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To cap off our Summer of Stress, my wife had another bad fall and fractured her hip. She is now in a rehab hospital for at least another week. I am going back and forth there and trying to get the home fitted more like a medical facility. Such is life in the age of the aging. On a brighter note...

With thanks to Willie Nelson for his classic song, I am moved to get back on the course again. Missing the old STC friends here; maybe they will start checking in again. I think our old-fashioned Staying the Course thread can co-exist nicely with the goals-oriented one that some of our...

The Goals Throwdown has been great, It's more in the spirit of the original Throwdown. Let't go with it as the regular fare here. I no longer have any real goals beyond getting out of bed in the morning. If I get another dog, I will just do my dogwalking blog outside of vr.org. So carry on, guys...

I am going to defer to Chuck C's post just below this one -- "Let's Set Some Goals -- a Throwdown!" Great idea! Whether you respond here, or in his thread below, or both, it matters not to me. He has revived some of the spirit of the original Throwdown, which was basically a weight-loss...

Greetings, fellow Coursers! The experiment with putting up a starter post for each month (and then just letting discussions run freely) seemed to work just fine with May. So we proceed with June, the sixth month of the year and the month that brings us everything from weddings to Wimbledon...

Greetings, fellow Coursers, wherever you may be. Been a while. Wonder if my bright idea of doing a starter post just once a month might be having the unintended effect of causing STC to wither on the vine. Maybe if there is interest, I will try to refresh semi-weekly or perhaps weekly. April...

April 10, 2021 I'm fine, but was feeling kind of burned out this week as far as starting a new STC Week. I am going to be preoccupied with my next surgery two months hence, and I don't know that that would make exciting reading. Looked back tonight and discovered I started Staying the Course...

Hello, fellow Coursers! Greetings from the Wednesday-is-the-New-Monday guy. Today I sing the praises of sports, warts and all. The seasons of sports are a major factor in keeping my sanity at least partially intact. And this week two seasons converge: the conclusion of college basketball's...

Good new week, fellow Coursers. I am in hectic mode, getting ready for appointment with my cardiologist. Lots of big decisions within family. Life is way more hectic in so-called "retirement" than it ever was in my 9 to 5 working days. Cheerio. I will write more later. Let's hear from you'all...

Oh wow, it's late Tuesday night, and I haven't posted a STC new-week starter yet. Getting to be a habit with me. Anyway, greetings, and ... HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY! What are you all doing to celebrate, if you are? Aren't we all Irish on Saint Paddy's Day, eh? We likely will get a couple of...

Howdy, all. Hope all goes well along the courses you are staying. Pretty quiet 'round here. Lots of people still scrambling to make appointments to get their vaccinations to (we hope) subdue the pandemic. About 10% of South Carolinians are now "fully vaccinated," and DW and I are fortunate to be...

Hello, all. No snow here for sure, but we do have roller-coaster weather -- high 80 one day, 50 the next. And a lot of rain so far in 2021, with the result that several rivers are still in flood stage a week later. Had thought about taking a break this week, 'cause don't have anything new to...

Greetings, hearty Coursers! Hope all is well in your world, and you are proceeding smoothly and happily along your courses. This morning Ellie dawg and I stepped out for a walk and instantly noticed a big warm-up underway. I thought to myself "I probably don't even need this light baseball...

Heading out for our second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. Blessed to have a rare sunny day. More rainstorms will move into tonight and linger through Friday. Our latest share of the freaky winter storms, though we are far more fortunate than folks in the iced-in, sub-freezing places like Texas...

Greetings, hearty Coursers! Welcome to the start of another STC week. (Who knew that weeks started on Wednesdays? Oh well.) My excuse for tardiness is the hectic pace of life in a New Year. Do the rest of you feel that things really speed up in the first few months of a year? For one thing, in...

Greetings fellow Coursers! So the groundhog saw its shadow so we're supposed to have six more weeks of winter. Humbug! What does some sheltered rodent know about meteorology? Studies have shown that the pampered rodent's forecast is right 50% of all Groundhog Days -- so no better than a coin...

Welcome, hearty Coursers, to the final full week of January 2021. My, doth tempus fugit when you are having fun. (Just a dash of sarcasm here, not to mention showing off my five years of Latin as a schoolboy.) Ah but on a quiet Sunday morning, we received a most pleasant and welcome phone call...

Happy New Week, hearty Coursers! Hope you are all doing well. The winds blow cold around here, for about the 10th straight day on our dawgwalk. Better than the hot air coming from sources other than Nature, if you know what I mean. (Not to mention specific politicians -- so as to adhere to wise...

Well, tomorrow (Jan.13) is a big day for we South Carolinians who check all the ancient and decrepit boxes. We can schedule appointments for our vaccinations. We will have a website to give us locations of vaccine providers and a phone number to direct us (let's hope) to the right scheduler for...

Dear Hearty Coursers, best wishes for this new week and of course the New Year in which we are placing so much hope. I'm thinking we shouldn't go hog wild with our expectations of cotton candy and rainbows over the next 12 months. No doubt there will be good happenings and bad in 2021, as with...