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Category Archives: Life

I don’t Like Spiders and Snakes…

6 June 2020

With apologies to Jim Stafford. But I really don’t… At all… So guess what, as I was taking Teddy outside …

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Rainy Memorial Day and other thoughts…

27 May 2020

Memorial Day musings

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Zen and the Art of Taking Care of Chores

25 May 2020

Consider the “soji” perspective towards the tasks in your life. What if it wasn’t about completing but more about simply doing.

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Coffee… ☕

22 May 2020

I got my Bialetti today! It’s an Italian coffee percolator (sorta). I was doing online research for a mid-century style …

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Finish Each Day and be done with it.

13 January 2014

Excellent advice from Emerson. Ralph W. was the man, he absolutely knew how to live each day to its utmost …

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When You Are Old (W. Yeats)

11 January 2014

When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And …

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Last day of vacation!

30 December 2013

Beautiful day out today, but I still didn’t do much of anything. I did find instructions to make a cool …

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Moose Moose Duck

19 October 2012

Everyone needs rules, or guidelines to make their lives smoother. Without them we would have chaos. In Sanskrit, the word …

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