Category: Shorts
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Good Old-Fashioned Paper Books
Reading Time: < 1 minuteXfinity (Comcast) is the major cable service in the area. In many places, 2+ weeks after Hurricane Ian, many people still don’t have cable service. Facebook and Next Door are flooded with people screaming about this. There are reports of residents chasing Xfinity linemen with baseball bats. Randy and I drove… Read more
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You Don’t Say…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne more thing about listening. Peter Drucker (a prominent management consultant and author) once said, “The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.” The point he was making is that listening involves more than just hearing. Often people omit things that are difficult to say or they don’t… Read more
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Go Ahead, Touch Me
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve never liked to fly. But I do like the convenience, as I said in my post last week, of waking up in my own bed in Florida and having dinner in my all time favorite Mexican restaurant in Camdenton, Missouri. I’m careful about using the word hate, so I won’t say… Read more
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There’s No Place Like Home
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe older I get, the more I (unintentionally) resemble people I think of as old foggies. Here we are, not even a week into our 10 day vacation to Missouri and I’m ready to go home. Not that I’m not enjoying seeing everyone, visiting former haunts, and eating like I’m on… Read more
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No Politics, No Religion
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFinding something to post about twice a week is a challenge, especially when I’ve committed to steer clear of politics and religion, at least in a partisan fashion. As I was thinking about that today, I realized I have been collecting, for years, some of the most profound, interesting, comical, ironic,… Read more
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Have You Forgotten How to Play?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs a follow up to Tuesday’s post, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want the next decade of my life to look like. The thinking reminded me that I also designed, but never offered, another Community Adult Education class called Learning to Play Again. Playing is important as an… Read more
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Time to Come Clean
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is not the place to get into all the deep, dark psychology involved, but what I want to know is why in the world do we tell ourselves all kinds of lies. We all do it. Sometimes we’re actually dumb enough to believe our own lies. Most of the time… Read more
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Want to Change Something?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve been pondering lately what to do with the rest of my life. I want (and need) to get off my butt and find something more purposeful than what I’m doing to simply pass time. If a woman I’d been mentoring back in my Woman 2 Woman ministry days came to… Read more
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The Best Chips in All the Land
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI flew back up to Missouri to help Ozarkland’s parent company with a special project this week. I thought the best part of the trip would be that I got to eat the best chips and salsa in all the land at our favorite Mexican restaurant (El Caporal, Camdenton, MO) on… Read more
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A Year Already!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday, July 15, 2022, is the one year anniversary of the day Randy and I arrived in Florida to begin the rest of our life. It’s astonishing how much we’ve accomplished. New house, new roof, remodeled kitchen and bathrooms, great new friends, a SunPass toll road account, daily sunshine and joy,… Read more