Participating in the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge Less than a year ago, the far east was my limit in travel. I was still looking at cruises that folks tack on to their Australia trips. Go up north a bit. See what I could see in my lifetime. Travel booklets arrived every day, …
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Life at 82: S is for Story
Participating in the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge Early on when I started this blog (2010), I often wrote about the importance of telling your story. I said if you don’t, your words will die with you. I still feel that way, only more so. Since I retired from teaching nursing in 2000, …
Life at 82: Q is for Quote
After posting a few quotes on Life this past week that are newly meaningful to me, I naturally thought of using Quote for the letter Q. That brought me to a favorite Biblical quote that also refers to our lives. Background: In my graduate research, I studied the meaning of leisure for older persons. I …
Life at 82: P is for Place
Frederick Buechner is well known for many of his quotes. Perhaps you’ve heard this one but didn’t know where it came from. It relates well to my posts of the last few days on LIFE. “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” I …
Life at 82: K is for Kinship
Being back in Grand Rapids, MI, this week elicits several feelings of kinship--an appreciation of similar origins. Like visiting my sister-in-law, Kay, yesterday. We are the oldest and youngest of my sibling clan, and the other eight have passed away. So a special visit for sure. Then stopping at my parents' cemetery yesterday brought tears. …
Life at 82: G is for Grrrr…
Participating in the Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge Just when I think I’m on a break concerning finances, on my way to church yesterday, a fraud alert dinged on my watch. The watch face is too small to read, especially when I’m driving, so I planned to check my phone once I …
Life at 82: F is for Finances
Participating in the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge After 1000 hours of gut ache, my taxes are finished…or at least until my CPA calls me to tell me what is missing. Last week: I get back from AZ and think doing taxes will take me one day. I have copious notes and several …
Life at 82: E is for Exercise
Participating in the A to Z Blogging in April Challenge I did everything I could do yesterday to procrastinate what I had to do: taxes. First, I turned off my alarm at 8 and went back to sleep. My body is still clinging to AZ time. I woke up for the second time at 10 …
Life at 82: D is for Diet
Participating in the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge Diet. Such a hated word. Who wants to deprive themselves anyway? It seems like I’ve been dieting most of my life. In my thirties already, I graduated TOPS and became a KOP (keep off pounds sensibly). The meetings were so much fun. We’d joined a …
Life at 82: C is for Clutter
Three months of accumulated partially-sorted mail Who wants to hear more about clutter? Google the word and you’ll find dozens of definitions. What I’m talking about is the stuff that accumulates in your home. Perhaps it all has a place, but you haven’t had time yet, or taken the time, to put it away. A …
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