I believe that age is in direct correlation to the length of your lists. If you are young, your list, if you have one at all, is very small. If you are middle-age, if you use lists, you don’t tell anyone. If you’re our age, your lists are long and detailed. In fact, you have …
Month: July 2020
Discovery Prompts Day 28: Focus
Today while I was trying to gather some thoughts about the discovery prompt, I learned the Latin root of the word focus is hearth. We hear all kinds of things about the need for focus and how difficult it is with the current craziness. Everything has been turned upside down. Before the days of central …
Join the Team! Discovery Prompts Day 27.
My earliest introduction to team sports was Little League Baseball in fourth grade. I didn’t own a baseball glove until our next door neighbor gave me one. He was a lefty, too. He was a fantastic baseball player. He had seven no-hitters in high school, won championships in college, and went on to play professional …
Overcoming My Dam Fear
When I was very young I scooted as far forward in the bathtub as I could then quickly pushed back. All the water rushed to the other end of the tub and got really deep. It scared me. This is Discover Prompts Day 26. The key term is hidden. I have kept my secret hidden …
One Magic Weekend on Mackinac Island
When I think about the word magic, there is only one person, and one place that comes to mind. The place is Mackinac Island. The person is the girl I have been walking beside nearly fifty years. On our third date, I asked a beautiful girl to go with me to Mackinac Island for a …
Cody the Wonder Dog Goes to Houghton Lake
In over forty-five years, we have owned several wonderful golden retrievers. I don’t know how a golden could be anything but wonderful. Copper was our first. Lady, the princess, was our second golden. We raised her from a pup, she helped us raise our triplet sons, had a litter of twelve puppies, and left us …
Discover Prompts Day 24: Elixir, the Magic Potion
It really is a wonder we survived our childhood. There were all kinds of home remedies we were subjected to. From “Lucy’s Juice” to sweet nitre, I don’t know how we made it. When we were kids, there was a bottle of “Sweet Nitre” in the back of the fridge. It was always there, like …
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7 Tips For Cozy Landscaping
I know, you don’t often think of your outdoor space as being “cozy,” but if being cozy means it makes you feel good, that’s exactly what your landscaping should create. A cozy space. Here is Tip #1. Don’t try to do too much too fast. Think of your landscaping as an ongoing, long-term, evolving project. …
Discover Prompts Day 23: Notes
Obviously, that’s not me. When I’m sleeping I look rather hideous, so I chose to use this guy. He didn’t care. The prompt for today is Notes. I’m supposed to start a diary, which I’ve started many times and have never kept for more than two or three days. Something else I’ve never done is …
Discovery Prompts Day 22: Tempo
Nothing is more important to music than tempo. But life has a tempo that we either control ourselves or it will be controlled for us, and we will roll along with it. One of the hardest things to do is just stop. I’m retired now, but sometimes I feel more time-hassled than I did when …
A Coffee State of Mind 