Category: Self Improvement
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A Return to Joy
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn the book I’m currently reading, the author calls God by the name Joy. I was pondering that yesterday on my morning walk in the park. A friend of mine asked me not long ago if I was mad at God about Randy’s death. I know there are lots of people who… Read more
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In- and Out-of-Whack
Reading Time: 5 minutesCarla and I had lunch together yesterday and she asked me what I was going to write about tomorrow. I was a little taken aback. I don’t know what’s going on in my temporarily impaired widow brain, but I hadn’t given one moment’s thought to the fact that tomorrow is Tuesday. And… Read more
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Life Re-imagined
Reading Time: 6 minutesWe don’t always get to choose what happens to us, but we do always get to choose how we react to what happens to us. Losing a spouse of 50 years is a hell of a change forced on anyone. It’s been more staggering than I could have ever imagined. Tomorrow will… Read more
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Whatever it Takes
Reading Time: 5 minutesHere it is, Tuesday morning. Blog post due today. And I feel completely overwhelmed and fresh out of ideas. I told a friend this week that I started 68andcounting.com to develop the habit of writing regularly, to give me something productive to do with my time in retirement, and to provide a… Read more
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One Bite at a Time
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast week I wrote about all the stuff, mostly Randy’s, that no longer serves me. The idea for that post came from the widow and grief materials that bombard me daily on Facebook. Those algorithms really work. This week I saw several things that made an impact on me. I used to… Read more
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What No Longer Serves Me
Reading Time: 5 minutesI am really starting to miss Randy. Being alone in this house is a completely different experience than I’ve had for all of my life. Several of my friends still check on me every day. Some of their eyes glaze over when they ask what I did that day. I laughed when… Read more
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Adventure Awaits
Reading Time: 5 minutesDo you ever look back on seemingly random and minor things in your life that somehow all line up and create, perhaps even far into the future, something significant and meaningful? It feels like so many little (some really little, like the stickers I’m about to tell you about) things that happened… Read more
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Feeling the Love
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn day-to-day life in America in 2026, we throw the word love around like a politician throwing candy in a local small-town Memorial Day parade. We’re trained and conditioned to hear and say we love or are loved so often and so easily that it pops out of mouths automatically, sometimes at… Read more
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Theo of Golden
Reading Time: 5 minutesMy friend Michele received a copy of Theo of Golden for her birthday last month. She read it quickly, then loaned it to me when she went to Guatemala on her memoir writer’s retreat earlier this month. I’d never heard of the book, but when I looked it up, I was interested… Read more
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About That Excellent Nonsense
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast week my friend, Carla, told me about a book she was reading with the genius title of Slowing Down to the Speed of Joy. I mentioned I’d like to read it and she gifted me with one of the 5 copies she bought at an author’s event recently. The premise of… Read more