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Another goodbye
I’ve been sitting on this for a while, processing. As we get older, you think it would get easier, the recognition that we are all mortal and will die. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t get any easier. Every goodbye is hard; they never get easy. Our good friend Diane passed away on Dec 20, 2025. She
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So long and thanks for all the fish
We visited family over Thanksgiving on the East Coast and flew Southwest to get there. This was our last open seating flight. I had thoughts. Dear Southwest You were great for so long. I loved flying with you. It was so easy and offered phenomenal fares. You went above and beyond to help passengers get
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If It’s Tuesday, It Must Be Ireland
That’s an obscure reference to an old comedy, but it also describes our 16 day whirlwind tour of Ireland. We spent our first two days exploring Dublin on our own and recovering from jet lag (it was a long flight from LAX to London then London to Dublin and I can’t sleep on planes). We
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It’s a new year, so time for a new post
2025 has arrived like a shitstorm. LA seems to be burning up, and though the fires are far away from us, thank goodness, the emotional impact is still there. It’s like a collective holding of our breath waiting for the other shoe to drop as our world is on fire. But life, as always, goes
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Semi-annual semi-adventure update
It’s been a while since I did something other than grouse about my injuries here. I am still in physical therapy getting over all of the various secondary issues I created for myself by breaking my elbow. Next on the hit parade: at long last physical therapy for my back! Oh, and this blog and
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The quest continues
Now that 2023 is behind us (good riddance, I say!), it’s time to officially continue my quest to figure out what the heck I want to do with myself as a retired person. I spent so much of 2023 injured and recovering that I didn’t really have time for anything else. As 2024 begins, I’m
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