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We Need to Smell the Coffee!

Whenever I meet up with my brother-in-law during the holidays, he regularly insists we do long cross-country runs in the early morning. And because I know it’s good for me, I nearly always end up agreeing (even if I end up bleating all the way around about the cold and rain), particularly as we always […]

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Five Years of Blogging

I’ve now been blogging for five years. By the numbers, I am pleased to share my Serendipities.blog has now reached the giddy heights of 111 signed-up subscribers.  Over five years, I have somehow managed to knock up 92 posts, written over 83,000 words, and last year the blog site was visited 28,900 times from readers […]

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Curious About Rabbit Holes

Sitting down with a glass of wine this week, half-heartily trying to read (Politics on the Edge), I noticed my son was utterly absorbed by something he was reading on the computer.  Even from where I was sitting on the other side of the room, I could see he was on Wikipedia.  Curious, I asked […]