Category: Writing
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The Gift of Sunrise
(Photos by A Curious Introvert) In the magical hour of the morning as nighttime fades and the moon slips away to bring forth the gift of another day and a magnificent sunrise on the horizon, we are given the opportunity to witness beauty and start afresh. There is no guarantee that the sunrise that greets…
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Summer Memories of Enjoying Life on Two Wheels
(Photos by A Curious Introvert) The other day Gabby and I were on a beautiful summer morning bike ride and a feeling of mid-life bike nostalgia swept over me and I began to remember all the wonderful summer moments spent on two wheels over my lifetime. The earliest memories are of my first bicycle, which…
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Baseball Paradise at the Great American Ball Park
(Photos by A Curious Introvert) There is a saying about finding a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and after a weekend trip to Cincinnati to watch Bryce Harper and the Washington Nationals play the Cincinnati Reds at the Great American Ball Park, there should be a saying about finding baseball paradise…
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Musings About Close-Minded Parenting of My Yorkie
I recently read an opinion column entitled “Free-range children vs. close-minded parenting” by Mitch Albom of the Detroit Free Press that made me question if I was a free-range or close-minded parent. It appears free-range parents believe their children should be able to walk home alone from a park and close-minded parents believe children should…
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Musings about the 1980’s and Generation X
Generation X – “From everything we know about them, they’re savvy, skeptical and self-reliant; they’re not into preening or pampering, and they just might not give much of a hoot what others think of them or whether others think of them at all.” (pewresearch.org – Paul Taylor and George Gao) Once the 2015 NCAA March…
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Sunday Morning Bookstore Memory
Life is filled with events and situations that create perfect memories that if you are lucky enough you have the opportunity to experience more than once. Some of the memories created may be very simple ones like a meal at your favorite restaurant that is perfect every visit, revisiting your special vacation spot every year,…
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Jigsaw Puzzles of Life
I recently completed a 1,000 piece puzzle of a French Village and as I began taking the puzzle apart and putting the pieces back in the box, I sat staring at the puzzle pieces and began to think about how much our lives our similar to a jigsaw puzzle. By my late forties I have…
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Sunday Morning Bicycle Ride in the Fall
Starting in mid-August I begin to wait for all of the wonderful things that fall brings. It starts with college and pro football, fall fashion magazines, the new fall television shows, apple cider and donuts, crisp mornings and evenings, breaking out the hoodies and fall boots, snuggling under the blankets and the changing color of…
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