Category Archives: Daily Living

Dept. of Alternative Facts: Relativity

Posted on May 3, 2022 by hermitsdoor

Relativity (n): Einstein’s law that had something to do with time, the equation of which I would have to look up on Wikipedia, but I’m too busy to bother doing and I could not interpret it anyway We have recently … Continue reading →

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Dept. of Alternative Facts: Retired

Posted on April 28, 2022 by hermitsdoor

retire (v): to put at rest; to stop working; (adv): a state of non-productive activity; to be in leisure Many of my readers know, or have figured out, that we recently retired from work. Thirty-five years on my part; forty-one … Continue reading →

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Kindling the Fires of Friendship

Posted on November 6, 2019 by hermitsdoor

On my last day with my mother (sorry, readers, I wrote this a week ago, but have not been on-line since getting home…), she wanted to visit a college friend, who lives a few towns north toward San Francisco.  The … Continue reading →

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Merry-Go-Round

Posted on October 29, 2019 by hermitsdoor

As I have mentioned in this series of posts, one of my objectives for this trip to visit my parents was to be my mother’s transportation for the days that I was at home.   She had decided to stop … Continue reading →

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Expiration Date

Posted on October 27, 2019 by hermitsdoor

Everything has an ending these days.  By the folklore of computer technology (e.g. built in obsolescence, 18 month life span, etc.) this computer has lived several lives since we purchased it for our trip to South Africa in 2012.  I noticed … Continue reading →

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Generations Crossing

Posted on October 25, 2019 by hermitsdoor

Our generation is called “The Sandwich Generation”, for the implied dual responsibilities of rearing children and caring for aging parents.  I had not pursued the former, and accepted the later as an eventual duty of a son for parents.  If … Continue reading →

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Life in the Slow Lane

Posted on October 25, 2019 by hermitsdoor

My older brother is my parents’ primary care provider these days.  According to our conversations, he has coffee and breakfast with our mother, then heads over to the assisted living facility where our father lives to sit with him during … Continue reading →

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