Category: Retirement
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It’s True. Dammit!
Reading Time: 5 minutes I have a very sedentary lifestyle. I like it that way. I prefer cerebral rather than physical activities. Always have, always will. I love to read, put together jigsaw puzzles, play cards and board games, and learn things. My activities of choice don’t involve much movement and yes, I am aware… Read more
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The 4th Quarter (of Your Life)
Reading Time: < 1 minute For my birthday last week a friend gave me a copy of a book called No Regrets and its accompanying workbook, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life. No Regrets is a quick read, a parable of sorts, and Randy and I both read it in a couple of hours. We… Read more
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Anniversaries and Other Dates
Reading Time: 4 minutes One of the problems with retirement and aging is that time kind of all runs together. As the years roll by, memories start fraying. I don’t have any problem remembering spectacularly momentous things, but Lordy, I have a problem remembering when things happen. I’m not talking about minor things here. I’m… Read more
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A Perfect Day. Without the Beach.
Reading Time: 4 minutes andy’s sister Kristine and her terrific husband Gary are visiting from North Carolina. We love when they’re here because they enjoy exploring and doing things that we haven’t yet done in Southwest Florida. Their two week-long visit includes enough quiet time and enough adventure to make the two weeks fly by… Read more
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About That Bubble
Reading Time: 4 minutes In my short post explaining why we decided to take our very first cruise, I said people have always been the reason we’ve never taken one before…the anticipation of so many people in so little space. That turned out to be true. Cruising, at least the kind we did, involves lots… Read more
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The Pool is Heated
Reading Time: < 1 minute The rest of the country is parked in the deep freeze. I’ve talked to friends today in places that aren’t Florida and they all have temperatures in the negative number, as in below 0. And then, adding the wind chill, well…. In this location (Loon Lake, WA) the forecast was… Read more
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Living Like Millionaires
Reading Time: 4 minutes We just got back from spending a week at a marvelous beach house on St George Island. It was everything I’d expected a week at the beach would be. But it was more than that. We’d never heard of St George Island when some dear friends invited us to spend some… Read more
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‘Tis the Week Before Christmas….
Reading Time: 4 minutes ‘Tis the week before Christmas When all through the house Not much thought has been given To anything regarding the holiday… Yes, I know it doesn’t rhyme. Which is exactly how Christmas is going to overtake us this year without making much of an impression. In my defense, we’ve been on… Read more
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Life’s Great Joy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Now that we’re free to travel whenever and wherever and however we want (barring financial considerations, of course) I find myself not caring to leave the home we’ve created in the paradise of Florida. With one exception: to visit friends and family that mean a lot of me and Randy. We’ve… Read more
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Life Changing Yarn (Part 2)
Reading Time: 4 minutes That third shawl…. As I was knitting it, as the colors worked up, the greens reminded me of prairie fields, the tans of beach sand, the blues of oceans and skies, and the purple of mountains majesty. And it occurred to me, out of the blue, that I should name the… Read more