Buy someone else’s Years ago, before Donald Trump became a politician, I remember him on TV counseling Iowa lottery winners on what to do with their winnings. They wanted to build their dream house. Trump said something like, “Don’t build your dream, buy someone else’s dream.” As with most advice, it can make sense… or…
October 10th: “A full time job”
Another couple from our complex is building in Hathaway Lakes… just a few houses down from my daughter. They took our approach to design. Printed out 114 pages of options. Poured over each one choice. Researched options of moving walls, creating unique spaces, gathering ideas from visiting other models and online galleries. The wife exclaimed,…
Sept 27th: The Last of Summer
The last warm weekend. Last day our favorite beach restaurants were open. No more lobster fondue. Devoured my last bang bang shrimp tacos too. We counted twelve sailboats in view. If one sails after today it will be an oddity. Boats being dry-docked. Weather turning cold and rainy tonight. The surfers donning wetsuits today. Crap,…
Sept 26th: The Dead Leaves Tour Begins
What do you do when you already live in a paradise and fall arrives? A multitude of local beaches, seemingly endless trails thru dunes and woods still beckon. Restaurants, brewhouses, vineyards, meaderies, cider mills and eclectic stores within less than an hour’s drive… most still unexplored. So do you stay close? Nope. Here, we head…
Sept 16th: Plunging into the details
What are you? Are you a detail oriented person, or a big picture person? I once participated in a week long Center For Creative Leadership program which found me taking every psychological test ever invented (so it seemed). After a full week of this, we felt like guinea pigs for researchers, but the individual four…
Sept 8th: Friends
Did you really choose? I have the “walk away” super power. And it is is fantastic. When used for the good of all mankind… or my own good. Some people just stay. The town they grew up in. The childhood friends. The college friends. Stay in the first house they ever buy. Or even if…
Sept 6th: How We Lose
Are you tired of BLM? (I posted this on Medium last week and sadly got few views, so i am adding it to my blog too) Photo by Ben White on Unsplash This time was going to be different. Maybe it still will. But I worry we are already beginning to lose. By “we” I…
September 2nd: Say it ain’t so!
Bad news Weds. How dare they close Dockers on September 27th! I surely thought they would stay open until mid-October. I am not ready for summer to end. Now I have to check and see when The Deck is closing for the summer. How many more trips to these two beautiful restaurants on the water…
August 28th: Goodbye Minimalism… am I a traitor to the cause?
Maybe you know my/our story from this blog: I quit my job, we sold our large and overflowing house, gave away our possessions and moved to a two bedroom apartment. Living on the beach in Grand Haven, Michigan. I had started a 200 day countdown blog when few people believed I was serious. I continued…
August 5th: Keep on Krusing
Coming back from a Muskegon beach restaurant, we ventured into Kruse Park. Known as a great dog park, we were disappointed to have heard it was closed earlier this year due to the winter beach erosion. Over six months ago. Surely they have fixed the stairs by now? Nope. The beach access boardwalk showed no…