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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....

Me on top of Mount Desert Island, Acadia National Park, off the coast of Maine

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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Joy

about 3 hours ago
In response to "Airborne School: A Memoir"

Wow! You did get SOME training! This does toughen people and it is fantastic, I think.
Yet, jumping out of a plane? It scares the bejeebers out of me. My younger son wanted to do that a while ago, but he has no such training and he is 52. I told him, since he is an adult, he can do whatever he wants, but I didn't want him to tell me about it, before or after.

BIG BAD WOLF is Surprised

about 6 hours ago
In response to "Airborne School: A Memoir"

Military fitness is nothing like Civilian fitness, especially that of active duty.

Stik to My Own Beat

a day ago
In response to "What To Write"

Oddly enough, I asked people about memoir structures in a forum post about a year and a half ago. After that discussion, I started thinking of blending structures for my memoir attempts. The blend I like is thematic with a somewhat condensed time frame. The broader idea I have in mind is the cavalcade of trauma in my 30s (bad car accident, premature parent death, and witnessing multiple acts of physical violence between the ages of 30 and 37). The other will likely focus on adolescence and platonic friendship abuse's impacts during the late 90s. This gives me some organizational structure without needing to be focused heavily on chronology.

Sum1

a day ago
In response to "What To Write"

I hear you JACE

, I'm under the same pressure, mainly from Kathy. She feels I should write a lot about my Navy Service, I've always thought it was 'just another job'. I see her point though, Submariners are few, veterans even fewer it seems. I should start on this, but like you, my memories come in batches, so to speak. If I started something like that, I think it would be a lot longer than 3400 words. Heck, it might make a good NanoWriMo task!

SandraLynn

a day ago
In response to "What To Write"

I suppose saying there's no time like the present is not in the least bit helpful. Sigh, sometimes the living interferes with the writing.

Patron Of Lost Clauses

a day ago
In response to "What To Write"

Im currently working on several projects including a Blog

StephBee

Aug 27, 2025 at 11:23pm
In response to "Winter's Coming"

Aug and Sep tend to be the hottest months of the year here in SoCal, but so far, not so bad in August, temps are late 90's to 105 max, which is infinitely manageable. When I go walking at work, I usually walk laps around the parking lot. At the house I have a route which I modify depending on heat and errands. I know this - I gotta keep walking - it really does help keep the joints in good working order!

Stik to My Own Beat

Aug 26, 2025 at 3:38pm
In response to "Winter's Coming"

Dunno. I appreciate the cool down, although admittedly my patience for heat got obliterated when I was in Indy a couple weeks ago. Thus, I await cooler weather happily.

ⱲєbⱲitϚћ WDC's 25

Aug 26, 2025 at 11:48am
In response to "Upgrade or Maintain?"

Are you kidding? My Ruby is 20 years old and I'm hanging on to her. I still get Volvo mail to buy a new one. Still coming for me after 20 years! They'll lose this campaign for sure. LOVE my Ruby! ...

StephBee

Aug 23, 2025 at 1:49pm
In response to "Upgrade or Maintain?"

My 2nd car was a 1985 Toyota Corolla. I drove all around Europe in it. Did the basic maint. at the local German dealership. I put over 400K on that car! That's the car that made me fall in love with Toyotas.

July 6, 2025 at 8:41am

#1092923

Cooking Shows

My wife loves watching cooking shows, especially the ones that pit chefs against other chefs. I suppose that's most of those shows. Anyway, she never cooks any of the dishes that are made ... thank God in most cases.

One show had a chef telling the judges that she had over-seasoned her dish because her palette was exhausted. I happened to mention to my wife that I'd have to remember that excuse the next time she cooked liver.

I know now that was the wrong thing to say.

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