Category: Shorts
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Our Crazy Upside Down World
Reading Time: 2 minutes Randy and I got home from our cruise last week on Thursday, both with head colds. Mine was just barely starting but Randy’s was several days old so I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to get off scot-free. We both had dentist appointments scheduled for the following Monday so I… Read more
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A Unique Thanksgiving Dinner
Reading Time: 2 minutes There’s a first time for everything. It took me and Randy 70 years (give or take) to experience our first American Thanksgiving dinner at a Chinese buffet. Buffet City is our favorite restaurant any other day of the year. We didn’t know how much Thanksgiving (with turkey on the buffet) would… Read more
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Dance Like Nobody is Watching
Reading Time: 2 minutes How many of us are self-conscious when dancing? It’s one thing to get out on the dance floor and shuffle our feet, move our hips a little, sway to the beat, and twist and turn in place. But it’s quite another to get out there, pull out all the stops, get… Read more
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Project Linus
Reading Time: < 1 minute You remember Linus from the Peanuts cartoon? He’s the kid dragging the blanket wherever he goes. Turns out Linus is the poster boy for a national project I recently found out about. And this worthy project is right up my alley. The mission of Project Linus two-fold. First, to provide… Read more
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Garage Sales
Reading Time: < 1 minute I have a hate/hate relationship with garage sales. I hate going to them and I hate having them. Yet, in nearly 50 years of marriage, and being raised by my mom, I have learned that garage sales are a necessary evil of modern life. This morning I’m sitting at my… Read more
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Alexa, The Snitch
Reading Time: < 1 minute When we closed on our house in July 2021, our realtor gifted us with a Ring doorbell and an Amazon Echo Show 5. The Ring doorbell lives, camera facing down, in a drawer except when we’re away from home where we set it up to watch both the front door… Read more
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Black-Eyed Susans
Reading Time: 2 minutes I wrote about the summer Randy and I met in 1969. You’ll find that post here in case you want to read it again, or maybe read it for the first time. One thing I didn’t put in that post was where Randy first kissed me. He was a smoker back… Read more
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My Guilty Pleasure
Reading Time: 2 minutes I often tell people I only turn on the TV in our house for Packer games. That’s been true for the whole two years and a couple of months we’ve lived here. I can no longer say that. Since it premiered in June 2005, I’ve claimed Dancing With the Stars as… Read more
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Life is Damn Good
Reading Time: 2 minutes Randy and I arrived home today after being on the road for one day shy of 3 weeks. You know from my previous posts that we have, in the past, really loved road tripping. Yesterday, after a particularly brutal driving segment of the trip (Franklin, TN to Lake City, FL) Randy… Read more
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Sometimes You Just Got Nothin’
Reading Time: < 1 minute We’re at my mom’s in Manitowoc again, and Friday morning rolled around much faster than I imagined this week. I’ve got several blog post ideas rolling around in my head, but none seemed to work for the short post this week. Usually I work under pressure, but this morning I… Read more