A travel dream becomes a life-changing journey

A travel dream becomes a life-changing journey: "Work life has a way of putting people in niches. Retirement gives us a way to climb out of those holes and go another direction. This is what my husband Phil and I discovered when we retired in our early 50s.

No longer stuck with who we had become over the years, and not yet ready to yield to being “seniors,” we decided to live our long-held dream of seeing the United States – not just a series of short trips here and there, not just a surface glance at a few important places, but a real, life-changing experience. Along the way, we found much more than we could ever have envisioned."...(Click title link to see entire article.)...

Writing About The No Excuse-We Just Love to Party- Party

Writing About The No Excuse-We Just Love to Party- Party: "Ironically I wrote my original notes for this piece at a Christmas party. I wasn’t feeing particularly Scrooge-ish, neither was I foaming with ebullient Christmas Cheer. In fact, I’d not yet even had a single beer to drink. We had arrived early, it was still daylight out, the sun was not yet past the yard arm, and I had little to do. I wrote some notes in the back of my rapidly expiring calendar."...(Click title link to see entire article.)...

Trash, Sell, or Pack and Keeping Your Marriage Intact

Trash, Sell, or Pack and Keeping Your Marriage Intact: "Getting ready to relocate one’s life location, again, in your sixties, is not a fresh stack of pancakes. It is more like chewing on hockey pucks. This is mid December. In mid October, to beat the Christmas rush, we sent 46 various sized boxes ahead to be stored for our arrival in our new location."...(Click title link to see entire article.)...

How to Plan and Guarantee a Perfect Vacation

How to Plan and Guarantee a Perfect Vacation: "In one word: plan. In a phrase: know yourself and plan. By failing to plan, you plan to fail (to have a perfect vacation). The first step is an honest personal assessment. You have to seriously consider and firmly decide what it is that your mind and body needs from a vacation. Then you have to do it."...(Click title link to see entire article.)...

The Fish Advantage

The Fish Advantage: "While many people enjoy eating fish and other seafood the benefits of just how good it is for you wasn't known until recent years. Since then fish has seen a boost in sales and more and more people are enjoying the benefits of this relatively inexpensive food. Fish can be prepared in so many different ways and can suit even the fussiest person's palette....(Click title link to see entire article.)...
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Rain Washes The Tears Away

Rain Washes The Tears Away: "I wait for days with big heavy drops,

That run streaming down my face.

My hot salty tears hide easily in the cold, … cold flood.

I walk in the rain when I want to remember you."...(Click title link to see entire article.)...