Category Archives: Learn

A Heart Song

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Find a place to “sing your heart out”… and when no one’s around, there’s always the shower.

Find a place to “sing your heart out”… and when no one’s around, there’s always the shower.

Remember when you were in a choir or glee club? It was all about singing a message with others using music as the communication vehicle. Whenever music is involved, be it singing or playing an instrument in a band, I think the participant is the real beneficiary. Add dancing or choreography and you had your whole body involved!

I always loved rehearsal… even more that the performance because I got to sing for a longer period of time. In the days and nights that followed, the music was going through my head while I was just doing every day activity. Continue reading →

A New Plan

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Management is problem solving every day and I have chosen to see this responsibility as a privilege.

Management is problem solving every day and I have chosen to see this responsibility as a privilege.

Retirement is not in my plan.  At age 65, I started a whole new career as housing has always been and area of interest.  After communicating on line with with Mary Peterson at The Hamilton in Savage, I came over for a visit to see the property for myself.   I asked Mary to describe in a nutshell, what it was like to manage a big apartment building.  She said, “It’s just like taking care of a very large home.”

Glendale Place was right next door, so I took a tour that same day.  Continue reading →

Invisible Pain

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Physical and emotional pains are a reality in everyone’s life.

Physical and emotional pains are a reality in everyone’s life.

On the outside, my fingernails looked perfect! But underneath two of those perfectly manicured nails was a throbbing pain that only I was noticing. Just hours before, somehow I had accidentally managed to get several fingers caught in the car door when I slammed it shut while grabbing for my seat-belt strap. Ouch!!!

I try to carry on, no matter what happens, so I tried reading to distract myself from the pain. Continue reading →

Racing Around Town

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got a speeding ticket and the fine I have to pay will take a big bite out of my funds.

The message is…… Slow down and live Marion. Save some money in the process!

Spring is early this year and everyone is out and about… including me.  I guess I am not the role model old lady Sunday driver because “slow” is not my speed.  Last Sunday I got a speeding ticket and the fine I have to pay will take a big bite out of my funds.  OUCH!!!!!!!

There is a well know program out there for seniors that is advertised as a way to save 15% on your car insurance.  Continue reading →

Name Hunting

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the sign bearing my own name… Marion

Retrieving my phone, I had to take a picture of the sign bearing my own name… Marion

While having lunch with Savage community business leaders I noticed a sign that informed me that we were meeting in “Marion Hall”. Retrieving my phone, I had to take a picture of the sign bearing my own name… Marion. I know it was really about Marion Savage, the owner of the famous hoarse, “Dan Patch” …. but it’s my name too!

Turns out that other places around here are named after Marion Savage, including this town and a fine elementary school just a few blocks away from my home here at Glendale Place.

As a child, I recall the first time I heard of Lake Marion in Lakeville. Continue reading →

Different & Interesting

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picking up shells on the beach

Dream retirement lifestyle of picking up shells on the beach. My reaction was nausea!

“Role Models” are everywhere.  For a long time, I have looked around for people who are older than I am… people who are doing something different and interesting.  My thinking began back in the 80’s when I heard about an article in Readers Digest which was highlighting the American Dream retirement lifestyle of picking up shells on the beach.  NOT!!!!!!!! Continue reading →