Archives in Category: Things to Ponder

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Time to Move?

“I want to take an elevator to our next home,” Earl told me yesterday. It’s an ongoing joke between us, but the circumstances of the past week have made us realize how convenient condo living can be.

You don’t have

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Sunday

As a child I never liked Sunday because there wasn’t enough action going on to meet my interests. Stores were closed, restaurants had shorter hours, and nobody ever called to make plans. It was truly a day of rest, just

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Potatoes

Maybe it’s my Irish heritage, but I never met a potato I didn’t like. And I search all the time. In super markets and restaurants and fast food stopovers.

I love baked potatoes, plain and twice-baked, sweet or Idaho. I

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Car Names

When I was the age that a new car turned my head, the Detroit automotive manufacturers were into animal names. There was the Mustang, the Cougar, the Impala, and the Colt. There was the Jaguar too, but that was a

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Day 127

I’m one third through the year on my exercise routine, and so far I haven’t lost any of the promised ten pounds. Maybe it all comes off at once at the end.

However, I’m not discouraged. Instead, I’m pleased that

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Piano Reverie

I’ve taken piano lessons for almost three and a half years, and – in effort and time — it has been an education comparable to the years I spent in college. In the latter situation, however, I graduated after a

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Caulk

It was my first experience caulking anything, and it probably wouldn’t have happened at all if Earl’s son, Rich, hadn’t pointed out the flaws in our shower.

“You might want to put some caulk here,” he said, pointing to never-before-noticed

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No Dogs

Last weekend the City of St. Joseph held its annual art festival on the bluff overlooking Lake Michigan. And, to my knowledge, it was the first year where the festival committee made a conscious, serious, and public decision not to

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Garlic

“I need a little timer,” I said to Earl, not explaining why in full detail. “Something cute too.”

“I’m on it,” he said a couple days ago as he went off on his errands. Sure enough, when he returned he

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Revenge

I ran across a favorite saying of mine this morning: “Living well is the best revenge.” And the person who quoted it was asking, “The best revenge for what?”

Dictionary definitions of revenge revolve around inflicting punishment of some sort

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