Category: Retirement
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A Perfect Day. Without the Beach.
Reading Time: 4 minutesandy’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 without… Read more
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About That Bubble
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn 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 of… Read more
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The Pool is Heated
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe 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 -2.… Read more
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Living Like Millionaires
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe 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 time… 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 the… Read more
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Life’s Great Joy
Reading Time: 4 minutesNow 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 been… Read more
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Life Changing Yarn (Part 2)
Reading Time: 4 minutesThat 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 shawl… Read more
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Gray Pride
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBelongingness is right smack in the middle of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs…above food, clothing, shelter and safety, but below esteem and self-actualization. Most people spend their whole life joining groups and organizations that share their interests and help them feel good about themselves. Sometimes the organizations even help them “leave a… Read more
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Have You Forgotten How to Play?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs a follow up to Tuesday’s post, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want the next decade of my life to look like. The thinking reminded me that I also designed, but never offered, another Community Adult Education class called Learning to Play Again. Playing is important as an… Read more
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Peace River Lives Up to Its Name
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe took an airboat ride on the Peace River yesterday. It’s interesting to see Florida about 15 miles inland, away from the coastal communities and hub bub of the beaches and tourist traps that are stereotypical of the Florida in northerners minds. It’s unexpectedly beautiful and more peaceful than I’d imagined.… Read more