Category: Shorts
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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
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A Tupperware Tidbit
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNote: I got this information from a Facebook site and thought you’d enjoy this blast from the past. Did you know an amateur inventor and designer named Earl Silas Tupper first invented Tupperware around 1942. Then in the early 1950s, Brownie Wise, a middle-aged housewife and impoverished single mother living in… Read more
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We Are Family…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few years ago, just before covid struck and created havoc with people’s lives, we were planning a reunion of sorts with most of Randy’s brothers and sisters. The plan was to rent an Air BnB near Williamstown, KY and tour the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum together. We all looked… Read more
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Snow? Ah….NO!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI saw a picture on Facebook the other day of the snow that’s falling in the mountains of California. I thought it would make a good post, but couldn’t find that particular photo again. But I did find this one. Oh Lord, the news article said that more than 400 inches… Read more
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Split Personality??
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn December 31, 1899, Captain John Phillips was navigating the passenger-cargo ship SS Warrimoo when his crew informed him that they were approaching the equator. Captain Phillips had his navigator double check their position, and then adjusted the course and speed of the Warrimoo so that at exactly 12 a.m., the ship… Read more
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New Author, Fun Book Series
Reading Time: 2 minutesI recently discovered an author I’d never heard of before. I ran across a book called While We Were Watching Downton Abbey at a used book store. It was a such a fun read I decided to research the author. To my surprise I found that she’s written more than 10 books,… Read more