Category: Reminiscing
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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
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It’s Time to Indulge!
Reading Time: 4 minutes We spend most of our lives doing what we should do whether it’s what we want to do or not. In 1998 I had an epiphany when, at a corporate retreat for a company on which I was senior executive staff, a workshop facilitator asked the question…”whose life are you living?”… Read more
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Summer of Love (Redux)
Reading Time: 4 minutes Usually my Friday post is a short…but today is the 54th anniversary of the day Randy and I met so I’m rerunning the blog post about that. Excuse the fact that this is longer than my normal Friday post. ********************* I see references to “Summer of Love” all over the internet… Read more
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Home
Reading Time: 4 minutes If I asked you where home is for you, what would you say? In September, Randy and I are headed to Gatlinburg, Tennessee where, with 2 of his sisters and 1 of his brothers and their spouses, we rented a house. Gatlinburg is sort of centrally located between Missouri, Wisconsin, North… Read more
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Still the Land of the Free
Reading Time: 5 minutes Today 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… Read more
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The Remorse of Digital Photos
Reading Time: 4 minutes Remorse, 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… Read more
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Broads in Space
Reading Time: 4 minutes This is the tale of three women who met in the early 1980s while stationed in a Combat Logistics Support Squadron at McClellan Air Force Base in Sacramento, California. All were members of the United States Air Force, each was married to a male member of the United States military, and… Read more
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It’s Not National BBQ Day
Reading Time: 4 minutes In 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… Read more
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A (Short) Story of Inflation
Reading Time: 2 minutes Inflation 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… Read more
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I Broke My Foot Off
Reading Time: 4 minutes It was January 1993 (I think). Twenty years after I’d graduated from junior college, I finally collected enough classes to qualify for a bachelor’s degree. Photo by Bruce Christianson on Unsplash That evening I took my very last final exam. We were living in the Sierra Nevada foothills in Folsom, CA… Read more