I am just so amazed at the dedication of the residents that volunteer to teach us any thing you could ever imagine. I understand there are now close to 2000 activities in the Villages. In most cases, no cost to the participants and all run by volunteers, and I have to say very dedicated volunteers, as they […]
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The Villages did it again…
New Year’s Eve Sean and I were on our way to the Bowling Alley, our silence was broken with Sean asking what fingers do I put in the bowling ball? You’re asking me? I hadn’t bowled in over 40 years, and even though I don’t remember a lot lately, I specifically remember the last time […]
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Happy New Year means getting serious with my Blog, it also means staying on my diet, and of course exercising, planning the long awaited trip to Ireland, and also Colorado….see there are some happy things to look forward to and then there are those New Year’s resolutions that just keep coming up year after year after […]
Read the rest of this entry »Discovering the secret to retirement….
My sister Jane from California was visiting recently, and she like myself is retired, yet is involved in different projects relating to her profession. As we were discussing retirement, she said what she disliked the most was that things she fit into her day prior to retirement, such as shopping, washing clothes, cleaning, dentist & doctor appointments, getting a hair […]
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It’s amazing that sometimes when we really reach back into our memory bank, we can actually feel the emotions we had at different happenings in our life. I specifically remember how I felt the day I got my social security number and my working papers. I was 16 years old and in my mind I had left […]
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We are never too old to learn, we just need to have someone sitting at our computer doing it for us, and telling us click here and click there. We write down the directions, and as long as we follow them (which is a problem) we do it. On a suggestion from my daughter-in-law Laura, […]
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