Category: Self Improvement
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I Have an Idea
Reading Time: 4 minutesRandy and I were driving down to Naples this weekend to spend the day with sister Lisa, brother Denny (from Wisconsin) and their spouses, Jim and Marlene. As we often do, one of us said something that triggered a reminder of a bit of a song from our past. In this case,… Read more
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Assume!? Big Mistake.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteconsider myself a pretty smart cookie. But I got served a big helping of humility yesterday. Thankfully it was one of those bad news/good news things and I came out on the sunny side of a very stormy week, relearning a lesson I already knew, but obviously forgot to apply. Last… Read more
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Presidents on the Bucket List
Reading Time: 4 minutesDuring the Obama presidency, I watched (in horror) the country seemed to become more and more polarized by social and political division. I wondered if how I (and many of my friends and family) felt was anything like the mood of the people during the American Revolution. Because of my intense natural… Read more
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You Can…But Should You?
Reading Time: 3 minutesI can crochet. In fact, it’s possible, and I’m skilled enough, to be able to crochet anything I can imagine. But just because I can doesn’t necessarily mean I should. I submit, as evidence, the following pictures. I’ve been thinking a lot about all the things in life that can, but, perhaps,… Read more
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The Abecedarian With a Meldrop
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve been reading a lot lately and find myself still looking up words whose meaning I don’t know or are used out of the context in which I know them. In doing that I’ve run across a few words lately that frankly, make me laugh. Take the title of the post. An… Read more
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Groundcover or Weeds
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen my best friend and sister-in-law Lynn comes down for her snowbird stint in Florida each winter she works long and hard on cleaning up our landscaping. The first year we moved into the house it was a huge job. This year it was more cleaning up and trimming from the damage… Read more
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Sit! Heel! Diet! Exercise!
Reading Time: 4 minutesRandy and I both had doctor appointments last week for physicals. We got our fasting blood draw lab results and some future guidance for good health. Different doctors, same advice: diet and exercise. As I thought about it, I realized that when doctors talk to you like they talked to us, they’re… Read more
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Unplugged
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere’s an old debate about whether all the technology we use daily makes our lives easier or harder, whether it simplifies or complicates our existence. I can argue the issue either way. The truth is, though, I’m tired of how enslaved to technology I’ve become. That’s not to say that I’m brave… Read more
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What Matters Most
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere’s a 2007 film starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman called Bucket List. I’d recommend seeing it for a couple different reasons. It’s laugh-out-loud funny, jerks a few tears, and in the end is plenty thought provoking. Not long after I originally saw it, I was diagnosed (in January 2008) with a… Read more
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Overcoming Life’s Flotsam & Jetsam
Reading Time: 4 minutesI mentioned in my Shorts post on Friday how much I like New Year’s Day. It’s so full of possibilities. To be fair, every day can be full of possibilities. But on any given day we’re usually just moseying along existing from waking to sleeping. As we go through the motions of… Read more