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Snow and Approaching Christmas
My first glance out the window this morning revealed silently falling snow. The colors of the landscape were muted, with the sheen of white dominating everywhere. The pines, green yesterday, were fringed in white, the greyness of the sky turning … Continue reading
A Bit of Americana: Estate Sales
I’d been to estate sales from time to time (those sales designed to empty the homes of the recently deceased, often organized by professional dealers), but I’d never been involved in one for a member of my own family. An … Continue reading
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Tagged commercial, death, distribution, family, inheritance
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An Ongoing Saga – this time, dementia
A year or so after my father died in 1994, my mother took up with a man whose wife had been her bosom pal prior to her death not long after my father’s. My mother and her partner have been … Continue reading
On Adjusting to Aging in America
In 2006, at the age of 62, I made an arrangement with my full time employer (in Indonesia) to go onto a 3/4 time arrangement. My thinking was that this would help allow me to adjust to eventual retirement more … Continue reading
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Tagged age, Bogor, emotion, family, Indonesia, journal, retirement, USA, work
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