Category: Shorts
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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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A Perfect Life
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAllow me to wax philosophical for one minute. I am content, quietly happy and fully satisfied. I have enough. I am at peace, mentally, spiritually and emotionally. I am happy to be alive and living in paradise every day. There is nothing I need or want that I don’t have the… 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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Spilling Our Guts
Reading Time: < 1 minute<Big Sigh> Interior hurricane damage repair started yesterday. The poor house. A team of mold specialists came in and just started ripping the guts out of our master bedroom wing. There wasn’t a lot of mold, but there sure was a lot of water damage to the drywall on the end… Read more
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Our High Places
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve never before said this publicly, but God knows how proud I am of my husband Randy, and the effort he’s made in starting and maintaining his website, Our High Places. Years ago Randy had a conversation with a friend who told him that she kept a journal of all the… Read more
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Swimming Pigs
Reading Time: < 1 minuteImagine (if you can) that one of your dream vacations is to visit the Bahamas, mainly to have the Swimming Pigs experience. OK, neither can I imagine that. But I did find a travel blogger who said that. See for yourself here. Our cruise included a choice to book a shore… Read more
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Cruise Virgins
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUp until now Randy and I have never had any desire or given much thought to taking a cruise. People. That always the problem for us. So many people, so little space. But it seems like EVERYONE we know who lives in Florida are cruise veterans. And most people love them… Read more
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Avatar 2 3D Movie Review
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy best friend, Lynn (Randy’s sister) and I watched the first Avatar a few days ago to prepare us to see the sequel in 3D this week. Since it’s been 13 years between Avatar and Avatar 2, and because I’m not a movie buff, I remembered almost nothing of the first… Read more
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The Pool is Heated
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe rest of the country is parked in the deep freeze. I’ve talked to friends today in places that aren’t Florida and they all have temperatures in the negative number, as in below 0. And then, adding the wind chill, well…. In this location (Loon Lake, WA) the forecast was -2.… Read more
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Fire and Water
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhy is it that we can stare at campfires and beach waves for long periods of time? Here’s a video link to a video I took one day on the beach. What’s the fascination? Why are people compelled to sit around a campfire or on a beach for hours? Why do… Read more