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Take a picture
I receive so few handwritten letters anymore, probably because nobody has time to write them. I can text or email so why bother with pen and paper and who even sell stamps? My mom-in-law does it weekly which makes me appreciate the fact I am watching a dying art form from a front-row seat. Now…
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Staying neutral
I have been doing reasonably well cutting back on my news viewing; mostly local with only enough national to start shaking my head, because that’s my cue to turn the channel. Since local news is primarily weather, sprinkled with our news I’ve thought it the safer choice until recently. Cottonwood Heights is a affluent upper-middle…
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Melanoma
If you are fair-skinned (i.e normally white), have freckles and even a hint of red-hair, you are more susceptible to some form of skin cancer. This is a fact of course, but after the fact for me. As a kid I was always envious of anyone with a tan. It seemed like some people were…
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Yellowstone Park and COVID
My wife says it’s my happy place and she is right. My first visit was at 10-years-old with my best friend and his grandparents in their Airstream. I had never been away from home before and a trip that was supposed to take 3 weeks lasted 3 months. It was an experience every kid should…
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Hitting a wall
Results? What results? As I write this, I am waiting for my COVID test results. I was informed Monday morning by our youngest that his minor business partner had tested positive so I and my wife need to get tested. Last week he had helped me tow our Airstream to service. Since we are using…
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Independence Day
Whatever your opinion, our freedom of speech is our greatest birthright. I hate to admit it but for most of my adult life I have taken my freedoms for granted. I am certainly grateful for all the rights I enjoy but because it was always there, much like a sunrise or electricity, it was a…
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Kidney stone interruption.
I put the world on pause; if that’s even possible… Since starting this blog, I made a commitment to myself to document a week at a time. I needed to challenge myself and not get lazy or inconsistent. My thought was if I forced myself to produce every week it would become habit. The difficulty…
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Elephant in the room
Looking forward to getting away Discrimination has been part of our culture my entire life. Sadly it has continued mostly unchecked and therefore perpetuated throughout our history becoming so common it seemed invisible. Sometimes the arrests were particularly brutal and the resulting outrage gained the usual “15 minutes of fame” but then faded away like…
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Tumultuous
Be grateful. The dictionary says “disruptive,” “troubled,” “disorderly’ or “turbulent”. Personally, it was all that and one more word, “inspiring.” The way the protests started here in Salt Lake City were frightening but understandable. We have been under the cloud of COVID-19 for 3 months along with all the obligatory fear-mongering that goes with it.…
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