Category: Reminiscing
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A Manitowoc Mash-Up
Reading Time: 5 minutesI was reminded, as I visited my mom last week, about all the posts I’ve written over the years about Manitowoc, Wisconsin, the town I grew up in. Here’s a mash-up of some of them from the past few years, with links to the original posts. Each one of the original posts… Read more
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Home, Again
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe post you are about to read is a rerun, written and published more than 3 years ago. Of course Randy is no longer walking the earth, but the sentiments of home are still the same. And the rerun of this post is especially appropriate this morning as I board a flight… Read more
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A True Celebration
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat does it say about a newly minted widow who wants to dance at her husband’s Celebration of Life? Because that was me. I could say I don’t care what people say, but that’s not true. At the end of Randy’s Celebration of Life, the music video, The Great Adventure by Stephen… Read more
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Welcome Home, Veteran Heroes
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn the book I’ve recommended several times on this blog, The Women by Kristin Hannah, there is a scene where the main character, Frankie, an Army Nurse, rotates back to the United States in 1969 after 2 tours in Vietnam. She is wearing her uniform. The Los Angeles airport is filled with… Read more
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A Deluge of Emotion
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe Honor Flight Randy and I were privileged to be selected for took place a week ago today. Since that day I’ve been racking my brain to think of a word to describe how overwhelmingly emotional it was. It is with 100% certainty I tell you I am still not recovered from… Read more
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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