Category: Shorts
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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
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Lazy Days
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI didn’t get up this morning until nearly 10 am. In my defense I had a bad night and didn’t fall asleep until the wee hours of the morning. Since I’ve been awake I’ve done basically nothing. My sweet husband just let me sleep and went about his business, taking care… Read more
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Laugh! It’s great for the soul.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI 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 hundreds… Read more
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Beam Me Over, Scotty
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI can’t wait for the reality of teleportation. The drive home from Wisconsin was brutal. Twenty-four hours in the car, outside temperatures sometimes upwards of 100 degrees, and fuel prices at break-the-bank levels. There’s no place like home. But in the future, to get back and forth between home and the… Read more