This post is from 2017. Since then our friends sold their vacation cabin and he passed away leaving us with some really great memories. On our last visit I knew it was likely our last trip there. That made it … Continue reading
Category Archives: Aging Gracefully
Random 3 for September 13, 2026 – Birthdays, food tastes, scams
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It was a slow week for excitement so only three thoughts for today. Happy birthday Mom! – Today is my mom’s birthday. She would be over 100 at this point. She died in 1986 and I still miss her! (and … Continue reading
Throw Back Tuesday: Osteoporosis and all that!
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This post is from 2019. Some things have changed. I don’t go to the same doctor. The new one has different protocols and I’m on a new med. My bone density test showed significant improvement (which they said would never … Continue reading
Random 5 for September 6, 2026 – School clothes, aging, styles, relatives, medical
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What’s cool for school! – This week I saw two different groups of high school girls at Starbucks. One group wore uniforms with tan dockside shoes and crew socks. Very attractive. The other wore grey slightly oversized sweat suits. They … Continue reading
Throwback Tuesday — The magic
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I remember when I was young and living at home, there was some magic although not quite this much. This post is from 2016. I remember this friend but haven’t seen him in 30 years. I googled and it looks … Continue reading
Random 5 for August 30, 2026 – Traffic, deer, dumb, people, Canadians
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A switch was flipped – This past Monday the traffic for my 7 a.m. coffee run went from seeing 5 to 10 cars to 30 to 50. It’s not the arrival of pumpkin latte time (maybe a little). Schools started … Continue reading
Throwback Tuesday – The yearbook tale revisited!
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I finally got rid of all my yearbooks. I was going to write about it, but this flipped up in my oldies file from 2017 and nothing has changed (except now they are all gone). I’m going with this. Same … Continue reading
Random 5 for August 23, 2026 – Coffee, accidents, yearbooks, high school, eyeglasses
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I didn’t realize how appropriate this would be for today when I saved it! It wasn’t an auspicious start to the day! — I spilled my coffee while getting out of my car this morning. Sticky mocha latte was all … Continue reading
TNT: The last stage of guilt…maybe
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Throwback Tuesday — This post is from 2017. Not much has changed except I don’t make homemade brownies often. The box mix will do in a pinch! Aside from eating three brownies in a day this past weekend (I can’t … Continue reading
Random 5 for August 16, 2026 – Dad, driving, programs, Starbucks, pumpkin time
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Happy birthday Dad! – Yesterday was my dad’s birthday. He would have been way over 100 years old. He died in 1958, but I still remember him on his birthday. I’ve written about him over the years. A good man … Continue reading
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