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Random thoughts and my philosophy of life.

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  • How Corporate and Governmental Greed Used The Distance Rule To Control You and Your Beliefs.
  • Why Newer Appliances Constantly Break, And What To Do About it.

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  • Empowerment
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  • Hashimoto's Encephalopathy
  • Hashtag
  • helping during covid 19
  • Hidradenitis Supporativa
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  • history of soap
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  • Hotel room cooking
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  • living in a van
  • Love
  • love bombing
  • Making Change
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  • meal ideas during covid-19 pandemic
  • meal prep during covid19
  • Mealthy Pressure cooker
  • media bias
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  • Naperville house fire
  • Naperville McDonald’s
  • Naperville North High School
  • NASA
  • Negatives of van life
  • Not enough time.
  • obesity and weight control
  • on being selfish
  • origins of prejudice
  • outrage porn
  • PANDAS
  • pandemic
  • Parent Plus loans
  • parenting
  • personal growth
  • Photography
  • Plan B
  • podcast listening
  • Polish Immigrants
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  • Presidential election
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  • Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
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  • pushing through fear
  • recognizing emotional needs
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  • risk taking
  • road trip in a pandemic
  • rude behavior
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  • self-assessment
  • Senior
  • September Song
  • serenity prayer
  • Shelter-in-place
  • slow cooker advice
  • small electric appliances
  • Spaceflight
  • spending time with family
  • Spiritual fasting
  • St. Patrick's Day
  • State Fair
  • Staying in the moment
  • student loan crisis
  • Sun Studios
  • Surviving an empty next
  • Swiss Army Knife
  • take control of happiness
  • take control of your mood
  • Taking control of your life
  • technology
  • Tell me your story
  • Terrified
  • Thanksgiving
  • Thanksgiving Day 2018
  • The 2020 Presidential debate
  • The American Dream
  • The Guitar Junkyard
  • The importance of kindness
  • The Last Fling of Naperville
  • the purpose of stress
  • The Rat Race
  • The rise of selfishness
  • this can save your life
  • Total solar eclipse
  • traditions
  • Uncategorized
  • understanding guilt
  • Urban Stealth Camping
  • US moon landing
  • using a instant pot in a van
  • using a rice cooker in a car
  • Valley Honda
  • van kitchen
  • van kitchen design
  • vandwelling
  • Vote
  • Walking
  • Walmart shopping
  • Wayfarer Van Weekend
  • ways to be happier
  • What's wrong in America
  • Winter Camping
  • Winter in a Van
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  • The Complete Guide For Seniors And Others Who Want To Upgrade Their Computing Devices (Tablets and Laptops). Save Money, Get What You Really Need!
  • How Corporate and Governmental Greed Used The Distance Rule To Control You and Your Beliefs.
  • Why Newer Appliances Constantly Break, And What To Do About it.

Recent Comments

  • Linda P. on Traveling, Friendship, and Friction.
  • Nancy on Soap, Chemistry, And Believing Lies
  • Patti on Soap, Chemistry, And Believing Lies
  • John J on Dr. Mike Goes To Walmart
  • Nancy on Life During COVID-The New Normal?

