by Rupe | Feb 24, 2012 | Musical Words, My Videos

Click to see the videoI suppose one way of dealing with the passing of someone is to simply relive their moments or memories in your head. Â I can’t get over this song by Whitney – It has so many meanings and memories to me personally. Â Gone too soon.
Yeah – I know I have highlighted this song already, but it is one of my favorites…
by Rupe | Feb 21, 2012 | Musical Words, My Videos

I could not help but posting this tribute to Whitney done by this awesome female – Shelea Frazier.  She sings many of Whitney Houston’s biggest hits in one take, no auto tune, no edits…she is simply as close to Whitney as I have heard…she is awesome!  Click here to see the videos or scroll down below.
by Rupe | Feb 17, 2012 | Not So Recent Reads
Title:Â How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free – Retirement Wisdom That You Won’t Get from Your Financial
Advisor by Ernie J. Zelinski
Summary:
How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free offers inspirational advice on how to enjoy life to its fullest. The key to achieving an active and satisfying retirement involves a great deal more than having adequate financial resources; it also encompasses all other aspects of life – interesting leisure activities, creative pursuits, physical well-being, mental well-being, and solid social support.
In How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free, bestselling author Ernie J. Zelinski guides you to:
- Gain courage to take early retirement; in fact, the earlier the better.
- Put money in proper perspective so that you don’t need a million dollars to retire.
- Generate purpose in your retirement life with meaningful creative pursuits.
- Follow your dreams instead of someone else’s.
- Take charge of your mental, physical, and spiritual health.
- Create and maintain great friends – a key ingredient for a great retirement.
- Above all, make your retirement years the best time of your life.
With its friendly format and positive tone, How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free offers retirement wisdom that you won’t get from your financial advisor. This wisdom will prove to be much more important for creating an active, satisfying, and happy retirement than how much money you have saved.
My Comments:
Really loved the trip that this read took me on. Â As an almost full retiree myself, these are sage words for me. Â Ernie Zelinski captured the essence of what I think retirement should be. Â Â Hopefully, when I fully retire for good in 5 years or less, I will get a chance to do all the thinks I dream of. Â
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by Rupe | Feb 16, 2012 | Mad Musings, Not So Recent Reads
Title: One Second After by William R. Forstchen
Summary:
In a small North Carolina town, one man struggles to save his family after America loses a war that will send it back to the Dark Ages.
Already cited on the floor of Congress and discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a book all Americans should read, One Second After is the story of a war scenario that could become all too terrifyingly real. Based upon a real weapon – the Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) – which may already be in the hands of our enemies, it is a truly realistic look at the awesome power of a weapon that can destroy the entire United States, literally within one second.
This book, set in a typical American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future and our end.
My Comments:
At first I thought that this was going to be a long read, but it turned out quite good. Â I am not a big fiction reader per se, but this really give you something to think about. Â The fact that it is also possibly, although not likely, add to the mystique of it. Â Really enjoyed it. I recommend it.
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