Category: Self Improvement
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Enough Already!
Reading Time: 4 minutes I’ve had enough. I have enough. Can we please just stop already? We went to a new church last weekend, and as first timers, Randy and I were EACH given a welcome bag that included a beautiful large ceramic coffee mug and a couple of pens with the literature that told… Read more
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Uniquely Portable Magic
Reading Time: 4 minutes I love books. I love reading. I read for pleasure, to gain knowledge, to learn history, for other perspectives, to increase my imagination, to help prevent cognitive decline. Reading has significantly expanded my vocabulary and improved my writing skill. Reading has enriched my life and taken me, physically, mentally, spiritually, and… Read more
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Laugh! It’s great for the soul.
Reading Time: < 1 minute I used to google “belly laugh comedies” and hope we found a funny movie to watch that wasn’t too stupid, too profane and/or too violent for our taste. It rarely worked out. This week I stumbled on a YouTube channel called Drybar Comedy. Though I’ve only watched 4 of the… Read more
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Friendship is an Action Word
Reading Time: 4 minutes I’m just full of old, tried (or maybe tired) and true sayings today. In addition to “Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver and the other gold” there’s “No man (woman) is an island.” And the great 60s classic….”I get by with a little help from my friends.”… Read more
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The Cure for Anything
Reading Time: < 1 minute My youngest sister Lisa is visiting. She lives in Naples and because she blazed the way moving to Florida 3 years ago, we now live here too. She was in Wisconsin and other parts north when we were earlier this month. We agreed, coming back to Florida after a mainly… Read more
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Marriage Musings
Reading Time: 4 minutes We made the road trip to Wisconsin, as I mentioned, to attend two family weddings. The first one is now behind us. It was a beautiful, contemporary event. The groom is a favorite nephew of ours, extraordinarily intelligent, a caring, witty fellow who’s got his head screwed on as straight as… Read more
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There IS a Secret to Happiness
Reading Time: 4 minutes I am a voracious and exceedingly varied reader. Some of the things I read are pretty heavy, and I can only comprehend what I’m reading in small doses. One book I recently finished, The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle, was one of THOSE books. The book is subtitled, A Guide… Read more
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Ya Gotta Have a Purpose
Reading Time: 2 minutes As much as I’d love to be able to lay on the beach every day, that’s not practical when designing life after retirement. I’ve always wanted to write. Not fiction. I’m not very good at making up stories. But it seems I have a bit of talent for telling real stories,… Read more
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The Eating Season
Reading Time: 4 minutes When Christmas Day is Monday, and you’ve been traveling all week, Tuesday morning and the realization you need a new post to keep up with your self-imposed schedule creeps up on you awfully fast. We were putting some of the final touches on Christmas dinner (prime rib, twice baked potatoes, pop-overs,… Read more