Category: Self Improvement
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Friendship is an Action Word
Reading Time: 4 minutesI’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.” And… Read more
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The Cure for Anything
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy 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 cool,… Read more
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Marriage Musings
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe 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 any… Read more
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There IS a Secret to Happiness
Reading Time: 4 minutesI 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 to… Read more
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Ya Gotta Have a Purpose
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs 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, in… Read more