Category: Musings
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The Remorse of Digital Photos
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
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Those Try-On Apps
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
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In Praise of Avocados
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
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It’s Not National BBQ Day
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
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Learning to Rain Dance
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
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Rocket Woman
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
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Bad Movies and Other Distractions
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
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A (Short) Story of Inflation
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
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Harper, the Baby Seal…Robot
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have a caring, faithful, selfless friend named Carla who is a volunteer for a non-profit hospice program. Carla’s been working with hospice for years, something I don’t think I could ever do. She is an amazing woman whom I’ve been privileged to call friend for close to 45 years now. I… Read more
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The Light at the End of the Tunnel
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou can put your whole life on hold waiting to emerge into the light at the end of the tunnel. What I mean is that there’s always something that’s going to happen in the future that you think is the end of whatever you’re going through right now. And you’re always… Read more