My anniversary of quitting caffeine came and went last week. Back in 2021, I wrote about my caffeine journeyand I celebrated one year of no longer being addicted to caffeine. In 2022, though I didn’t write about it, I was still not doing caffeine habitually. This year, the state of my caffeine addiction is much […]
I found a new-to-me author on Kickstarter. The book looked interesting. I wasn’t sure about it, though. It is supposed to be a humorous book, and humor can be mighty subjective. The author listed a LARGE link at the top of her Kickstarter page for access to the first chapter for free. I figured that
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For those of you playing along at home, I need eye surgeries to get my cataracts replaced. I was finally able to talk with the scheduler this week. My doctor told me frankly that he had a big problem with his scheduler, that I was going to have to call her in order to get
So it’s been a little over a week since I fell and gave myself a minor concussion. I’ve never had a concussion before, and it’s been interesting. Took a few days for my sense of balance to come back to full. I now can balance without issues on either one foot or the other, but
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For those of you who missed the first post, I fell and hit my temple hard enough to give myself a minor concussion. I’m fine. Also, I already had a doctor appointment scheduled for this week, so will check in about it with him. Though I’m tired from not sleeping well for the past couple
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First off, let me just say that I’m fine. A little bruised, sore, and shaken, but overall, I’m doing fine. For those of you following along from home, we’ve been having issues with our furnace since the end of November, and are having to replace the entire system. (If you’ve ever thought about buying books,
2022 has been a year. While this wasn’t the most difficult year of my life, it certainly hasn’t been easy. And this December the hits have just kept coming, with furnace problems, well-pump problems, and power problems. (We’ve lost power for significant amounts of time the last three days. It’s early today—no guarantees that we’ll
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I’ve come to realize that one of my traditions over the holiday season is to cook and bake. It’s partly nesting, digging in, and making food while it’s nasty outside. Before the plague, it would also be social: I’d go to cookie-making parties, holiday potluck parties, or to my brother’s house and would cook for
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We live at the end of a cul-de-sac. We don’t actually live on the cul-de-sac. Instead, you drive to the end of the cul-de-sac then go up a gravel driveway a quarter-mile to our house. For the first few years when we lived here, none of the neighbors knew we were here. They didn’t know
I am writing this a little bit before my 61st birthday. I have been racking my brain trying to find some words of wisdom that I might share from this grand pinnacle. (My birthday was on December 1st) I got nothing. Earlier this year, was when I kind of had might come to Jesus moment.
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