Category: Reminiscing
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Simply Thankful
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast 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 my… Read more
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Black-Eyed Susans
Reading Time: 2 minutesI 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 then.… Read more
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Not Again!
Reading Time: 4 minutesOh, 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 focus… Read more
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It’s Time to Indulge!
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe 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?” That… Read more
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Summer of Love (Redux)
Reading Time: 4 minutesUsually 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 these… Read more
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Home
Reading Time: 4 minutesIf 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 Carolina,… Read more
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Still the Land of the Free
Reading Time: 5 minutesToday 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 a… Read more
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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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Broads in Space
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis 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 all… 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