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Sunday, May 4, 2025

The Washington Post | The Fall of a Once Great Newspaper

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  Democracy Dies in Darkness      This is the slogan The Washington Post began using in 2017, four years after Jeff Bezos purchased the fail...
Thursday, May 1, 2025

6 More Working Days Until Retirement

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  I’ve been on the insurance business since June 9, 1980.  For some reason can’t recall, so took extra classes and graduated with my BA at t...
Monday, April 21, 2025

Contemplating the Legacy of Pope Francis

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  I was a child of the 1960’s, Vatican 2, the Vietnam war, the women’s movement, a shift in the fabric of American society.  Priests and nun...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

America Thrived for 150 Years Without A Safety Net

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  This photograph depicts my ancestors more than 100 years ago. They were farmers, living on their land in Southern  Indiana without electri...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Does Anyone Really Understand Their Political Arguments ?

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  I must admit that I troll the mind numbing comments that people write who believe they are brilliant, insightful, common sense posters to ...
Sunday, April 13, 2025

Troglodytes Torch Pennsylvania Governor’s Home

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 What had become of American society when some troglodyte thinks it is just fine & dandy to set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mans...
Saturday, April 12, 2025

Twenty Working Days Until Retirement

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  I can’t believe I only have 20 more working days until retirement from my position as an AVP Executive Claim Director at one of the larges...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

Thirty More Working Days Until Retirement

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  When I made the decision to retire, I was ambivalent about how much notice would be appropriate. I’ve been with my employer over 23 years....
Sunday, March 23, 2025

What it means to be Libertarian

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  Recently, I’ve had posters on social media comment that I cannot be a true Libertarian if I do not accept the concept that biological male...
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Making the Decision to Retire

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  Making the decision to retire wasn’t easy. It was a struggle to determine if the time is right, if I’d saved enough money to live the life...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

I’ve Decided To Retire | May 9, 2025!

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  This was me a year ago, March 2024, celebrating my dad’s 92nd birthday. Since that time, we’ve lost my father-in-law, my aunt, my mother-i...
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Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Disrespect For Our Democratic Procss

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 I have not always been a supporter of Donald Trump.However, he is a far superior representative of the USA than our former incompetent, men...
Saturday, February 22, 2025

DOGE, Do-nothing Congress, Trump & Entertainment

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  I have lived just outside the Washington, DC beltway for more than 30 years in suburban Maryland and Virginia. For several years I commute...
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Sunday, February 9, 2025

Lockerbie with Colin Firth on Peacock

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  My reaction to the first two episodes of Lockerbie, starring Colin Firth, was visceral. December 21, 1988 Libyan operatives smuggled explo...
Sunday, January 26, 2025

After Years of Exploring BedLinens~ It’s Cozy Earth

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  I e spent years looking for the perfect sheets that satisfy the disparate requirements of my spousal unit and me. If I were only concerned...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Looking Forward to New Adventures

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  2025 may be a turning point. I’ve reached a place where I’m yearning for new adventures, the next phase of life, another reinvention. Afte...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

Moving Forward in 2025

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  After a heartbreaking 2024, Todd and I have decided to celebrate life on 2035. There is no magic formula. It is one minute at a time, one ...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

A Farewell to 2024

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  Major losses of loved ones in 2024 caused me to reevaluate how I want to spend the next chapter of my life. Originally, I’d contemplated w...
Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Friends Are Family

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  2024 has been the end of an era. My dear Daddy left us the end of September, a man larger than life. We also experienced the loss of my hu...
Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Our First Christmas as Orphans

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  I know I’ve been fortunate to have my dad and my in-laws in my life  for as long as I have. Many people do not have such good fortune. But...
Friday, December 20, 2024

Bittersweet Holidays

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  2024 has been a transitional year. Between March 31st and the end of September we lost my father-in-law,  my Aunt Virginia, my mother-in -...
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

First Thanksgiving After Losing All Our Parents

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  Melancholy is the word of the week. I feel melancholy, defined in part as pensive reflection or contemplation, depression of spirits.  Tho...
Saturday, October 19, 2024

Evidence of Life After Death

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  My dad left us on September 22nd. He joined our mother who had departed this world nearly 8 years previously in December 2016. While I’ve ...
Sunday, September 22, 2024

Mourning My Father, Richard B. Copeland

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  My father, Richard Bruce Copeland, departed this earthly life this morning. He was born on March 18, 1932, to Lawrence French and Blanche ...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Saying Goodbye to Loved Ones

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  This past Saturday we celebrated the life of my mother-in-law, Janice Ann Harrington, pictured left with my father-in-law,  Norm Harringto...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Listening to the Rain & Contemplating Next Stages of Life Considering Government Misadventures

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  My 92 year old father has now been diagnosed with Stage 5 Kidney Disease. His kidneys no longer function. The US government will not allow...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Grieving Loses

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  https://www.wagleyfuneralhomes.com/obituaries/Janice-Harrington-5/#!/TributeWall This is the last photo of my mom and my mother in law tog...
Monday, July 29, 2024

Why I Stopped Caring About The Olympics

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  During my youth and early adulthood, my family members and I would gather around the moderately sized television in the kitchen and eagerl...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Musings on my 65th Birthday

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  Today is my 65th birthday. It seems impossible to comprehend the passage of so many years. Where did the time go? How did 65 years fly by ...
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Sunday, June 30, 2024

Time To Invoke The 25th Amendment

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  If the Biden family is too much filled with hubris, entitlement, blind ambition and narcissism to convince Joe Biden to withdraw from the ...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Hesitant About Retirement Because I Like Stuff

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I am ready to retire; however, I still have challenges resisting the accumulation of more stuff. I love shoes, handbags, accessories, home g...
Sunday, June 23, 2024

What Happened to the American Work Ethic?

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  My parents retired from reaching elementary school in 1992 after decades of service to the Cass County, Indiana Public School System. They...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

House of the Dragon in the Year of the Dragon

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  Dragons fascinate me. I moved to Taipei in the Year of the Dragon. During my years living in Asia I collected dragons. The mythology in Gr...
Monday, June 17, 2024

I’ve been writing this blog for 12 years!

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  I’ve just realized I’ve been writing this blog for 12 years! It started as an emotional outlet. It evolved into a diary  Wow! The trajecto...
Wednesday, June 5, 2024

The Continuing Gifts of Al Anon~ Years Into Recovery

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  I’ve not lived with an alcoholic or addict since 2004; however, the tools I learned in Al Anon continue to give me the strength, hope and ...
Monday, June 3, 2024

Some Old Fashioned Values Should Be Taught Again

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  This photo shows me with my 92 year old Dad. I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. There was no such thing as a helicopter parent, excuses for...
Saturday, June 1, 2024

Find Peace Within Yourself in Times of Turmoil

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 A few weeks ago I visited my 92 year old father in Logansport, Indiana. I know that I’m fortunate to be able to spend time with my dad. We’...
Thursday, May 30, 2024

The Demise of Civility, Honor, Integrity & Collegiality

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  Maybe the tide will turn. Perhaps disgust at the weaponization of the legal system for political manipulation will cause Americans to stop...
Tuesday, May 7, 2024

May 2024~ Columbia Protests | Trump Trial | The Met Gala ~ It Is All Tawdry

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Echo Year of the Dragon Scarf   The Chinese Year of the Dragon has brought New York City to new levels of tawdry train wrecks that cause muc...