#1. Just spouting off.

Recently my wife received her Doctorate. She was already  a highly successful and respected Geriatric Nurse Practitioner specializing in Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia at the University Medical Center. Her Doctorate will probably not result in any more income, respect or personal recognition. So why would someone go through the headache, hassle, and...
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A while back my wife and I were at Warwick Castle in England, which by the way is one of the most amazing places in the whole world. I was almost speechless when I first walked up to it. Wow. I loved it and hope to return someday. Anyhow, while we were there the...
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That old saying, “What goes around comes around” is sure true. I think that it pertains to not only our behaviors and actions, but to the cyclical nature of this planet and all things that on it are. Even us people. We have the rotation of the earth with the rising and setting of...
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Technology. I love it and I hate it. I need it but I want nothing to do with it. I want it to be part of my life, but I just can’t trust it. Its not my fault, it my computer’s. Really. Here I am sitting at my desk. I’m typing madly away and...
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Life is like a Jack-in-the-box? That sounds a little trite you say? Maybe … maybe not. You see, when you turn the handle of a Jack-in-the-box, immediately all sorts of interesting and sometimes surprising things happen. Recently I had the opportunity to become reacquainted with someone from my youth. It is interesting to open...
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Every year at this time we experience floods. Sometimes it’s our basement. Sometimes it’s a neighbors house. Today it was one of our apartment buildings. The ground seems soaked to capacity with the melted snow so it does not welcome the inevitable addition of irrigation water from the system that gets opened up. Every...
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That title doesn’t make any sense you say? Actually it does. Years ago I was scuba diving off Catalina island with my two sons and a group of scouts. We were diving at night. I almost drowned. I panicked. I even spit out the octopus (the mouth piece connected to the air tank) and...
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That old adage “What goes around comes around” has once again proven itself true. For years our real estate investments have produced significant tax shelter due to the depreciation allowances. Now I’m at the stage where we are refining our portfolio, reducing its size and condensing the workload to prepare for what we hope...
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Just like in the Wallace and Gromet episode, a series of interesting and unnerving events can occur if you somehow get on the wrong trousers. I know. It happened to me. A couple blogs ago I trumpeted my shame at the need to buy bigger pants. Now I am forced to admit I was...
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OK, I admit it. I have it. It keeps me up late at night. I wake in the morning with my heart and mind racing. I get half way through a movie and realize I can’t remember what has happened so far. I hear voices at every business I visit telling me how things...
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