Oct 07 2024
How fortunate we are to live in an area with seasons! We may ask or comment about a favorite. Seeing the beautiful turn of aspen leaves may move fall to the top of our favorite season list. We read about special area drives to see the best splay of autumn colors. Or, we may hear …
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Sep 01 2024
As I watched the Olympic Games in Paris last month, it seemed for the thousands of competitors, this was their “once in a lifetime.” For the athletes, regardless the sport, training had been their fulltime goal for decades. For some, it would be their first competing in an Olympic Game; for others, probably their last. …
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Aug 06 2024
What if instead of “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” in 1929 sophisticated, impeccable style, we changed to something different? What would happen if that became something else? While still involving a “putting on” action, emotions, words or attitudes become that something different. The costs might vary; the response certainly will! If we put on kindness, what …
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Jul 06 2024
We all tell our stories. Then we add more stories, embellishing them for other audiences. “Is that the truth” becomes a frequently asked question. What do you do when your story material runs low? Well, take a trip and try for more stories found in different settings. We experienced this last summer when we met …
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May 06 2024
Recently, I asked a friend about his plans. He didn’t have an immediate answer having retired the previous day from a multiple-decade career in the financial field. He and his wife chuckled at the switch of life styles. She’s now heading off to work while he’s the one at home. I think that will be …
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Apr 06 2024
Yikes! When my friend said that recently, actually several times, I wondered. Did she have a diagnosis about which I knew nothing? Had she been ill and not said anything? No, she knows as the years roll on, her physical well-being isn’t what it was previously. Her awareness of her interests and ability to pursue …
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Mar 06 2024
I wonder how many different addresses we have had. Better yet, how many addresses will there be in our future. Being members of military families means a variety of moves both in the US and abroad. The saying was “I’m being moved” for IBM families. Most likely, we’ve moved a variety of times whether for …
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Feb 06 2024
We’re a month into the New Year and, indeed, what about those resolutions?! “I’ve already broken one,” my friend Lynn lamented as we walked into a meeting. Wondering what he’d done, I asked. “I had a Voodoo donut,” he explained. That led us into a discussion about their type, size, flavors – jelly filled, bacon, …
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Jan 01 2024
As we embark on a new year, “Serendipity,” seems an appropriate title. After all, it evokes finding something new or unexpected good luck. Doesn’t a new year hold that potential? My early association with serendipity comes from a folk song group years ago. They started in Colorado as the Newport Singers and then began swapping …
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Nov 06 2023
As I look at the beauty of the November sunsets, I’m reminded of a quote I heard years ago: “November sunsets are the dividends paid by the year before closing its books.” How true that seems to me. These sunsets along with the beautiful colors found in the sunrises, should we be awake to see …
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Jul 03 2023
My husband and I have apparently begun the habit of traveling on roads which, in hindsight, we should have missed. These shouldn’t-have-taken roads, have provided the fodder for funny stories and lots of laughter…later. Our first mistakenly traveled road, occurred in Georgia when we left the Whistle Stop Café (think “Fried Green Tomatoes”). I thought …
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Jun 05 2023
By Marty Coffin Evans A pink slip arrived in my high school classroom summoning me to the Dean of Girl’s office. “Oh dear,” I thought, believing I was a good kid and not accustomed to being called to a front office, especially one involving discipline. Dean Ruth Dinsmore proceeded to introduce me to Donna, a …
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