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Hey good lookin’

No matter how good looking he or she is someone out there is sick and tired of putting up with their shit.

Found in Linda’s Bar & Grill, Chapel Hill N.C.

Posted in Found 50's, Friends and Relationships.


Everything I learned about life I could have learned from Star Trek

Anyone can do Warp 14, but they can’t keep it up for long.

Posted in Found 50's, Life.


And when we go

What would people say about me if I died tomorrow?

We all want to be missed, loved and to have made an impact.

We can but hope the words are not just kind but meaningful and that we made a difference.

Let’s live the way we want to be remembered.

Posted in Friends and Relationships, Life.


From a Lululemon bag seen at the airport …

1. Do one thing a day that scares you
2. That which matters the most should never give way to that which matters the least.

Posted in Found 50's, Life.


Things I’ve learned from things I’ve read.

The bathroom series number 2:

Beauty is only a light switch away.

Perkins Library, Woman’s bathroom, Duke University.

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So, what did you learn from 2010?

As we enter a new year what did we learn from the old one? What do we think of the new one? If we had a “do over” what would it be? Take a moment and make a post at 50wordsorless.com.

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It’s not the years, it IS the mileage

Whatever your age,take care of your physical self. Being 50 means nothing if you are well, but hell on earth if you aren’t and facing more years of pain, inability to live a full or useful life, and are dependent upon others for everything, right down to your diaper changes.

Posted in Life.


Always back up, always …

I upgraded my phone as a test and then I upgraded my wife’s phone.

I lost  her pictures, crashed her email, flushed her apps. I fixed the email, and apps but the photos? While I was  in the Dog House I reflected on the simple advice, “always back up, always …”

Posted in If I had a do over.


Easy to say, hard to do

Our troubled son arrives home today for the holidays. When I asked a friend what I might do to smooth the waves I’m afraid will come she said, “Practice patience and tolerance to gather him back into your family, and remember it is easy to say and hard to do.”

Posted in Children.


On the fear of loss

You should stare the fear of loss in the face, so that the fear of loss loses its power to compromise your integrity.

Sheelagh Whittacker, from the Globe & Mail 2010

Posted in Found 50's, Life.