Category: Self Improvement
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The Power of Snail Mail
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe bought our house here in Florida from The Sand Dollar Home Team. We are invited to 2 fun social events a year, usually a wine and beer tasting and an ice cream social. They sent me a beautiful orchid in a gorgeous piece of hand and locally made pottery after my… Read more
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Vive ut Vivas!
Reading Time: 5 minutesI have no clue how or why I ran across the phrase Vive ut Vivas, yet here it is. And it’s my new motto. With the cancer and mastectomy behind me, I look forward to the rest of my life. Translated literally from Latin, it means live to live or live so… Read more
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These Bods Are Made For Walking
Reading Time: 6 minutesMy apologies to Nancy Sinatra. Scratching around for a blog post this week yielded nothing I could get excited enough to write about. Every topic I thought of was, as Yogi Berra famously said, “deja vu all over again.” I suppose that’s because I’m going through exactly what I went through just… Read more
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Surviving Basic Training
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn 1980, Air Force Basic Training was 6 weeks long. In 2025 it’s 7.5 weeks long. I don’t know for sure, but I think the increase in length is because they have to wean recruits from electronics and do some cultural deprogramming. Teaching a young adult today to obey orders isn’t as… Read more
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Crappy Service
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHave you ever noticed that service in a restaurant is really lousy when the restaurant isn’t very busy? Randy and I think this is almost universally true. It’s interesting to us because it’s counterintuitive. You’d think that when servers aren’t busy they’d give you more, not less, of their attention. But… Read more
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Who Needs the F-Word?
Reading Time: 5 minutesI just finished one of the best books I’ve ever read, and one of the worst books I’ve ever read. They had several things in common. They were both written by female authors in their early forties. The writing was well done, clever, and moved the reader through the story well. In… Read more
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Rely on Yourself
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve had a bit of a battle this week trying to get my blood pressure prescriptions coordinated between my doctor’s office and my mail-order (MO) pharmacy. Several weeks ago my doctor renewed a script for one of my meds. Then I got a text from the MO pharmacy saying they were out… Read more
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Post Holiday Doldrums
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe tree is down, the cheery colorful lights are dark, the Christmas treats are gone, and all the special meals have been cooked and eaten. Some people suffer from a feeling of let down or even depression when the holidays are over. We’re just a week past the typically high energy holiday… Read more
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The Not So Sweet Season
Reading Time: 2 minutesI know it’s not polite to brag about yourself, but I’m feeling pretty accomplished. This holiday season (so far) Randy and I have managed to completely avoid everything in the category of Christmas cookies and candy. We didn’t set out to do that, but I am beyond grateful that it happened “organically.”… Read more
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Don’t Look Back!
Reading Time: 4 minutesI know it’s Christmas Eve. I know readers might expect me to write something Christmasy. But the truth of the matter is that I’m just not feeling it. And when I’m not feeling it, nothing worth reading flows through my fingers to the keyboard. Just so no one thinks I’m a complete… Read more