Category: Reminiscing
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The One Year Check-In
Reading Time: 4 minutesA year ago I wrote a blog post after having lunch with my Airplane Girls. All of us are interested in politics and we were discussing then the condition of our lives and the state of the country just a few months after Trump took office for his second term. He was… Read more
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So, This is What “The Future” Looks Like
Reading Time: 5 minutesFifty (50) years doesn’t seem like such a long time when you’re looking back on it. But when we were married in 1975, “science fiction” was focused on the years around the turn of the 21st century to the early 2020s. I laugh, because computer technology has come a long, long way… Read more
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A Momentous, Exhausting Year
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’m a little late to the 2025 Year in Review game, but well, it is what it is. First, an explanation about why this is the first post in more than a month. From December 6-13 Randy and I were on the Norwegian Encore celebrating our actual 50th wedding anniversary. A second… Read more
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Oh, How Fast 50 Years Go By!
Reading Time: 4 minutesOn November 24, 2001, my parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. I remember the day well. I was 47 years old and acted as the mistress of ceremonies at a large party we planned for them. My siblings and I spent a lot of time preparing for that celebration. We were proud… Read more
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A Seenager’s Love/Hate Memoir of Telephones
Reading Time: 6 minutesFirst, in case you’ve never heard the term before, a SEENAGER is a mashup of the words senior and teenager. (Just for the record, the proper term for a newly coined mashup word or expression is a neologism. Don’t worry though, I don’t expect you to actually remember that. Just trying to… Read more
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The Main Reason – Round 2
Reading Time: 5 minutesOn Sunday, after a 2-week break from “the road” (because of the weeklong cruise and the weeklong stay at our friends Dan & Cindy’s lakefront home in northeastern Washington State) we loaded up the car again and headed south. We’ve driven more than 5,000 miles on this trip so far and I’m… Read more
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One of the Main Reasons
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen the idea of the Epic 50th Anniversary Grand Adventure Road Trip was born, it really appealed to Randy and me. One of the main reasons for the adventure was to visit forever friends we’ve made over the years in the Air Force, and other people we care about a lot from… Read more
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The End Comes at McClellan AFB, California
Reading Time: 5 minutesWe arrived at McClellan AFB in Sacramento, California in July 1982 and stayed in temporary housing until the new construction house we contracted for was completed. Because we were both in the Air Force, we were able to ship 2 cars back to the states. Buying a Japanese made Honda was dirt… Read more
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Rotating Back to the States
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe were blessed again. After spending 3 years on Guam, 1 before I enlisted and 2 after I came back as a member of the Air Force, we both got orders to McClellan AFB, California. We were happy that the Air Force saw fit to station us together for our next tours… Read more
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TDY to Australia
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn the Air Force, whenever you travel for a short period of time on AF business from where you are permanently stationed, you are said to be sent TDY (Temporary Duty). As an airman administrator, TDYs were few and far between. The only one I had on Guam was to Okinawa for… Read more