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Vertigo

I’m not sure when I discovered I developed vertigo.  It may have been the annual task of cleaning the chimney the wood stove used.  The Chimney was at the end of an addition of an old farm house, my ex-wife now owns. That addition was two stories on one side and three stories on the other. […]

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Retirement

April 1, 2015 will be my last day as an employee. I will be resigning or retiring from my day job at Keith’s. No more sales calls, no more trying to remember the SKU’s, no more unloading trucks in rain, no more regular pay checks. I will miss my coworkers. This is a freeing moment […]

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Helping my daughter and family move

March 11  – 14, 2015 My cell phone rings and from the ring tone I can tell it is from my daughter who lives in Massachusetts.   She rarely calls. She sounds hesitant to tell me that she is moving. They got tired of living in a loft apartment in a renovated  tobacco barn. Her last month’s propane bill was $900 […]

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Protected: A mixed Day

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Facing the Inevitable

A quote from Oliver Sacks, who found out he had terminal cancer, sits with me a while. It will fester, morph and maybe instigate a change inside me.  “… I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential. I must focus on myself, my work and my friends. I shall […]