life
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Check it off!
Apparently, I am immortal. At least that is the conclusion one might draw based on my recent behavior. In two weeks, we will arrive at the one-year anniversary of the day I asked for – and RECEIVED! – an estate planning… Continue reading
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Try Everything?
Few things bring me greater joy in life than singing. I love the art and the discipline and the total immersion in the moment singing brings. I sing in the car. I sing in the shower. I sing to our… Continue reading
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Whole Again
Is it possible to know too much? Or to be too educated? As an avid advocate of education, I would tend to answer these questions in the negative. My argument would be that more harm has been done in (and… Continue reading
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Old, Fresh, and Green
Here it is, year 3.5 and I am still not sure I have this thing figured out. The “thing” to which I refer is, of course, retirement. OK. I’m not dumb. I know what the word itself means… even without… Continue reading
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Plug In!
Today I am pleased to announce that after three years of diligent, post-retirement searching, I’ve finally FOUND MY PURPOSE! It has been a long, tedious process. I’ve looked high and low. Within and without. I have consulted mystics, tea leaves, and… Continue reading
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A Changed Life
Several years ago, Joan and I took a little vacation trip to Orcas Island. In case you are not familiar with it, Orcas Island is located squarely in the middle of the Straits of Juan de Fuca in the Puget… Continue reading
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SAVED
Passengers on the Titanic knew it. Jews living in the ghettos of Warsaw in 1939 knew it, too. No one knows it better today than the citizens of Ukraine. It certainly was a routine part of the consciousness of people… Continue reading
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Plagued by Purpose
There was a time… I remember it well… when the answer was so simple, it wasn’t even necessary to ask the question. Those were the days when you only had to look one branch down on the family tree to… Continue reading
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Short and Sweet
It was a great visit with the granddaughters. Three of them – two 14-year-olds and one 12-year-old – went back home yesterday after five raucous, fun-filled, tiring days with us here in Fort Collins. Even though we both waved good-bye… Continue reading
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Risky Business
What do you consider the riskiest thing you have ever done? Back in the early 90s, I started my own business. It was a little advertising and public relations agency based in Kansas City. But here’s the thing: I really… Continue reading
Russellings of the Spirit 