Archives in Category: Changing Scene

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Christmas

Posted on September 25, 2015

Three months from today is Christmas.  There’s plenty of time to buy the gifts and get the tree and cook the turkey. In fact, when I was little Christmas didn’t come on the radar until the day after Thanksgiving.

Not

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Final Renovation

Posted on September 14, 2015

It started in May: an effort to make our home more in tune with our current lifestyle rather than move to a new home that might work.  Or not.  Either way, it would send our lives into upheaval.

So in

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What I Did This Summer

Posted on September 9, 2015

It’s a teacher’s staple of the first week of school: Ask the students to either write or report on what they did for the summer. Here’s what I did.

Finished the sixty-hour course for my Michigan builder’s license and realized

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Signing Off . . . for Now

Posted on May 20, 2015

After thirty-three years as a late night TV host, tonight is David Letterman’s last show.  I’ve never watched late night television, but he must have been good to last that long. He must have had great personal endurance as well.

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Book Clubs

Posted on May 7, 2015

I belong to more than one book club; and, as it turns out, two of them met today: one in the morning at a local café and the other online this evening in the privacy of our respective homes.

I

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Anne Frank

Posted on April 28, 2015

She wanted to be a journalist when she grew up.  And the truth is that while she was denied a long life, her journalistic skills have been heard around the world.

The Diary of Anne Frank details her life in

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Unsung Heroes

Posted on April 21, 2015

There are 1500 crew members, all trying to please the guests on board the Regal Princess.  I acknowledge some of them here.

Thanks to the crew member who found my sweater and took it to Lost and Found.  It is

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Curly

Posted on April 2, 2015

I’m sure I’ve written somewhere along the way that I’ve been growing my hair longer.  It’s almost to my shoulders, even though most people my age wouldn’t go there.

Still, since August 2012, I’ve been trying to eliminate all the

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Slouching Toward April

Posted on March 24, 2015

This is the last full week of March and the last full week of the first quarter of the year.  I’m sure statisticians and politicians are watching for various signs of economic growth, decrease in unemployment, and who in the

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Boaters’ Spring

Posted on March 21, 2015

Today, Earl and I attended two open houses, both of which were aimed at the nautical crowd and offered free food. We were not among the former.  We don’t even own a kayak any more, but we were among the

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