Category: Reminiscing
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Age Has Nothing to Do With It
Reading Time: 4 minutes One of my favorite memories of all time is when I was babysitting my great-niece, then age 3 or 4, and she asked me if she could play with my phone. She’s 16 now, so this was about 12 years ago, 2012 or so. At the time I still had a… Read more
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Goodbye, Xenon
Reading Time: 2 minutes This week we said goodbye to a good and faithful servant, our 2014 VW Passat TDI (diesel engine) who we named Xenon. She was the second diesel Passat we owned. In 2012 we bought a new one, silver, from the dealer in Springfield, Missouri. Randy was in love with the diesel… Read more
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Clean Underwear and Ibuprofen
Reading Time: 4 minutes My niece, Emilee, is here for a few days from Wisconsin. Her daughter’s 8th birthday was last week, the same day as Randy’s birthday. She told me last night she’s having a roller skating party for her daughter next weekend. My goodness, that brought back memories, of both the skating, and of… Read more
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Resurrecting Thinking 2 Steps Ahead
Reading Time: 5 minutes Those of you who’ve known me a very (VERY) long time know that for the past 40 years I’ve been talking about a concept I dubbed Thinking 2 Steps Ahead (T2SA). In the early 2000s I even trademarked the phrase and designed workshops that I taught around the area to audiences… Read more
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Reassembling My Dad
Reading Time: < 1 minute My dad died exactly 1 week before Christmas in 2017. I wrote about him in a Father’s Day post a couple of years ago. I miss him a lot. Every year around the anniversary of his permanent departure out of his earthly body, I make a point to reassemble the… Read more
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More Manitowoc
Reading Time: 2 minutes For a city that’s never reached a population of even 35,000 people, Manitowoc sure has developed a world-wide reputation. If you missed my post on Tuesday about the Manitowoc Christmas connection, you can read that here. This week, on our way to Missouri, we checked into a hotel. Randy went to… Read more
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Shiny, Prickly, Christmas Memories
Reading Time: 5 minutes I’m not gonna lie. This year hasn’t seemed much like the Christmas season to me at all. And that’s just fine with me. Two days after Thanksgiving we went on the cruise to the Panama Canal. Surprisingly, when we started there was no Christmas on the ship at all. No decorations,… Read more
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Simply Thankful
Reading Time: 5 minutes Last year around Thanksgiving I wrote a short post with a little history of the Thanksgiving holiday. This year, after another brush with breast cancer, I’m feeling very grateful for life itself, and for the abundance and blessing with which we live that life. Let me count just a few of… Read more
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Black-Eyed Susans
Reading Time: 2 minutes I wrote about the summer Randy and I met in 1969. You’ll find that post here in case you want to read it again, or maybe read it for the first time. One thing I didn’t put in that post was where Randy first kissed me. He was a smoker back… Read more
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Not Again!
Reading Time: 4 minutes Oh, the irony! The day I’m writing this (one day before publication) is the 11-month anniversary of Hurricane Ian. I haven’t written much about that because, well, who wants to rehash the difficulties and trials in life. I have a philosophy that you get a lot more of the things you… Read more