Current Events

Bill and Me

I was going to call this post Invincible but apparently I’m not so I’m going with Bill and Me.  It’s about my current events. This winter after I completed my audiobook, I decided to record some audio stories to post on my website.  I couldn’t just pull stories from my book because the publisher won’t …

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Life Lessons

Reading Is FUNdamental

I started writing this story in April of 2022.  I found it in my draft folder, and I’ve decided to give it another go. As you read, you’ll discover it’s a story from my elementary principal days.  They ended on November 4, 1991, when I became a superintendent.  That was thirty-four years ago.  Time flies. …

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Florida’s Friendliest Hometown

I wrote this a year ago.  It popped up today and I can’t move it, so here’s a second look.   The Villages, Florida promotes itself as Florida’s Friendliest Hometown. Ruth and I bought our first home here in 2004. It was a patio villa that we owned for eighteen months. We bought a ranch …

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Ruth

Life’s Different Now

The final MRNA (Mom, Ruth, Nana, Altogether) Invitational was held last Friday, April 11th. This would have been Ruth’s seventy-eighth birthday.  I always looked forward to her birthday, in fact it was one of my favorite days of the year because for six weeks she was a year older than me. The first year’s event …

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Life Lessons

Dibs

If you grew up any time in the last several decades, the phrase “dibs” will be a memory that brings up either pain or pleasure, depending on whether or not you successfully snagged that last slice of pizza. “Dibs” is a popular slang phrase used to refer to the first right to something. Sometimes it’s …

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Ruth

A Penny for Your Thoughts

There’s an old saying… A penny for your thoughts. It’s been around as long as I remember. It’s a way of asking what someone is thinking. For example, “You’ve been gazing out that window for quite some time. A penny for your thoughts.” Something unusual happened to me the other day, so I looked up …

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It’s By Choice

Tuesday is the six-month anniversary of my new shoulder. If you’ve been reading my posts, you’ll recall that my three kids came down, one at a time, to spend a week with me during the end of September and the first part of October. Since David came first, he and I went golfing one last …

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