How a trot in Turkey became more of a slog in Istanbul.

May 8, 2025
Istanbul
No one serves their older demographic better than Viking, in my opinion. We’ve taken four Viking river cruises and two ocean cruises and for the most part the...
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10 Comments · Blog, Opinion, Travel

“Talking about my generation”

April 28, 2025
my-generation
People try to put us down (talkin' 'bout my generation)Just because we get around  Things they do look awful cold  I hope I die before I get old --- Why don't...
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6 Comments · Blog, Inspiration, Opinion

Regrets, I’ve had a few

April 15, 2025
no-regrets
Does anyone get out of here without regret for the life we wish we'd lived? Or at least regret for something we didn't do? Life really is a series of opportunity...
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7 Comments · Blog, Inspiration, Opinion

What Pearl Harbor teaches us about war

April 7, 2025
Pearl-Harbor
I'm a pacifist, a position I came to later in life. I can't say I ever really thought about war during my life, even though, yes, in college during the late 1960s I...
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7 Comments · Blog, Opinion, Travel

Random thoughts and potpourri

March 24, 2025
random-thoughts
In and out. We misfits are the ones with the ability to enter grief. Death. Trauma. And emerge. ~ Lidia Yuknavitch. My first thought when I read this was that the...
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6 Comments · Inspiration, Opinion, Soul School, Spirituality

Why I love digging into the past

March 11, 2025
“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”  ~Joan Didion A while ago,...
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3 Comments · Blog, Inspiration, Opinion, Spirituality, Writing

Wabi sabi, kemo sabe

March 4, 2025
wabi-sabi
If I've read one thing about wabi sabi, I've read a hundred in the past five or six years. It's a popular concept found in many forms of Japanese art. Oh, you...
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The day I realized I was not a god

February 25, 2025
not-a-god
I have a god complex. I admit it. I think I know what's best and --if it's something that really matters--- I am not going to be shy about trying to make it...
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How dangerous is Chat GPT?

February 5, 2025
Continuing where I left off with yesterday's post, in which I had asked Chat GPT to write a blog post for me: Imagine a world where all writing and the "thinking"...
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The terrifying power of Chat GPT

February 4, 2025
Chat GPT
A few years ago a friend suggested I let AI write my blog. A non-writer friend. Who obviously had no idea that writing for writers is a means of self expression,...
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9 Comments · Blog, Opinion

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