If you’ve been following this blog, you know I’ve kind of disappeared.

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 I think short thoughts.  Maybe it’s because I’m tall.  All through my school years I was the tallest in my class (and had the biggest, uh, feet).  A long-time-ago friend, who was maybe 5′ tall, drove the most humongous car one could buy.  And there I was, all 5’10″ of me, cramming myself into a small car. Read More…

HOW BAD CAN IT GET?

• Jobless, and unable to feed and clothe your children? 
• Homeless?  Broke and evicted?
• Stuck in a bad relationship?

I didn’t pluck these examples out of thin air.  I lived them.  I was not a victim.  I created each of these situations for myself by the choices I made. Read More…

And how do we find it?   These questions are as old as . . .   Well, if we ask John Q. Caveman, he might answer Who cares?  I’m too busy trying to kill a dinosaur so I can feed my family!  Could be, for him, happiness lies in making that kill. Read More…

Yesterday was really too hot to work outdoors for very long.  I totalled three hours in the gardens before caving in and retreating to the air-conditioned comfort of my travel trailer.

At 6:30 pm I figured it was cool enough to go out for a few hours and work (it was down to 88° and the sun was low in the sky).  But, as fortune would have it, I found a group of campground staff sitting outside our restaurant enjoying their glasses of wine. . . Read More…