Thursday, August 30, 2018

A Perfect Evening

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Copyright © 2018 By Ralph F. Couey It was our last night in Denver, the inevitable closing of one set of doors.   Earlier in the da...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Culture, Weather, and Getting Acclimated

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Oh yeah... Copyright © 2018 by Ralph F. Couey So, this sojourn we are on has us hopping time zones as we zig back and forth. ...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

Age and the Downward Spiral of Time

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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. T...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Voyaging Without a Home Port

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"Together we're in this relation ship, We built it with care to last the whole trip, Our true destination's not marked...
Friday, August 03, 2018

Moving, Furniture, and Letting Go

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Copyright © 2018 by Ralph F. Couey It's always a shock when that wily beast known as "times have changed" jumps righ...
Friday, July 20, 2018

The Road Never Traveled. Until Now.

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"We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down n...
Sunday, June 17, 2018

Fathers Day

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"I'm a father.  That's what matters most. Nothing matters more." --Gordon Brown Copyright © 2018 by Ralph F...
Friday, June 08, 2018

Facing Life's Consistency of Change

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"If you fall off of a cliff without a parachute, there's nothing left to do but enjoy the breeze  and admire the view on the ...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

It's All About the Hate

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© 2018 Phil Mislinski/Getty Copyright © 2018 by Ralph F. Couey Written content only "We become slaves the moment we hand...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Another Year Older, Another Year...

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From Pinterest.com "There's still no cure for the common birthday." --John Glenn Today was my birthday, numbe...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Mom's and Mother's Day

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 © Breezy Brookshire Breezy Tulip Studio Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. She opens h...

The vital Perspective of the Long View

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It is not the present  from which  we will learn the truth  of right or wrong. It is rather from the verdict of history which lie...
Wednesday, May 09, 2018

My Re-Discovery of Life

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Faces in a crowd, all with stories to tell. Copyright © 2018 by Ralph F. Couey In the past month I've made a couple of chan...
Thursday, May 03, 2018

Speech: The Legacy of the Uniform

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Copyright © 2018 by Ralph F. Couey It would be easy for someone like me to stand here and recite platitudes of "Duty, Hono...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

A Nudge to the National Anthem

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Copyright © 2018 by Ralph F. Couey The "Star Spangled Banner" has been the officially designated National Anthem o...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Keeping Human Interaction Involved With Tech Communications

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Communicating while communing. Copyright © 2018 by Ralph F. Couey About a half a million years ago, humans began communicating ...
Monday, April 09, 2018

How Quickly Days Pass, and How Quickly Children Grow

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"The Days are long, but the years are short." --Unknown Copyright © 2018 by Ralph F. Couey They enter our lives i...
Saturday, April 07, 2018

Ready for Roots? Maybe...

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Chantilly, VA Somerset, PA Columbia, MO Some of the places we've called home. Copyright © 2018 by Ralph F. Cou...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Baseball: The Game and the Spirit

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From Shutterstock.com "There are only two seasons: Winter and Baseball." --Bill Veeck In February, most places in ...
Monday, March 12, 2018

The Word "Cute" As a Foreign Language

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From JustFab.com So, I Googled "Cute Shoes."   This is what I got back. Copyright © 2018 by Ralph F. Couey It...
Friday, February 23, 2018

Turn the Page

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From Quotefancy.com We go through good times and bad, but nothing ever really lasts.  No matter how joyous or how sad a period of tim...
Saturday, February 17, 2018

No Words, No Understanding...Just Grief

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"Sometimes, there are just no words." --Unknown Since the news came across last Wednesday of yet another school shootin...
Thursday, February 08, 2018

The Utter Waste of Time That is Anger

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Copyright © 2018 by Ralph F. Couey Going to the Doctor's is something that is almost routine for most folks.  I know that for...
Friday, February 02, 2018

Putting Passion Into Practice

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Three Generations, Crystal is in the middle. Copyright © 2018 by Ralph F. Couey Almost exactly seven years ago, I wrote a blog ...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Am I Worth It?

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Dear Lord, Lest I continue my complacent way, Help me to remember that somehow out there, A man died for me today. As long as th...
Saturday, January 27, 2018

Leaving Fantasy Island

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Copyright © 2018 By Ralph F. Couey In a few days, we'll be on the road again.  Our three-week sojourn in Hawai'i is endin...
Thursday, January 25, 2018

Standing on Land's End

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Copyright © 2018 By Ralph F. Couey About five million years ago, a volcano on the island that would eventually be called O'...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

The Occasional Seedy Underbelly of History

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Copyright © 2018 By Ralph F. Couey Honolulu is one of those places where history points in many different directions, all of them...
Saturday, January 20, 2018

The Voices of Fear

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Blast and fallout map, 150kt weapon. Hawaii Emergency Management Agency Copyright © 2018 By Ralph F. Couey By now, everyone ...