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Continue reading →: Weekend Work
What have you been working on? There are lots of ways I could interpret this prompt, but it’s Saturday, and that means I’m working on whatever music I’m singing on Sunday. I may be a volunteer, but I take my work as a church musician very seriously. According to family…
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Continue reading →: Date Night at Home
Friday night dinner has always been special. When the kids were little, we’d feed them early and get them to bed before we ate. It’s the evening when we’re most likely to have fresh seafood. A glass of wine is almost mandatory. Even when the kids were older, they knew…
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Continue reading →: Soggy Bottoms
Sometimes things just don’t go as planned. I was excited about the spinach and artichoke quiche that I was making yesterday. And why not? Spinach, artichokes, cheese: how can that be bad? Well, it was actually bad, but it was disappointing. Things started off well. The pie crust dough rolled…
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Continue reading →: Color Me Crafty
What’s something most people don’t know about you? Most people don’t know that I enjoy working on craft projects. It’s not something that I talk about usually, and I have no idea why that is. Crafting is my “me” time, something I generally do just for myself. I enjoy it…
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Continue reading →: Mental Health Days
Do lazy days make you feel rested or unproductive? A principal at one of the schools where I taught used to say that taking a mental health day was a valid reason to take a day off. Even though I’m retired, most of my days are busy. I still need…
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Continue reading →: Out to Lunch
We rarely go out to dinner, but lunch is another matter. Before Covid, we went out for lunch every Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday was usually “cheap lunch”—a sub at Jersey Mike’s or a pick two at Panera, for example. Saturday lunches were usually at sit down restaurants. Obviously, lockdown ended…
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Continue reading →: Salad Day
Today has been a day dominated by salads, and that’s a good thing! We had a church picnic after our service today. It may sound strange to be having a picnic in October, but this is Florida, so we can picnic pretty much year round. The weather was gray and…
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Continue reading →: Seven Principles
What principles define how you live? My answer to this prompt is one that is obvious to me, and represents an important part of my life. Almost 10 years ago, Ken and I became part of a Unitarian Universalist congregation. Although we had both grown up and spent most of…
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Continue reading →: Celebrating with Schnitzel
What I thought was going to be a pretty uneventful storm, at least for us, turned into a pretty stressful event. If you have read or seen any of the news coverage of Hurricane Milton, you probably heard about the tornadoes the storm generated. One of the most destructive twisters…
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Continue reading →: Hurricane Milton: the Waiting Game
If I have learned anything from living in South Florida for over 40 years, it’s how to wait for a hurricane. I can’t honestly say that it’s a lesson I’ve enjoyed. There is a lot that goes into hurricane preparation, but something that has to be considered is food. We…


