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Meandering Musings — 150 episodes

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1

The Green Monster

2

More Than a Building

3

A Great Idea We Should Copy

4

Winston Churchill… and a Rubber Duck

5

What Is It About Apricots?

6

Slowing Down in the Wachau Valley

7

The Names on the Wall

8

Appreciating… Without Enjoying

9

More Than Tea

10

A Night in a Different World

11

Why I Travel

12

My Brief Career as an Illegal Uber Driver

13

I Didn’t Want to Do This. Then I Wrote My Obituary

14

A Restaurant Without Dessert?

15

A Tale of Two DMVs

16

Women’s Roller Derby — More Than a Comeback

17

Eighty-Two Years Before My First Pawn Shop

18

Why Are Redheads Different?

19

Stay in Motion

20

Late to the Chamber

21

Three Ways to Tell Your Age

22

Number 14,542

23

Relationships Matter More Than Ever

24

My First Time at the Denver Stock Show: A City Slicker in Cowboyland

25

From 80 Degrees to 8: A Survival Guide (of Sorts)

26

The Day I Became “Elderly” (Without Being Asked)

27

The Day I Got Number 97

28

Steroids, Gyms, and Why I’m Really There

29

When Cinema Pushes the Heart: Why *La Grazia* Moved Me to Tears

30

The Power of a Simple Thread (That I Refuse to Call a Bracelet)

31

When Did We Start Padlocking Ice Cream?

32

A Small Moment in the Underwear Aisle

33

McDonald’s Refused to Take My Order — Seriously.

34

The Lost Art of the Handkerchief

35

My First Manicure (and Pedicure): A Shock to the System

36

Bhutan and the Pursuit of Happiness

37

Kelsey’s Bhutan Diary

38

Prayer Flags in Bhutan

39

What Can America Learn from Bhutan?

40

Bhutan’s Hot Stone Baths: A Healing Tradition

41

The Tiger’s Nest: A Pilgrimage of Stone, Spirit, and Struggle

42

Arrows & Joy: Archery, Bhutan’s Soul Sport

43

Why I Came to Bhutan

44

Listening to Lech Wałęsa

45

The Day PB&J Changed My Life

46

Biking to Costco? Who Does That?

47

Thirty Minutes? You’ve Got to Be Kidding

48

Better Late, Still Beautiful

49

Bug Assault

50

Dandelions

51

Pickleball: From Backyard Game to National Obsession

52

Holy Cow, DQ – We Need to Talk

53

The Jar, the Loft, and a Very Human Victory

54

When the Body Whispers… and Then Shouts

55

Pickleball and the Power of Fifteen

56

Can We All Get Behind Belonging?

57

A Reunion to Remember—And Reflect Upon

58

“Where Everybody Knows Your Name” — My Cheers Dilemma

59

A Night to Remember: “Good Night, and Good Luck” on Broadway

60

One Surprising Way to Boost Your Health: Turn Up the Heat

61

We Owe Our Children Better: A Personal Call to Reduce America’s National Debt

62

Art in the Open, A Day with Desert X

63

Many, Many, Many: A 101-Degree Friday in the Desert

64

Where the Eye Becomes Art: A Hidden Gem in Copenhagen

65

A Love Letter to Herring

66

In Amsterdam, Bikes Rule — and Sometimes Bloom

67

The Legacy of Bank Vaults: When Security Was Measured in Steel

68

My Life in Cotton: The Quilt of Me

69

Down the Drain: A Sewer Story of Friendship, Infrastructure, and Sludge

70

$800,000 Worth of Beer at My Local Grocery Store

71

Life Lessons from Turtles: Embracing a Turtle Mindset

72

Donald Trump — the Neville Chamberlain of our Time

73

Why I Cry More at 80: A Deep Dive Into the Phenomenon

74

The $2 Bill

75

Rediscovering the Root Beer Float

76

Rubber Duckies

77

Embarrassed

78

Joy Does Not Keep Score

79

What We Can Learn from History

80

Winston Churchill’s Sesquicentennial

81

The Power of Pilgrimages

82

The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth

83

Lynching in America

84

Remembering the Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March on its 60th Anniversary

85

Time With the Grandchildren

86

Christmas Lights

87

Re-gifting

88

A Very Unusual Saturday

89

How To Fix Obesity In The United States

90

Obesity

91

Gladiators

92

Middle Names

93

Daisy Daisy

94

The Good Humor Man

95

Pan Handler

96

Car Detail

97

Shooting Your Age

98

Track Town USA

99

Charm City

100

Our Own Jaws-like Experience 50 Years Later

101

Gus Walz

102

Ice Cream Day

103

Hiking in The Sonoran Desert in the Daytime

104

Hiking In The Dark

105

The 50th Anniversary of Jaws

106

Playing It Forward

107

The Golden Bachelor

108

124 degrees

109

A 5-year old's first major league baseball game

110

Loneliness

111

Thelma

112

A Reservation

113

Carrot Cake Pancakes

114

A Nickname

115

Penalty

116

Another View of The Fabulously Popular 'In N Out' Burger

117

Never Having Been To New York City

118

Cabaret

119

Sean Penn and Ukraine

120

Bruce's Booster Seat

121

A Cinnamon Roll

122

There Is More to The Story

123

A Shoeshine

124

Massage Chair

125

Getting Off The Grid

126

The Cost Of A Glass Of Water

127

You Never Know Who You'll Run Into At The Grocery Store

128

How We Value A Good Teacher

129

How To Tell You're Getting Old

130

Mmm Boy Almond Joy

131

A View Of Gaza, 60 years earlier

132

Getting Ghosted

133

Date Shake

134

The Highest Gas Price In The United States

135

A Really Good Morning

136

Taking The Time To Think

137

The Help

138

Newspapers

139

Finger Bowls

140

Hotel Lobbies

141

The Value Of A Personal Note

142

Peaches

143

Road Kill Cafe

144

Purple Cow

145

Mississippi

146

Halloween

147

Showering Outside

148

A Bad Day

149

Postcards

150

Shock and Awe