More September Excitement

More September Excitement

First - we celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary on Sept. 16th! Amazing, really. I can't believe that it's been twenty years already. Blink of an eye for sure. We went to the Chesapeake Seafood House for dinner; we'd gone there on the evening of our very first date. We'd actually gone to lunch at Incredibly Delicious so many years ago and it went so well, and the next day Kevin was about to go somewhere and do a triathlon, so I think I suggested that we go out to dinner on the very same night, because why not? This time we went super early because we were so hungry and I got lobster...

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Flooding the Zone,

Flooding the Zone,

which I'm reading is actually a political term, whereby someone does a whole bunch of different things in all directions in order to cause confusion. Well, that's not what flooding the zone means to...

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Cue the Plague of Locusts…

Cue the Plague of Locusts…

That's what was going through my mind on Sunday morning. Actually, my first thought was "Are you f***king KIDDING me?" Because after all the stuff with Mom's surgery, and she's doing great, BTW, I...

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OK then…

OK then…

Yeah, where have I been? Well, for one thing, Mom and I got back from an impromptu trip to NYC, and we just got back on Tuesday. That's the Tuesday that we just had, June 23rd. We left for NYC on...

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Hi there…

Hi there…

Whew, time continues to fly by, and now we're in May, although it feels a little bit like late March because suddenly it's a little bit chilly. A real roller coaster of weather we've been having...

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Homeward Bound

Homeward Bound

I got up ridiculously early on Wednesday, Jan. 28th. The thing is, the ocean was visible from the backyard but I didn't notice it til getting up so early. This was only 7:30 in the morning. I don't...

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Our Last Full Day in Florida

Our Last Full Day in Florida

Whew, finally nearing the story of of our Florida trip, and now it's already April...anyway, there were many things I wanted to do on this last day, but didn't have time for all of them. It was kind...

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Florida Monday

Florida Monday

It was chilly and windy on Monday in Florida, as expected. We had a leisurely morning enjoying the lanai overlooking the pool. And we finally managed to get into the car to go to the beach at the...

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Florida Sunday

Florida Sunday

The weather was about to get chilly in Florida, so I figured we'd better take a boat ride and maybe see some dolphins on Sunday, Jan. 25th. But first, of course, we had to go to the grocery store....

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Mini Gracetalk!

Today, March 19th, I did a short Gracetalk for the Academy of Lifelong Learning at Lincoln Land Community College. I haven't done any Gracetalks at all since 2018, and so I had worked myself into a...

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