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Meandering Musings — 142 episodes

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Title
1

More Than Tea

2

A Night in a Different World

3

Why I Travel

4

My Brief Career as an Illegal Uber Driver

5

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

6

A Restaurant Without Dessert?

7

A Tale of Two DMVs

8

Women’s Roller Derby — More Than a Comeback

9

Eighty-Two Years Before My First Pawn Shop

10

Why Are Redheads Different?

11

Stay in Motion

12

Late to the Chamber

13

Three Ways to Tell Your Age

14

Number 14,542

15

Relationships Matter More Than Ever

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

The Day I Got Number 97

20

Steroids, Gyms, and Why I’m Really There

21

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

22

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

23

When Did We Start Padlocking Ice Cream?

24

A Small Moment in the Underwear Aisle

25

McDonald’s Refused to Take My Order — Seriously.

26

The Lost Art of the Handkerchief

27

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

28

Bhutan and the Pursuit of Happiness

29

Kelsey’s Bhutan Diary

30

Prayer Flags in Bhutan

31

What Can America Learn from Bhutan?

32

Bhutan’s Hot Stone Baths: A Healing Tradition

33

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

34

Arrows & Joy: Archery, Bhutan’s Soul Sport

35

Why I Came to Bhutan

36

Listening to Lech Wałęsa

37

The Day PB&J Changed My Life

38

Biking to Costco? Who Does That?

39

Thirty Minutes? You’ve Got to Be Kidding

40

Better Late, Still Beautiful

41

Bug Assault

42

Dandelions

43

Pickleball: From Backyard Game to National Obsession

44

Holy Cow, DQ – We Need to Talk

45

The Jar, the Loft, and a Very Human Victory

46

When the Body Whispers… and Then Shouts

47

Pickleball and the Power of Fifteen

48

Can We All Get Behind Belonging?

49

A Reunion to Remember—And Reflect Upon

50

“Where Everybody Knows Your Name” — My Cheers Dilemma

51

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

52

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

53

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

54

Art in the Open, A Day with Desert X

55

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

56

Where the Eye Becomes Art: A Hidden Gem in Copenhagen

57

A Love Letter to Herring

58

In Amsterdam, Bikes Rule — and Sometimes Bloom

59

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

60

My Life in Cotton: The Quilt of Me

61

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

62

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

63

Life Lessons from Turtles: Embracing a Turtle Mindset

64

Donald Trump — the Neville Chamberlain of our Time

65

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

66

The $2 Bill

67

Rediscovering the Root Beer Float

68

Rubber Duckies

69

Embarrassed

70

Joy Does Not Keep Score

71

What We Can Learn from History

72

Winston Churchill’s Sesquicentennial

73

The Power of Pilgrimages

74

The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth

75

Lynching in America

76

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

77

Time With the Grandchildren

78

Christmas Lights

79

Re-gifting

80

A Very Unusual Saturday

81

How To Fix Obesity In The United States

82

Obesity

83

Gladiators

84

Middle Names

85

Daisy Daisy

86

The Good Humor Man

87

Pan Handler

88

Car Detail

89

Shooting Your Age

90

Track Town USA

91

Charm City

92

Our Own Jaws-like Experience 50 Years Later

93

Gus Walz

94

Ice Cream Day

95

Hiking in The Sonoran Desert in the Daytime

96

Hiking In The Dark

97

The 50th Anniversary of Jaws

98

Playing It Forward

99

The Golden Bachelor

100

124 degrees

101

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

102

Loneliness

103

Thelma

104

A Reservation

105

Carrot Cake Pancakes

106

A Nickname

107

Penalty

108

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

109

Never Having Been To New York City

110

Cabaret

111

Sean Penn and Ukraine

112

Bruce's Booster Seat

113

A Cinnamon Roll

114

There Is More to The Story

115

A Shoeshine

116

Massage Chair

117

Getting Off The Grid

118

The Cost Of A Glass Of Water

119

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

120

How We Value A Good Teacher

121

How To Tell You're Getting Old

122

Mmm Boy Almond Joy

123

A View Of Gaza, 60 years earlier

124

Getting Ghosted

125

Date Shake

126

The Highest Gas Price In The United States

127

A Really Good Morning

128

Taking The Time To Think

129

The Help

130

Newspapers

131

Finger Bowls

132

Hotel Lobbies

133

The Value Of A Personal Note

134

Peaches

135

Road Kill Cafe

136

Purple Cow

137

Mississippi

138

Halloween

139

Showering Outside

140

A Bad Day

141

Postcards

142

Shock and Awe