by Patti Miinch | Jan 9, 2023 | Add, aging, it all adds up, loss, options, prime time living
“Aging is a process of giving up things, sometimes one by one and at other times in batches,” lamented a 92-year-old friend when I visited her just after Thanksgiving. She told me that while she didn’t mind the loss of things like an uninterrupted night’s sleep and...
by Patti Miinch | Jan 5, 2023 | change, Choose, isolation, one little word, one word, one word 2023, prime time living
The past couple of years have been a “perfect storm” of age and isolation that has allowed (caused?) me to be more contemplative than in previous years. I’ve had plenty of (aka more than enough) alone time to look at where I am, what caused me to arrive here, and...
by Patti Miinch | Apr 8, 2021 | advanture, on the road, prime time living, Road trip day 1
Wifi and battery life being what they are, I’m not sure if I’ll be able to post here on the blog every day, but my plan is to post every morning with a recap from the day before. Tonight, I thought I’d just share a recap of today’s drive.I pulled out of the driveway...
by Patti Miinch | Jan 14, 2021 | Facebook, instagram, Patti Miinch, prime time living, snapchat, social media, taming the social media monster, twitter
“When I first joined Facebook, I was so excited about being able to communicate with relatives, friends, and former coworkers scattered around the world. I enjoyed it so much that I also started using other programs, too. But social media has become more complex...
by Patti Miinch | Dec 10, 2020 | 2021, focus, just one word, one little word, one word, Patti Miinch, prime time living, word
Words dominate our lives. We speak and sing them, read them, write them, hear them, and think them. The barrage of words — from both external sources and from our own internal dialogue — can be distracting, even overwhelming. It can be helpful, then, to step back...
by Patti Miinch | Nov 19, 2020 | accountability, bicycling, dreams, goals, kedging, life, live, Patti Miinch, plan, prime time living, retirement, tricks to treat yourself
Ahhhh . . . retirement. A time of doing as much of the things we want to do and as little or none of what we don’t want to do.That’s what I thought life beginning the first day my own retirement. I had made a list of things I wanted to do more of or add to my life,...
