time: 4 minutes Remorse, as I’m using it here, means deep regret for a wrong committed. The wrong here is purely unintentional, and probably universally world-wide these days, but I am certain that culturally, we may regret thinking that digital photos will replace printed photos for documenting family history. When my friend Cindy was… Read more
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Those Try-On Apps
Reading Time: < 1 minute My sister Lisa turned me on to Zenni Optical. You upload your eyeglass prescription, then go to their website where you take a picture of yourself according to their directions. Their app then allows you to see any pair of glasses they sell on your face. I thought it was… Read more
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In Praise of Avocados
Reading Time: < 1 minute Years ago, when people asked me if I liked a certain food, like zucchini or liver, I would tell them I didn’t eat anything with the last 6 letters of the alphabet in its name. I was mostly not joking. Somewhere along the line, in the not too distant past,… Read more
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It’s Not National BBQ Day
Reading Time: 4 minutes In the truest spirit of the “holiday”, there’s nothing happy about Memorial Day. In fact, Memorial Day, observed yesterday, is, and should be, the most somber “holiday” of the year. The dictionary definition of holiday is “a day of festivity, or recreation when no work is done.” But what we now… Read more
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Learning to Rain Dance
Reading Time: < 1 minute When we moved to Florida we were told there are actually 2 seasons here, the dry season and the wet season. That truth, and its consequences, aren’t really apparent until you’ve experienced a couple of years of those seasons. Last rainy season brought Hurricane Ian. We were sick of the… Read more
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Rocket Woman
Reading Time: 4 minutes When Elton John and his lyricist partner Bernie Taupin wrote the song Rocket Man, Taupin was inspired by a 1951 collection of Ray Bradbury short sci-fi stories. The stories depicted the complex relationship between technology and psychology, and one story, in particular, was about an astronaut’s love of the stars. The… Read more
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Bad Movies and Other Distractions
Reading Time: 4 minutes I like Hallmark movies. A lot. I like to have them playing on my tablet while I’m putting a puzzle together out on the lanai. Neither one of those activities take too much brain power so I can easily do both at once. It’s a great two-fer activity…exercising my mind and… Read more
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A (Short) Story of Inflation
Reading Time: 2 minutes Inflation silently and subversively steals our money. Many of the problems and hardships we’re having with the economy right now are because of inflation. This short post isn’t to explain how or why, but just give you a real-world Ah-ha! moment of how it works. Simple example: A couple of years… Read more