Category: Reminiscing
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Reassembling My Dad
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy 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 puzzle… Read more
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More Manitowoc
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor 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 fill… Read more
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Shiny, Prickly, Christmas Memories
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’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, no… Read more
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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