Global Issues… Celebrate Women’s History Month Together #celebratewomenshistory 27 Mar 202526 Mar 2025 Quick, name three women from history who made a significant impact your life today. Now, click comment below, and share who they are and how their efforts changed your life.…
Blog Events… A Kid at Heart? 1 Nov 2023 Wordpress Prompt: What does it mean to be a kid at heart?For All Saints Day: November 1, 2023 Ideal, to be a child at heart. Delighted. Lighthearted. Venturing seas uncharted.…
Blog Events… Cost v. Risk Assessments 24 Oct 202324 Oct 2023 What’s the biggest risk you’d like to take — but haven’t been able to? As a teen I took plenty of risks. I bet you did, too. Crossing the traffic…
Motivations… Elusive Pleasures: Aging with Erroneous Beliefs 12 Jun 20171 Sep 2018 Last week I wrote about sprinkler heads. Why would anyone stop to read about sprinkler heads? Because it’s really about pleasure, and adapting to changes that block pleasure. Maybe…
Motivations… Elusive Pleasures: Sprinklers in the Garden of Life 4 Jun 20171 Sep 2018 Comfortably settling into my spot on the back porch for Sunday morning coffee, I notice it. It doesn't feel quite right. Something is missing. What is it? The cushions and…
Poetry… Passing 13 Dec 201420 Mar 2016 Untimely for we who stay, Torn in sore lament-- Time and distance Ne'er to be breached again; Not from our doing. Resigned unto eternity Or waiting to be joined againContinue…
Global Issues… Has Anybody? 24 Aug 201422 Mar 2016 "Has anybody told you today?" "Well, just in case, I'm telling you again: I love you." It was his trademark; his brand, calling card. If you saw Mickey, you…
Attempts at Humor… ROFLMAO 10 Jul 2014 I can't remember the last time I actually rolled on the floor, laughing my ass off. Maybe that would explain the slight but ever so definite widening of this writer's…
Not the Sort of Things People Talk About Reblog of my Daughter’s Amazing Post Today 10 Feb 2014 You've read here about my daughter a bit, and you've seen some of my daughter's photography. Now, be blown away with her most recent post: http://theopenbench.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-yellow-brick-road.html She is amazing. I love…
Blog Events… Hope, Joy, and. . . Chores? A Blog Event! 17 Sep 201326 Apr 2014 Surfing around WordPress and the blogging communities, one occasionally stumbles upon a pearl of great price. Pearls that delight the soul, engender camaraderie and inspire creative joy! One of the…
Motivations Birth of a Blog: Heart to Heart 24 May 201326 Apr 2014 Somewhere around my fiftieth birthday I started thinking seriously about what I could still achieve in the fifteen to twenty years I had left in the work force, and hoping…
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