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Meandering Musings — 133 episodes

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1

Why Are Redheads Different?

2

Stay in Motion

3

Late to the Chamber

4

Three Ways to Tell Your Age

5

Number 14,542

6

Relationships Matter More Than Ever

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

The Day I Got Number 97

11

Steroids, Gyms, and Why I’m Really There

12

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

13

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

14

When Did We Start Padlocking Ice Cream?

15

A Small Moment in the Underwear Aisle

16

McDonald’s Refused to Take My Order — Seriously.

17

The Lost Art of the Handkerchief

18

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

19

Bhutan and the Pursuit of Happiness

20

Kelsey’s Bhutan Diary

21

Prayer Flags in Bhutan

22

What Can America Learn from Bhutan?

23

Bhutan’s Hot Stone Baths: A Healing Tradition

24

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

25

Arrows & Joy: Archery, Bhutan’s Soul Sport

26

Why I Came to Bhutan

27

Listening to Lech Wałęsa

28

The Day PB&J Changed My Life

29

Biking to Costco? Who Does That?

30

Thirty Minutes? You’ve Got to Be Kidding

31

Better Late, Still Beautiful

32

Bug Assault

33

Dandelions

34

Pickleball: From Backyard Game to National Obsession

35

Holy Cow, DQ – We Need to Talk

36

The Jar, the Loft, and a Very Human Victory

37

When the Body Whispers… and Then Shouts

38

Pickleball and the Power of Fifteen

39

Can We All Get Behind Belonging?

40

A Reunion to Remember—And Reflect Upon

41

“Where Everybody Knows Your Name” — My Cheers Dilemma

42

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

43

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

44

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

45

Art in the Open, A Day with Desert X

46

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

47

Where the Eye Becomes Art: A Hidden Gem in Copenhagen

48

A Love Letter to Herring

49

In Amsterdam, Bikes Rule — and Sometimes Bloom

50

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

51

My Life in Cotton: The Quilt of Me

52

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

53

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

54

Life Lessons from Turtles: Embracing a Turtle Mindset

55

Donald Trump — the Neville Chamberlain of our Time

56

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

57

The $2 Bill

58

Rediscovering the Root Beer Float

59

Rubber Duckies

60

Embarrassed

61

Joy Does Not Keep Score

62

What We Can Learn from History

63

Winston Churchill’s Sesquicentennial

64

The Power of Pilgrimages

65

The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth

66

Lynching in America

67

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

68

Time With the Grandchildren

69

Christmas Lights

70

Re-gifting

71

A Very Unusual Saturday

72

How To Fix Obesity In The United States

73

Obesity

74

Gladiators

75

Middle Names

76

Daisy Daisy

77

The Good Humor Man

78

Pan Handler

79

Car Detail

80

Shooting Your Age

81

Track Town USA

82

Charm City

83

Our Own Jaws-like Experience 50 Years Later

84

Gus Walz

85

Ice Cream Day

86

Hiking in The Sonoran Desert in the Daytime

87

Hiking In The Dark

88

The 50th Anniversary of Jaws

89

Playing It Forward

90

The Golden Bachelor

91

124 degrees

92

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

93

Loneliness

94

Thelma

95

A Reservation

96

Carrot Cake Pancakes

97

A Nickname

98

Penalty

99

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

100

Never Having Been To New York City

101

Cabaret

102

Sean Penn and Ukraine

103

Bruce's Booster Seat

104

A Cinnamon Roll

105

There Is More to The Story

106

A Shoeshine

107

Massage Chair

108

Getting Off The Grid

109

The Cost Of A Glass Of Water

110

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

111

How We Value A Good Teacher

112

How To Tell You're Getting Old

113

Mmm Boy Almond Joy

114

A View Of Gaza, 60 years earlier

115

Getting Ghosted

116

Date Shake

117

The Highest Gas Price In The United States

118

A Really Good Morning

119

Taking The Time To Think

120

The Help

121

Newspapers

122

Finger Bowls

123

Hotel Lobbies

124

The Value Of A Personal Note

125

Peaches

126

Road Kill Cafe

127

Purple Cow

128

Mississippi

129

Halloween

130

Showering Outside

131

A Bad Day

132

Postcards

133

Shock and Awe