MY RETIREMENT PLAN A quote from a retirement money expert: “”We’ve learned that people make many mistakes, and particularly, sadly, less educated and poorer people tend to make worse mistakes.” I was on a site today that allows comments and I was shocked how many commenters got Social Security facts wrong. Its no wonder, Social Security is a …
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GUEST POST from Don – Bring It Back
BRING IT BACK Some might think I’m a Luddite. Nope. I’m logical and realistic. To prove it I will list several things which were far better or cheaper before modern tech. For instance, phones worked incredibly well before cell towers. Pick up the receiver and dial a number and it worked. No swiping a pattern, no facial recognition or thumbprint …
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SPECIAL GUEST POST from DON – WHY THE SHEPHERDS
WHY THE SHEPHERDS?A Christmas Monologue We talked among ourselves. Good News! Indeed this was the greatest of all news. We met an angel. We saw the baby. We found the solution to everything. One or two thought the baby born would be king, but that is nonsense. Kings are not born in stables, are they? Further, if anyone was to be king …
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GUEST POST from Don – Intentional Errors
INTENTIONAL ERRORS 1. Nature has this headline: “Five years of COVID vaccines: how a breakthrough created a public-health crisis.” Unfortunately, they misidentified the issue on purpose. They say that the “messaging” about the COVID vaccine caused some people to move away from vaccines altogether. The article claims that those who had the most accurate data should have been …
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GUEST POST from Don – When You Are An Adult
WHEN YOU ARE AN ADULT “WHEN DO YOU STOP BEING A GIRL, AND WHO GETS TO DECIDE?” – Headline from “The Face.” The article topic is really about film making. OK. But it raises a significant issue for America. When does a boy or girl become a man or woman? In one state you can’t be left alone at …
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GUEST POST from Don – Pesticide Exposure
PESTICIDE EXPOSURE What is the OPPOSITE of pesticide exposure? Toxic insect exposure. More children died in the 1800s from insect infestations in foods than died in the 1900s from pesticide exposures from farm foods. Insect feces, eggs, crop disease from burrowing insect larvae, etc., created a food nightmare in the 1800s. No one ate an apple in the dark. No …
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GUEST POST from Don – Don’t Panic
DON’T PANIC Every day the “news” has “the sky is falling” stories. Write them down! Keep a journal. In 6 months, when you go back and read what they wrote you will find it did NOT happen. You’ll find more joy just ignoring the “doom and gloom.” PENNIES. “Pennies are going away!! Gasp!!” No. Don’t worry! Several other countries …
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GUEST POST from Don – “The Best Is Yet” (part 5)
“THE BEST IS YET” by Donald Whelpley, ©️2025 One of the widows at church was making a pest of herself. Richard wasn’t interested. She was VERY interested and said so in every way she could. Richard had volunteered to lead a Sunday morning Bible study on the Epistles. Of course, the widow showed up … as did several others who …
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GUEST POST from Don – “The Best Is Yet” (part 4)
“THE BEST IS YET” by Donald Whelpley, ©️2025 Richard knew, to quote Arthur C. Brooks, “the secret to happiness isn’t falling in love; it’s staying in love.” He had for most of his adult life. Sadly and unfortunately, that relationship ended naturally, as all “forever” relationships do, through the death of one’s spouse. Then what? You can’t put the …
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GUEST POST from Don – Marble Jar
MARBLE JAR Have you seen the video? Well known and respected, Dr. Brené Brown talks about the time her daughter was stunned by the betrayal by a “friend.” Dr. Brown developed the “Marble Jar Theory” of trust. She says that trust “builds slowly, ‘a marble at a time.’ Every time a friend keeps a promise, remembers something important, or …
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