Category: Shorts
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A Sunny Place for Shady People
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI drove past a quaint little adult beverage establishment in Englewood a few months ago. The bar, called Will’s Honkytonk, had a slogan on their sign that I loved and has stuck with me. It says “A shady place for sunny people.” Clever and delightful. We learned that Will’s is a… Read more
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In Praise of Avocados
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYears ago, when people asked me if I liked a certain food, like zucchini or liver, I would tell them I didn’t eat anything with the last 6 letters of the alphabet in its name. I was mostly not joking. Somewhere along the line, in the not too distant past, we… Read more
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Learning to Rain Dance
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen we moved to Florida we were told there are actually 2 seasons here, the dry season and the wet season. That truth, and its consequences, aren’t really apparent until you’ve experienced a couple of years of those seasons. Last rainy season brought Hurricane Ian. We were sick of the rain… Read more
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Grandma and Grandpa On The Farm
Reading Time: 2 minutesMy good friend, Mary, who lives in Missouri, recently lost her mother-in-law, who was a doll collector. Mary doesn’t have much interest in dolls, but she’s always loved this pair. Here’s her note to me about this picture: “My heart has always been on the farm, I loved spending as much time… Read more
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A (Short) Story of Inflation
Reading Time: 2 minutesInflation silently and subversively steals our money. Many of the problems and hardships we’re having with the economy right now are because of inflation. This short post isn’t to explain how or why, but just give you a real-world Ah-ha! moment of how it works. Simple example: A couple of years ago… Read more
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The Light at the End of the Tunnel
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou can put your whole life on hold waiting to emerge into the light at the end of the tunnel. What I mean is that there’s always something that’s going to happen in the future that you think is the end of whatever you’re going through right now. And you’re always… Read more
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Wordle
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m addicted to a relatively new, once-a-day, on-line game. Called Wordle, it’s named after its inventor, a Welsh software engineer named Josh Wardle (convenient, huh?). A player has 6 tries to guess a 5 letter word. Feedback is given to players in the form of color tiles. Green means the correct… Read more
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Why Not Say What You Mean?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI have an Associate’s Degree in Marketing. It’s been interesting to me, over the years, to watch the language of our culture change to put the best possible spin on the baloney that happens so they can shape and control our opinions and thoughts. Words I grew up with, like gay,… Read more
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The 4th Quarter (of Your Life)
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor my birthday last week a friend gave me a copy of a book called No Regrets and its accompanying workbook, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life. No Regrets is a quick read, a parable of sorts, and Randy and I both read it in a couple of hours. We started… Read more
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You Can’t Get There From Here
Reading Time: 2 minutesI had to drive from our home to the Fort Lauderdale airport yesterday to pick up my niece and her daughter. It should have been a fairly quick 3 hour drive on I-75. But as I was leaving Port Charlotte I happened to pull up the route on Google maps and discovered… Read more