Category: Reflections
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Causality versus Free Will
Modern life depends on causality. You stomp on your car’s brake pedal and through a series of mechanical, hydraulic and electrical links your car rapidly slows. The chain of events began long before your foot touches the brake pedal. Perhaps millions of years before.
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Where Is Home
“Don’t you ever go home?” a woman asked me after hearing about our nomadic lifestyle. After thinking about her question I decided I am home. See why my home needs an RV to experience its depth and its breadth.
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Rain, Rain, Go Away
When the rain threatened to spoil activities when I was a child we would chant: “Rain rain, go away! Come again another day!” Our hope was that the rain would go away. Now, as an RVer, that chant has a very different meaning.
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When to Start Taking Social Security
Various investment articles and advisers routinely advocate that retirees delay when they will start taking Social Security without any explanation of how they come to this conclusion. This means a retiree would need to draw more from his or her investments until he/she starts taking Social Security, decreasing income from investments to cover his expenses in…
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Book Review: The Martian by Andy Weir
Be careful opening this book. I opened it thinking I would read a few pages before going to sleep only to set it down nine hours later after reading all 369 pages. Andy Weir successfully strings together plausible solutions to plausible problems of surviving after being stranded on Mars. Each solution stresses a habitability system…