This week I’ve celebrated several highs and am thankful for them.  Some of them are very personal. I enjoyed shopping with my Nancy for new furniture. As she approaches her fortieth birthday next week, she has turned her focus to improvements to her home. She has refinanced her mortgage, a very wise move. She will own her home much sooner. She’s way ahead of her parents who have never “burned a mortgage.” God willing, she will have other options because…..

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I’ve been away from writing my blog for a while. Life has intervened.

Have I been writing? Oh, yes. Since I last wrote, I have endured several life-events, as I call them, so I need to journal about them.

First, I submitted a short story, I think my best one, to a competition. It was rejected because I used lyrics from two meaningful songs: “Send in the Clowns,” by Stephen Sondheim, and “Sournds of Silence,” by Paul Simon. They were…..

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