Category: Shorts
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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
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Rebounding?
Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes something you’ve never heard of before comes into your world, and then you see it everywhere even though you never noticed it before. That’s what happened recently with rebounding. Randy sent me a Facebook reel (that’s a really short video, in case you didn’t know) about how rebounding is really good… Read more
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Jackpot!
Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo things this week happened that made me feel like I won the lottery. In a post a couple of weeks ago, I mentioned my resistant high blood pressure and a supplement I’d heard might help treat the cause rather than the symptoms. I started taking that supplement about 2 weeks ago,… Read more
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I Want to Learn to Meditate
Reading Time: 2 minutesAll this health stuff the last couple of posts reminded me that one thing I really want to do is learn to meditate. They say (you know…they…the ones who aren’t me) that meditation has a lot of health and welfare benefits. I especially like the list that includes lowering stress, improving focus,… Read more
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The Truth About Aging
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSomewhere in our internet browsing adventures recently Randy and I discovered Gary Brecka. Brecka has an unusual, fascinating, and compelling story about how he came to start a podcast called The Ultimate Human. He’s a non-physician human biologist whose life work has been the study of how the human body does,… Read more
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86,400
Reading Time: 2 minutesI happened upon a Substack (essentially a blog hosting service) post this week from a favorite internet writer of mine, Seth Keshel. You can read it here. The post is about the 86,400 seconds of time each of us have to spend every single day of our lives. I’ve written about spending… Read more