Last week here in the ‘burbs of DC, it was still summer hot and humid. I got my Harley back — finally had an electrical ghost fixed, and rode it to work on Friday on a pleasantly sunny and warm day. In fact, Friday my boss and I…
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Monthly Archives: September 2015
Drive, Love, Drive, Love Again
This post appears on Saturday, September 12. An ordinary Saturday for most folks.
For me? This Saturday and tomorrow, Sunday, involves a marriage ceremony then 500 miles. Eh what?
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Don’t Live Regrets: Make It Happen (Part 8)
I call this blog post my “caregiving thread.” I have learned over time that caregiving is internal to my very nature. I don’t know quite how or why, but I have a natural intuitive caregiving gift, so family and friends have observed and told me. This inner caregiving drive and intuition is also something that my twin brother knew about me before I did.
Since my college days, I have been doing one form or another of caregiving for: a) people who experienced tragedies by volunteering with a recognized voluntary organization; b) through active service with a local fire department and rescue squad; c) by helping a cadre of senior pals with home repairs and grocery shopping; and d) through direct caregiving for an uncle, an aunt, my spouse, and now my mother-in-law.
The art of caregiving is something I do… and that makes me, “me.”
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Don’t Live Regrets: Make It Happen (Part 7)
This blog of my life story is about my job situation. This is where “don’t live regrets: make it happen” truly applies. Generally, this is a summary of my years in the first half of my working world.
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Don’t Live Regrets: Make It Happen (Part 6)
This will be among the last of these posts. I can see that they are uninteresting to most folks. Soon I will return to the boots that are the roots of this blog.
Let’s see now, it’s five years later than the period of my last post. Where am I from 1993 to 1998?
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Labor Today
I am taking a short break from my life history…
Why?
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Don’t Live Regrets: Make It Happen (Part 5)
As I continue to relate my life story of my younger years, I wonder how I did it all. I am grateful for youthful energy.
Fast forward five years… I am in a stable full-time job, I just earned my Master’s Degree, my fixer-upper house has been fully renovated, I’m riding my third motorcycle, I have about 30 pairs of boots (10 of those pairs are Fryes), enjoying wearing leather (allegedly for motorcycle riding), and I’m dating. Well, sorta.
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Don’t Live Regrets: Make It Happen (Part 4)
Over the last three blog posts, I have been describing my life story in my younger years. So far, I graduated college with two undergraduate degrees, had a temporary job, and bought a real “fixer-upper” house. Now what? I kept mumbling to myself, “how am I going to afford to have this place fixed to make it habitable by more than mice and roaches?”
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Don’t Live Regrets: Make It Happen (Part 3)
As I continue to reminisce about my younger days graduating high school and going into college then adding a second degree and taking three more semesters to graduate, I think about the downright casual attitude that I had, yet how deep inside I was afraid and worried.
I remember at Christmas the year that I graduated, my twin brother…
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