Category: Shorts
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The Cough That Won’t End
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt finally got me. I haven’t been sick for almost 4 years. Last year, returning from the Panama Canal cruise, I sneezed and coughed for a few days, but it never took hold. But I’ve been hacking for almost 2 weeks now and I can’t seem to make any progress on… Read more
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Life is Good
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe just finished another major election cycle. Part of the country is jubilant, part is grieving, and some small part are probably oblivious. If you’re jubilant, be kind. Remember how you felt 4 years ago, and check where you are now. Most of your worst fears didn’t materialize. If you’re grieving,… Read more
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The End for Tupperware? Or Not?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAbout 18 months ago I wrote a short post about Tupperware. As a young (cash-strapped) housewife, I found a way to afford some of the “can’t live without” marvelous products that I saw during those “free” but fun social events I always looked forward to, Tupperware parties. I still have Tupperware in… Read more
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Here’s Your Belly Laugh for Today
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn keeping with the theme of Tuesday’s post, I’m taking the opportunity today to provide a few things for you to laugh at without having to go search for them. A few jokes…. Why don’t pirates take a shower before they walk the plank? (They just wash up on shore!) A… Read more
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Total Devastation
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn lieu of a post today, please just visit this Facebook link from Charlotte County Emergency Management. Our home and area, only 15 minutes from Englewood Beach (where these pictures were taken) was completely spared wind and water damage. But my heart breaks for all those affected by Hurricane Helene and… Read more
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Surely You Can See What I See
Reading Time: 2 minutesOur week in New Hampshire ends today. It’s been great. On Wednesday we visited the Atlantic coastline of three states in the space of about an hour. It was an interesting, fun, and unique experience. The beaches in the northeast are so different from those in southwest Florida. There were no shells… Read more
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Cary, NC
Reading Time: 2 minutesRandy’s sister Kristine and her husband Gary have lived in Cary, NC for more than 45 years. I always thought of it as a sleepy little bedroom community supporting its metro area, Raleigh. In 1980 its population was not quite 22,000 people. As we drove in this week I commented to Randy… Read more
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We’re Fine, Lucky, and Grateful
Reading Time: 2 minutesHurricane Helene passed about 160 miles west of us out in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday. She was another monster storm, just 2 days before the 2 year anniversary of Hurricane Ian. Many of the same people devastated during Ian are reeling this morning from another knock-out punch. Thankfully, we aren’t among… Read more
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The Beauty of Clouds
Reading Time: 2 minutesA friend of mine once told me that her mother, years ago, when moving to Florida was newly popular, was in a heated debate with a friend. The friend was arguing that there was no scenery to speak of in Florida, that it was flat and uninteresting. The friend extolled the virtues… Read more
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The Pain of Rebounding
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe got the rebounder I mentioned in last week’s short post. I got on it thinking I would bounce for just the 2 minutes they said was all it took to do a complete flush of the body’s lymphatic system. Two minutes! Heck….anyone can do anything for two minutes, can’t they!?… Read more