Archives in Category: Changing Scene

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Weeding

Posted on September 9, 2004

My current form of exercise is an hour of weeding every day. While this may not sound strenuous, I’ve already lost a pound this past week; and my body feels more stretched and limber than before. My yard looks better

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Goodbye Twolimes

Posted on September 4, 2004

They don’t call me Twolimes for nothing. In fact, that is one of my current email addresses on AOL, a name I’m about to shed.

It began when I accidentally started drinking Absolut at a cocktail party about thirteen years ago.

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Blood Draw

Posted on September 2, 2004

I went to the local hospital yesterday afternoon to have a phlebotomist take a blood sample. My annual physical is next week, and my doctor wanted empirical data based on blood samples about my well being. I can’t say I

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Change

Posted on August 29, 2004

Cliches about change abound: Change is the only constant; the more things change the more they stay the same, it’s time to change your tune, change hands, change will do you good; change for the better, don’t be short-changed, unless

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Home Work

Posted on August 23, 2004

Here are some tips I’ve learned hanging out with Earl the Realtor® that are really useful when you go to buy that great home.

1. Everyone thinks he or she knows how to buy a home, because everyone lives in one.

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Signs

Posted on August 18, 2004

A few days ago I wrote about the shortening daylight as we inch toward the end of summer. I assume it’s pretty much the same each summer, with days becoming shorter more or less at the same rate every year.

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Turning Days

Posted on August 13, 2004

The days are beginning to shorten. If I believe the weatherperson we’ve lost a minute and a half between morning and evening every day since June 21, when the sun was at its apex. A minute and a half times

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Burn Victim

Posted on July 27, 2004

Getting divorced is a lot like getting burned. I mean physically burned. Even after the incident is over, the person hurts and can’t really be touched for awhile.

I recently had dinner with a friend who was officially divorced just the

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Downsizing, Part II

Posted on July 19, 2004

It isn’t our possessions that are problematic when Earl and I finally do the downsizing thing. With the exception of my piano, neither of us is so attached to most of our furniture that we couldn’t live without it. The

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Downsizing

Posted on July 18, 2004

It’s Sunday. Earl is a real estate agent, so you can imagine what we do for fun on Sunday afternoons. Whenever he isn’t holding an open house himself, we often go looking at model homes.

It’s not that we’re in the

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