Category: Personal
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Remembering Gracie
Remembering my friend.
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Ich habe noch einen Volkswagen gekauft
I bought a new car, a hot 2024 VW Jetta GLI with a six-speed manual transmission.
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Bespectacled again
I’ve switched back to glasses from contacts, gaining comfort and improved vision, despite minor hassles.
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Sometimes you don’t know when you’re doing something for the last time
Because none of us has a working crystal ball, we can’t know when something we’ve done will turn out to have been the last time we did it.
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TikTok 2
Thanks to the several of you who expressed concern that I’m on TikTok, given all of the negative press it gets. I’m sure there’s truth in that press. My opinion is that I’m only slightly more at risk of Bad Things Happening through TikTok than I am through Facebook, which I use extensively. There are…
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A rising TikTok star
I’m experimenting with TikTok.
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A year without Mom
Memories of Mom, one year after she passed away.
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At last, another luna moth
A sighting of a rare moth that lives for a week after getting its wings.
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My membership in the Society of Three Speeds has been revoked
I finally bought a brand new bike. My first since about 1993!
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I could easily have stayed single but then I would never have seen Kylemore Abbey
Caring for my wife through travel.
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Word reached me last week that my uncle Dennis, my mom’s youngest brother, passed away July 31. He was the last of my mother’s generation. When I was a small child, Dennis used to stop by the house from time to time. He was good with my brother and I — he really knew how…
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56
Reflections on my 56th birthday, which is tomorrow.