True Wealth is Control Over Your Own Time

Category: Musings

  • Still the Land of the Free

    Still the Land of the Free
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    Reading Time: 5 minutesToday 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 a… Read more

  • Living Fearlessly

    Living Fearlessly
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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI 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 live… Read more

  • The Remorse of Digital Photos

    The Remorse of Digital Photos
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    Reading Time: 4 minutesRemorse, 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 here… Read more

  • Those Try-On Apps

    Those Try-On Apps
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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy 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 truly… Read more

  • In Praise of Avocados

    In Praise of Avocados
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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYears 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, we… Read more

  • It’s Not National BBQ Day

    It’s Not National BBQ Day
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    Reading Time: 4 minutesIn 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 know… Read more

  • Learning to Rain Dance

    Learning to Rain Dance
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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen 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 rain… Read more

  • Rocket Woman

    Rocket Woman
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    Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen 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 man… Read more

  • Bad Movies and Other Distractions

    Bad Movies and Other Distractions
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    Reading Time: 4 minutesI 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 indulging… Read more

  • A (Short) Story of Inflation

    A (Short) Story of Inflation
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    Reading Time: 2 minutesInflation 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 ago… Read more