The Memoir has made it. The Memoir is a resident on the Bestsellers list. Memoir writing is taught in your town, and not just at the local college. You even know someone who is working on a memoir, or a scrapbook, or a video, about themselves. The time is now to write your memoir. Your …more

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A few months ago I had lunch with a friend at a local deli and he asked me what I thought of Pickleball. I told him I like dill pickles, sour pickles and even pickled herring but never heard of pickleball. He laughed. Pickleball is not the latest deli delicacy but a game that seems …more

Turning 60 is a big deal, right. It is one of those life stages where looking backward becomes easier than looking forward. My father was 60 when he first started telling me about his boyhood days growing up on a farm near Redding, Iowa. I heard a lot about the farm over the next thirty …more

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As a young teenager growing up in England in the 1970’s, America, for me, meant three things: Movie stars, pancakes with maple syrup and metal mailboxes with little red flags. Maybe it was from watching all those American shows or maybe from reading too many noir detective thrillers, which I devoured. Or perhaps I had …more

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The water brought us cool relief as we floated aimlessly in the pool. It was the middle of April and nearing the end of another fantastic year at Las Palmas, our winter home. We were engaging in the late afternoon ritual of soaking up the Arizona sun while holding court in the middle of the …more

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It’s funny how a holiday destination becomes the place you want to move to and spend your foreseeable future when you least expect it. Arriving in a new country and spending a vacation there can either blind you from the imperfections and struggles of daily life or make you want to grab them and call …more

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Before retiring, many of my more recent jobs and consulting assignments required the use of, or software development for the Internet. The reach of the Web always fascinated me. How else can something you write, record, photograph or video have the potential to be instantly available to hundreds, thousands or even millions of people around …more

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Waiting is life in the meantime. It is not a life on hold or serving a punitive time out (although it usually feels like it). There are many components–daily, I see more. Of these two, I am most sure: Expectancy and Mystery. Expectancy: My definition of expectancy is to look at the world in wonder. Where …more