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		<description><![CDATA[Epistle 31 – House Hunting
My “retirement plan” of mutual funds and Florida real estate seemed like a hell of an idea at the time.  When it went South without me, we were stuck with two houses whose value was fading faster than my memory.  Impaled on the horns of the two-house dilemma, the [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Epistle 30 – The Masters
It’s Masters golf tournament time and as I marvel at the splendor of Augusta National from the athletic position of my Lay-Z-Boy, I can’t help but compare the similarities of this grand event with my own early golf career.  It all began inauspiciously when I was 15 and my brother [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boomers . . . and How They Got That Way Epistle 29 – Thumbs of Death
Well, young people, Spring has finally arrived and it’s time for Boomer to troop out to the garden, moil around in the dirt, and commune with nature.  First I’ll stop by the garage and inspect my shovels and rakes [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Epistle 28 – Spring Break
Did you go to Florida on Spring Break?  Nah, me neither.  I always had to work, or at least I thought I did.  About the only thing Boomer parents knew how to do was work so that’s all they taught their kids.  All in all, not a [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Epistle 26 – Milestones
Well, it’s done.  I did it.  Or was it done to me?  I turned 65 today.  A milestone . . . or is that millstone?  All of my youth I was taught that if I worked hard and behaved myself, I would retire at 65 and get [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Epistle 26 – Computers
Maybe they’re just a fad.  Computers, I mean.  That’s what I thought when I first met one in college.  It was a big, hulking monster that you timidly fed punch cards in hopes of some grand pronouncement from the Beast, or at least a passing grade.  It was [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Epistle 25 – Bein’ Green
My car has 750 miles on it and is sitting in the garage, plotting to at least scare me to death, if not outright kill me.  That’s what CNN says, and they ought to know.  My car is being recalled because the floor mat or the accelerator or the [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Epistle 24 – Avast, Ye Lubbers!
Ahoy, mate!  Belay the cut o’ yer jib, or when the bos’n unfurls the yardarm,  you’ll walk the plank!  Down t’ Davey Jones’ locker with ye.  We’ll hoist the Jolly Roger by the 2-bell watch or me name ain’t Long John Silver!  Arrgh.
As you can [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Epistle 23 – Java
I have a Starbucks gold card, which I think means I hang out there a lot.  It’s like your friendly, neighborhood bartender having your “usual” set up on the bar before you even reach your stool.  It’s comforting to know there is someplace you always belong.  Of course, the [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Epistle 22 – Y2K Revisited
Ten years ago I bought my last bundle of firewood.  It is still waiting patiently to make it from the garage to the fireplace.  Apparently, we’re not what you’d call warm-and-cozy-by-the-fire people.  Maybe that’s because our first house had a nifty raised hearth fireplace beside a plush white [...]]]></description>
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