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• Baby Judge Judy rocks the world of YouTube and social media much as her adult self was wildly popular on daytime TV decades ago

  May 19, 2025

  Although I have long heard of her and she’s a pop culture icon, I never watched Judge Judy on TV because of both unknowing indifference and the fact that it came on during the day.  But truth be told, I have never watched much TV since I was in grade school.  For many years when…

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• A Grandmother in a nursing home has a devoted grandson; I tried my best to be a devoted son taking care of my mother in her home

  May 10, 2025

    A grandson is someone I will never know, in this life anyway. But when I saw this video clip, I was overcome with as much emotion as I am capable of these days. https://youtube.com/shorts/jeXQdsPDoaw?si=4qeVemP8lPvDcz0G It’s been over five years since Mom passed away on January 28, 2020. N...

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• A shining college town on a hill: My Mayberry existence once upon a time

  May 6, 2025

  Years ago in 1977, I lived in a small college town near a large city, but not too close. It felt like it was out a ways from everything. If it hadn’t been a college town, I would have thought I really was deep in the country. Now this little town was like some place…

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• Life before the World Wide Web versus today’s internet and technological advances with AI: two alien worlds collide

  April 30, 2025

  I often think about how technology has affected my life in the past three decades since I first went online with the World Wide Web at the library on a fateful day in late 1995. What do we do differently now as opposed to then? How Chas this one technology so radically changed our lives?…

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• What is “retirement?” Part 2

  April 23, 2025

    Part 1 is here:  https://www.opendiary.com/m/oswego/what-is-retirement-part-1-of-2-6322585/   When I look back on the diary entries which have told little bits of my life story spanning many years, I realize that I am now whole, even if I am not completely at peace, and there are many...

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• What is “retirement”? Part 1 of 2

  April 19, 2025

     I recently had the honor of learning that a scholarly research  paper has been written just recently by a professor in Spain analyzing my online diary, which I started in 1999.  I had known, and granted permission to him and several other academics several years earlier, to use my diary i...

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• From the Memory Vault: A new start in life began with travels around the country

  April 13, 2025

  The year 1984 was another of those pivotal years in my younger life when I was trying to come to grips with the end of one career and way of life, and the hopeful beginning of a new life in just about every way imaginable.  A fresh start. Always hopeful. You have to be. So…

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• Awakened

  April 4, 2025

  Those who are awake live in a state of constant amazement. Buddha If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. Buddha A fellow diarist once wrote this to me in a note, and I was deeply moved: I am fortunate in that I have a best friend…

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• Some thoughts as I ponder the meaning and purpose, rewards and consequences of life (Part 1)

  March 29, 2025

    I have reached a state in life where the major lessons have been presented to me and mostly learned. Now is the time to think about what life has meant from all that I have done and experienced, and what it’s purpose has been. To that end, I find myself thinking more deeply about…

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