Filling Time: TwinLife Empty-Nesting
The next stage of TwinLife
Category: travel
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I have exactly one specialty in the kitchen, and it’s homemade lemonade. My son had put in a request, so I spent part of the week making a couple different varieties. It was also strawberry and rhubarb season, and both showed up in my produce box, so I made some treats, a fresh salad, and…
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Last Thursday I flew home from Walt Disney World. It was my 21st trip. My first trip to Disney was in 1988. My parents, my brother, and I took the sleeper train from the Northeast to Florida. At the time, there were only two parks open: Magic Kingdom and Epcot. Six years later, when I…
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I laughed out loud – literally – at the loaf of bread sitting on the hood of my car. It was so my mom. Almost as soon as I showed up (late) at the 6:15 PM meeting for the reunion concert at my high school, she asked me if I wanted to ride with her…
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I started driving a tractor when I was old enough to sit on my dad’s or grandfather’s lap and take the steering wheel. This skill came in handy when I was older and my dad “let” me mow our backyard – at least the easy, flat part of it. Perhaps because I proved myself capable…
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I’m sitting in an airport, filling time by reflecting on the last week. Until yesterday, I expected to write about how I filled time with my brother, going to the gym, watching Paridisus, continuing to design the thing we have been talking about for nearly two decades. I was staying with him between work events…
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I embarked on an extended trip to the West Coast last week, perhaps blessed by two invitations to speak on two consecutive weekends in California. Because it made sense to visit my brother between visits rather than fly home, I decided to make an adventure of it. Of course, being physically away from work for…
Filling Time: TwinLife Empty-Nesting 