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No Longer "Not Your Grandfather's CPA" My journey out of Dallas and into Retirement!

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No Longer "Not Your Grandfather's · 2d ago

Searching for more of my roots

Tuesday we didn’t have anything really planned, so we just set out to take a ride around north-central Illinois and Indiana. First we went across the line into Indiana and took some of the lesser roads through farm country. We happened upon a lovely little lake, which turned out to be named “Cedar L
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No Longer "Not Your Grandfather's · 4d ago

Texarkana to Chicago

Yesterday we had a chance to go to church at First Presbyterian Church, Texarkana, AR. It was Youth Sunday, and we really enjoyed the service. We had an opportunity to say hello and goodbye to the Cogbills, the McClerkins, the Moores, John Calhoun, Mark Richards, the Halls and lots more folks. It wa
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No Longer "Not Your Grandfather's · 6d ago

Lots of Nostalgia

We started out the day with George McCasland’s graduation from Texas A&M at Texarkana. He got his Bachelor of Science degree in History and Political Science. It will let him teach school while he gets his Teacher Certification. When the graduating was over, Big Al and I headed out to Washington, AR
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No Longer "Not Your Grandfather's · 1w ago

The first day of the rest of our lives

We got up in time to have our breakfast, compliments of the Fairfield Inn. We had the the car loaded to the max, but everything fit in. Even though Big Al was convinced it would never fit. We decided to get in the habit early of staying off the interstates and seeing a little of [...]
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No Longer "Not Your Grandfather's · 1W ago

The Deed is done

We signed the papers about 3:30 pm, so we are officially homeless now, although we should have quite a little nest egg to live where we want. Be sure to check out our new digs. Everything is going great. Now, if only I can figure out how to post pictures from the iPad. The empty [...]
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No Longer "Not Your Grandfather's · 2W ago

On the downward slide

We’re on the downward slide. All the paperwork has been done for the move. I’ve changed addresses everywhere, transferred my household goods insurance effective 18 May, transferred my car insurance effective 1 July. The utilities will be cut off on the 18th, except the phone and the cable which are
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No Longer "Not Your Grandfather's · 2W ago

Boxes, and boxes, and boxes

Not much going on except stuff going into boxes! We went to a lovely barbecue last evening thrown by Big Al’s men’s group from the church. I ate weigh (no, way) too much. They gave us a great coffee table book of all the beautiful parts of Texas, so we will have something to look [...]
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No Longer "Not Your Grandfather's · 4W ago

Busy, busy, busy!

I know I’ve been very remiss in keeping this blog updated, but I’ve been really busy. I hope all of you, gentle readers, know already – WE SOLD THE HOUSE!!! I’ve not been posting too much about that news because – although it’s been under contract for a week – we had to wait through [...]
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No Longer "Not Your Grandfather's · 1M ago

Spirit of the Living God

I went to a workshop at Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church today, led by Mark Yaconelli. He did a workshop here a couple of years ago and was such a hit we had him come back. His title was Living Without Anxiety in an Anxious World. First we started out with learning about, and practicing Centering
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No Longer "Not Your Grandfather's · 1M ago

What If the Resurrection Were a Lie?

The prompt for the Synchroblog this month is “What if the resurrection were a lie?” Cynic that I am, I am forced to look around and say “What if the world – we Christians – REALLY believed the resurrection were the truth?” It seems to me, if we really believed it, we would be less [...]
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