Category: Personal journey of an aging boomer
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gratitude
In a recent post, I mentioned a coaching class I was attending. In this class, students (agents) are given weekly, personal assignments, designed to help them grow, dynamically and financially. In many ways, the advice, or required curriculum is doing what you already know you must do to be successful, difference being that in this…
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be grateful—or else!
I have been given an opportunity to attend a coaching class, specifically for Coldwell Banker agents. It is a seven-week course that began last week and was made available to only 20 agents in an office with 185 agents. Those chosen were generally new to the industry, but not exclusively. The thing in common was…
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lost coffee cup or just the beginning
I pay more attention to medical information than I ever did before. Mainly because the older I get, the more mortal I feel. Aches and pains take on a more sinister attitude because I did nothing in particular to cause them. Sometimes it’s nothing more than psychosomatic, made terminal through WebMD and too many pharmaceutical…
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Kinks
Every Friday, I get a much-anticipated email from AllMusic. AllMusic is an online music database that notes all new music releases from the previous week and emails those new entries. Music is by genre, so I can dive into whatever mood suits me at the time. Since it is set to show every new release,…
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1950 Census. Too spoiled to wait?
Depending on your age, you may have never looked at an old census. Maybe that should be rephrased to say you have never wanted to or needed to look at an old census. I didn’t. It was more a novelty than a necessity. However, If you are a regular on Ancestry.com, Family Search, or any…
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I wondered what happened to him.
Glancing over my Facebook feed today, I noticed a post from my high school group, West High Class of 73. It said “We have lost a dear member of our class.” Included was the obituary for Elizabeth Connie Kelson. I didn’t recognize her. The fact we graduated 49 years ago could explain that but I…
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Hard to stay neutral some times.
With Covid numbers through the roof, Salt Lake County imposed a 30-day mask mandate. Like most, I shrugged my shoulders. Currently I wear a mask in crowds anyway; mandate not needed. However, it is a flashpoint for some so I expected a fight. The first day of the mandate my son Spencer and I went…
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Planning a little trip.
In November 2020, after graduating from real estate school, and being pretty much “done” with the pandemic, I started an AirBNB search for properties, in or around Key West. The general idea was to stay for a week or so during Valentine’s Day 2021. I would be retired from Career A, and not yet full-steam…
a life always under construction 