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From My Mind to....

by JACE

Rated: GC · Book · Personal · #1503918

A blog of no uncertain musings. What goes on in my mind is often a source of wonder to me.

My mind and my life are wonderous things ... as are yours, I'm sure. I have more slips of paper and pages of notebooks with musings and thoughts than I really know what to do with. Someone, actually several someones, have suggested I start a blog ... or a journal as a means of focusing some of this mental energy.

To be honest, I don't even know what the difference between a 'journal' and 'blog' is--or if there even is a difference. Read on, my friends, and you can judge for yourself whether it even matters.

And so....

Mee at my daughter's wedding.

I'm JACE. Yep ... that's me! And somewhere in all my writings my last name may be posted. But I'll just leave it at Jace for right now. I'm 70 years old and heading full tilt to 71. It's strange that while I'm going through some rather serious medical issues, I still consider myself to be in the prime of my life--pretty good shape physically AND mentally, though I don't run for competition anymore

. I love to ... dang, if I put this stuff here, I won't have anything for my blog.

Guess you just have to be patient until such stuff leaks out.

Perhaps 2025, having embraced my retirement, will see more participation in my journaling efforts.

Well, one can hope....

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

JACE

Dec 13, 2025 at 8:55am
In response to "When The Wife Decides ..."

SantaBee - The trip was uneventful, and the many booths at the ChristKindleMart (probably spelled that wrong) was much better than I thought. Jeanette did good.

The water was hot for my shower, but the bathroom was decidedly cold. I think the only heat came from what might have flowed through the door from the rest of the house. It IS a quaint place though.

SantaBee

Dec 12, 2025 at 11:10am
In response to "When The Wife Decides ..."

Sending you good vibes for a good ride, a nice visit and a working toilet!

Elisa, Snowman Stik

Dec 12, 2025 at 9:28am
In response to "When The Wife Decides ..."

Man, I wish you luck on that drive. The whole situation sounds far too stressful.

Elisa, Snowman Stik

Dec 10, 2025 at 11:27am
In response to "Scatterbrained"

This random proliferation of ideas is why I started listing journal topics for my main book item (My blog item is a slightly different beast that truly requires planning.)

Ẃebbie֍Christmas To You!

Dec 8, 2025 at 7:00pm
In response to "Two Months of Success"

Good job, Jace! You are breaking your own record. Keep up the good work.

I managed to hold on to my daily achievements even while traveling South. Not an easy thing. I found typing on my phone in the car was not my forte! But I didn't mess up. I had a great streak before messing up last May on my return North. I think I had a daily record of close to 300 days. Something like that. When It gets that high, it's harder starting all over again. But I did. I think I have 218 day streak since then. But I'm sure I'll screw up eventually!

tj's-jingle-jingling; Ho Ho Ho

Dec 7, 2025 at 3:57pm
In response to "Decorating For Christmas"

My wife does the majority of the decorating; I help as asked. This year, we did the outside lights before it got cold. It was still chilly, but above freezing.

Ẃebbie֍Christmas To You!

Dec 7, 2025 at 2:52pm
In response to "Decorating For Christmas"

Love it! "I have a loaded Nerf gun at my beck and call, and I know how to use it."

Have fun decorating, Jace! I'm currently watching the Bills & Bengals game at the clubhouse. But then, my Christmas decorations are already up!

Have a wonderful day! ...

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Jim

Dec 7, 2025 at 1:27pm
In response to "Decorating For Christmas"

Buddy likes to play with things. The last time I hung stockings from our Chimney, he pulled them off, and promptly broke the stocking holder. No more stockings on the chimney.

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Elisa, Snowman Stik

Dec 7, 2025 at 12:23pm
In response to "Starbucks"

This is an excellent story about how third places work.

SantaBee

Dec 4, 2025 at 7:04pm
In response to "Starbucks"

I used to be big into Starbucks, but then when money got tight in California, I couldn't afford it anymore so I stopped going. Now, over the years, I get Starbucks gift cards for helping out, Christmas, birthdays, holidays and I decided to to collect them and put them in my phone. I've got $80.00 worth of GC for Starbucks. Time to enjoy a drink a two.

for the girls. I have no doubt they learned something invaluable from you that they've applied going forward in their lives. How to learn and how to be adaptive and the value of hard, honest, work.

December 10, 2025 at 9:00am

#1103366

Scatterbrained

Are you a scatterbrained writer?

I have to say, I am. I started writing on some topic for my Blog ... and ended up writing my next Noticing Newbies newsletter. The latter isn't due for a couple weeks, which is good. But I had this great subject for my daily blog entry that never got done. That deviation resulted in this blog entry. So I shouldn't complain.

But this is why I have SOOOO many scraps and pages of notes, scribblings, and thoughts about this subject or that topic. I can't seem to decide about what I should write. I wonder how close I'd come to 50,000 words is I just started putting all those scraps and pages into one file. It wouldn't be a novel, per se. But consolidating some 20 manila folders of my ideas is more appealing these days.

On a personal note (hmmm, I suppose everything I put in here is personal):

Thank you for nominating me for two Quill Awards. I'm honored to be considered. Both nominations are for reviewing--something I truly enjoy and take seriously.

Category: Best Reviewer

Category: Best Review: Review of "Blue (A short story)"

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