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Categories

  • #COVID fatigue
  • #COVID-19
  • #metoo
  • 12-volt cooking in a car
  • 1950s kitchen
  • 21-day fast
  • A&G Auto Audio
  • Acceptance of others
  • Accurate blood pressure
  • accurate blood pressure monitor
  • achieving life goals
  • Advice to my children
  • Aging
  • Amazon
  • anxiety
  • Anxiety during COVID-19
  • Appreciate every day
  • attack ads
  • autoimmune disease
  • Baby It's Cold Outside-The Controversy
  • backpacking
  • Bad fast food
  • Baking as science
  • Baking Macarons
  • Baraboo WI
  • best blood pressure monitor
  • Best food processor
  • Best friends
  • best kitchen appliances
  • Birthday
  • BLM
  • Bowser
  • Buying a food processor or food chopper
  • camping
  • Caregiving Help
  • Celebrity College Admission Scandal
  • Cell phone vs. camera
  • chamber vacuum sealer guide
  • changing behavior
  • Changing Christmas
  • chemistry
  • Christmas in Minnesota
  • Christmas newsletters
  • Christmas Past
  • cognitive restructuring
  • College Orientation
  • colorectal cancer
  • Comcast
  • Community Christian Church
  • conflict resolution
  • cooking
  • cooking appliances energy savings.
  • cooking in a car
  • Cooking in a dorm room
  • cooking in a van
  • cooking without a kitchen
  • Coronavirus
  • couple's relationships
  • COVID Christmas
  • COVID Halloween
  • Covid-19
  • Covid-19 help
  • COVID-19 Mother's Day
  • COVID-19 Q&A
  • Covid-19 questions and answers
  • crock pot
  • customer service
  • dangers of advertising
  • dangers of commercials
  • dangers of student loans
  • Dealing with Christmas stress
  • dealing with difficult times
  • Dealing with stress
  • decision making
  • depression
  • Depression and COVID-19
  • Devil's Lake Wisconsin
  • disaster preparedness.
  • discovering you true needs
  • DIY Essential Ten kit
  • dog bonds
  • Easter
  • Electric Pressure Cooker
  • Elvis Presley
  • emergency radio
  • Empowerment
  • Essential 10 for hikers
  • exercise
  • family
  • Family and Covid-19
  • Family relationships
  • family traditions
  • Family Vacations
  • Fasting
  • father son relationship
  • fear of parenting
  • Filling retirement time
  • finding a private place in a COVID house
  • finding meaning in life
  • finding new direction
  • finding true peace
  • fire and flood restoration
  • Food prep without a refrigerator
  • Food Processor
  • friends
  • friendship
  • frugal living
  • George Floyd
  • getting into a highly selective college
  • getting rid of bad relationships
  • Good relationships
  • Gratitude List
  • growth through trauma
  • guilt
  • Guitar Museum
  • Halloween
  • Hashimoto's Encephalopathy
  • Hashtag
  • helping during covid 19
  • Hidradenitis Supporativa
  • highly selective college
  • Hiking safety
  • history of soap
  • Holiday Celebrations
  • Holiday gift giving stress
  • Holidays with family
  • Hotel room cooking
  • How Doctors Should Talk to Patients About Obesity
  • How to say no
  • IL
  • Illegal Immigrants
  • Immigrants
  • Induction range
  • Inner child
  • Instant Pot review
  • introvert
  • Introvert and shelter-in-place
  • iPhone
  • Johnny Cash
  • kids
  • Kids going off to college
  • kids transitioning to college, empty nest
  • kindness
  • Kuna Kampout
  • Las Vegas
  • LaSalle Illinois
  • lessons from a bathroom remodel
  • Lessons from fasting
  • Lies that soap makers tell us
  • Life after retirement
  • life balance
  • life without children
  • Life without the internet
  • living in a van
  • Love
  • love bombing
  • Making Change
  • Making change in 2020
  • meal ideas during covid-19 pandemic
  • meal prep during covid19
  • Mealthy Pressure cooker
  • media bias
  • meditation
  • memories
  • Mental Health and COVID-19
  • Microwave oven dangers
  • microwave oven safety
  • minimalism
  • Minnesota
  • Motivating Chage
  • Naperville
  • Naperville CJDR
  • Naperville house fire
  • Naperville McDonald’s
  • Naperville North High School
  • NASA
  • Negatives of van life
  • Not enough time.
  • obesity and weight control
  • on being selfish
  • origins of prejudice
  • outrage porn
  • PANDAS
  • pandemic
  • Parent Plus loans
  • parenting
  • personal growth
  • Photography
  • Plan B
  • podcast listening
  • Polish Immigrants
  • Political correctness
  • politics
  • Presidential election
  • presidential election 2020
  • problem solving
  • Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
  • Protests
  • PSP
  • psychiatry
  • psychology
  • pushing through fear
  • recognizing emotional needs
  • reducing school stress
  • resolving marital conflict
  • resolving school conflict
  • resolving work conflict
  • resolving work stress
  • retirement
  • risk taking
  • road trip in a pandemic
  • rude behavior
  • save money on groceries
  • saving money
  • secret to success
  • self-assessment
  • Senior
  • September Song
  • serenity prayer
  • Shelter-in-place
  • slow cooker advice
  • small electric appliances
  • Spaceflight
  • spending time with family
  • Spiritual fasting
  • St. Patrick's Day
  • State Fair
  • Staying in the moment
  • student loan crisis
  • Sun Studios
  • Surviving an empty next
  • Swiss Army Knife
  • take control of happiness
  • take control of your mood
  • Taking control of your life
  • technology
  • Tell me your story
  • Terrified
  • Thanksgiving
  • Thanksgiving Day 2018
  • The 2020 Presidential debate
  • The American Dream
  • The Guitar Junkyard
  • The importance of kindness
  • The Last Fling of Naperville
  • the purpose of stress
  • The Rat Race
  • The rise of selfishness
  • this can save your life
  • Total solar eclipse
  • traditions
  • Uncategorized
  • understanding guilt
  • Urban Stealth Camping
  • US moon landing
  • using a instant pot in a van
  • using a rice cooker in a car
  • Valley Honda
  • van kitchen
  • van kitchen design
  • vandwelling
  • Vote
  • Walking
  • Walmart shopping
  • Wayfarer Van Weekend
  • ways to be happier
  • What's wrong in America
  • Winter Camping
  • Winter in a Van
  • Winter walking gear
  • WordPress
  • Work Stress
  • worry
  • writing
  • writing topics
  • Wrong address, right town seller scam
  • your memoir

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