Category: Musings
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Crazy Coincidences Leading to Utopia
Reading Time: 4 minutesMy brother Denny called me a few days before we arrived at my mom’s. He said he met a guy in Manitowoc who had a 77-foot (end to end) sailboat moored in front of the Cobia Submarine Maritime Museum on the river. He was walking along the riverfront one day the week… Read more
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Sometimes You Just Got Nothin’
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’re at my mom’s in Manitowoc again, and Friday morning rolled around much faster than I imagined this week. I’ve got several blog post ideas rolling around in my head, but none seemed to work for the short post this week. Usually I work under pressure, but this morning I just… Read more
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I Just Can’t Do It
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou know how it is when you neglect picking up little things around the house? You stop seeing them, these little things lying around that aren’t in their place because you left them in the last place you used them? One day you wake up and with new eyes see your home… Read more
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Toxic Positivity. Huh??
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn my post two weeks ago, I recommended you read Dr Gladys McGarey’s book, The Well-Lived Life. I’m doing my second read through this week, picking up all kinds of things this time that I missed on the first go-round. After Hurricane Ian I put up this sign in our yard. One… Read more
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A Very Good Day
Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday I had the very last medical appointment pertaining to the cancer diagnosis I got in January. It was a second opinion with a medical oncologist. I was astounded and gratified that he “felt extremely comfortable” with the decision I’d made to decide not to have any radiation or aromatase inhibitor… Read more
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The Well-Lived Life
Reading Time: 4 minutesRight here, right now, I’m going to give you the best mental (and maybe physical) health advice you’ll ever receive. It is this: Get this book, read it cover to cover. * Read it again. Think about it, and what Dr Gladys says in it, whenever you have a bit of a… Read more
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How Hot Is It?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s so hot the chickens are laying hard boiled eggs. It’s so hot that hot water now comes out of both taps. It’s so hot the ocean only has heat waves. It’s seriously warm in Florida. Duh…..you say. I know. But honestly, I don’t remember this kind of heat the first… Read more
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Some of My Best Friends Aren’t Real
Reading Time: 4 minutesBecause Randy and I have moved so many times over the years, mainly compliments of the US Air Force, we’ve made lots and lots (and lots) of friends. Many of them live all over the country and one of our greatest joys is that we have the means to visit and reconnect… Read more
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5 Frogs on a Log
Reading Time: 2 minutesFive frogs are sitting on a log. Four decide to jump off. How many are left? A few years ago I conducted the great Malaise Experiment. The idea was to go 21 days (in a row!) making good choices about what I ate, how and how much I moved, and choosing activities… Read more
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My Happy Place
Reading Time: 4 minutesYou all know I love the beach. The colors, the sun, the warmth, the water, the sand, the sounds, the possibilities of adventure, I love everything about the beach. But I learned something more about myself this week. A week ago today I went to the plastic surgeon and, after 12 weeks… Read more