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Klutz or Age?

Doesn’t really matter, they both suck. I know I can blame most of my occasional wobbliness and balance issues on my back surgeries. It doesn’t rear its ugly head often, but when it does, it comes in a way that I am either embarrassed or irritated at myself. I haven’t fallen in a long time,…

Pain

I was thinking the last couple of mornings, when was the last time I had no pain? Would it ever be possible that it isn’t something I wake with, take a first step with, bend with, reach with, and even sit with? It has become such a pervasive aspect of my life that, at times,…

What If…?

I think the most recurring question throughout my life has been what if? What if, is another way of questioning whether you’ve really met your full potential. I don’t care what it is, did I really do everything I could to reach the best I could be? Of course, there are many things I did…

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Best Days

The older I get, the more I find myself trying to define my life. I don’t really mean what was my purpose. I figured that out many years ago. I knew I would never live a life glamourous by nature, but feel I certainly served a purposeful life in many areas. I lived a life…

A Retirement Recoup

Every once in a while, I have the need for a day. You know, a day is when you take a day just for yourself and kind of get your mind straight and your body healed. When I was working, we referred to them as mental health days. When I was working shiftwork, it really…

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What I Miss

As you get older, you begin missing things you either once could do because of physical capability or miss it due to innocence you had as a kid. Might even be from naivety, I know there were plenty of things I didn’t understand when younger that I do now. Probably what I hate most is…

Making It Happen

Making it happen. A simple statement of a matter of fact nature. Yet also one of the hardest things to make yourself do. First you have to define what it is. It for me, for the longest of time, has been to become a writer. This blog is a minor attempt to fulfill that dream….