Thursday 21st September 2022 After a good night’s rest in the Ramada Inn south of Bristol, we decided to head up into South Wales for a few days, and headed to Caerphilly just north of Cardiff the capital of Wales. We had stayed there before mainly because my sister and her husband lived there and …
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GUEST POST from David: UK Vacation, Sept. 2022 – Day 2
Wednesday 20th September 2022. OK then, here we are at Leigh Delamere Services just west of Swindon on the M4 in UK. Last night’s room was in Travelodge a UK chain. It was OK, no worries, clean and tidy etc. First stop this morning was to the food services across the road for some breakfast …
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GUEST POST from David: UK Vacation, Sept. 2022 – Day 1
What follows is the first of a series of posts highlighting the trip of a British ex-pat in the US when he returns to the UK for a vacation. He shares the experiences with us here on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays for the next few weeks. I hope you will enjoy reading them as much …
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GUEST POST from Don: Gravity and Light
GRAVITY AND LIGHT Gravity and light are oddly different yet they are the same. They are the same because, as far as our crude instruments can determine, they travel at exactly the same speed. Gravity bends space and light travels the bends of space. When a star ceases to exist through breaking up (or when …
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GUEST POST from Don: Travel Fun
We like to explore. We like to drive and see the countryside. I suppose that if we were younger, we’d enjoy hiking for the same reason. We saw nothing of note on our last driving tour. Everything was interesting and worth seeing. Nothing was worth driving to see. Yet, when we put the four hours …
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GUEST POST from Don – Fascinating People: Gloria Hartman Doughty
This spring my wife and I were invited to celebrate the 80th birthday of a man in a small group Bible study I attend. We are pleased to know such a keen-thinking gentleman (who, by the way, traveled to England in June to participate in his doctoral graduation…). At his party we met this amazing 95 year …
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GUEST POST from Don: Sadly Magic Words
A Short List of “Sadly Magic” Words Hopefully you were taught and continue to use several “magic” words; words like “Please” and “Thank you.” They are magic because they help others know that you care about them. However, there are several negative “magic” words, too, which continually fail to produce good results. Eliminate or reduce the use …
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GUEST POST from Don: MULBERRIES
The PROBLEM with MULBERRIES (Notice: Read with this in mind…although everything I will say is true, I have my tongue firmly planted in my cheek.) Growing up I had the same good feelings about Mulberry that you had. After all, I had fun singing that song, too. “Here we go ’round the Mulberry bush, the Mulberry bush, …
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A Layman’s Look from Don: Streams of Retirement Income, Supplemental Reading
by Donald Whelpley@ 2022 All rights reserved. Supplemental Reading Years of reading articles on retirement plus eight years of looking through the government’s Social Security website…and just this month I found something SPECIAL that everyone should know. It has to do with continuing to work WHEN you apply for Social Security benefits. APPLYING AT 62. …
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GUEST POST from DON: Climate Change?
Is Climate Change for real? I don’t know. I do know that most of the money our government is spending on this issue is a waste. So, for fun, let’s presume Climate Change is real, just so we can come up with realistic ways of dealing with it (because I know…how could it be otherwise…that everyone buying …
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