Update from Marty
Posted in deference to Marty’s many followers and friends. All your good wishes did not get me, The Bespectacled Reader, to Maine. Thank you all the same. On July 26th I received an email informing…
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Trepidatious Travel Ahead
By Marty Round Hi everyone, The Bespectacled Reader is back! Yes, of course, I am still reading a lot, but it has been interspersed with watching Wimbledon of late. One of these days someone other…
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A reading List
By Marty Round Hi! It’s your old friend The Bespectacled Reader, and I do mean old! There was such a warm reception to my last column that I thought I’d bring you up to date…
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Incentives
By Marty Round You know how sometimes you just plod along, fairly complacent with the situation at hand? Not willing to effect any changes that might be risky? I guess that described me for…
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Baby Steps
By Marty Round Little miracles! That’s what baby steps are. I am sure we all remember our children’s first time eating in the high chair, taking that first wobbly step, sitting to do his/her business…
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A Lament for Lost Books and Cars
By Marty Round A few months ago I wrote an article about downsizing. Some of you may remember it and felt a bit guilty. At that time I admitted being unable to tackle my enormous…
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It’s Amazing
By Marty Round What’s amazing? People, mostly. Little accomplishments, often. Life, in general. Many of you know already that I had back surgery in January and spent the next two and a half months…
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Downsizing
By the Bespectacled Reader Some time during the past couple of years, MCWA had two speakers, sisters An Marshall and Kit Zara. Their topic was downsizing. And that got me looking to that event in…
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Homecoming
By The Bespectacled Reader When you see that word “homecoming”, you immediately think of a warm welcome, perhaps smiling faces, good food in the refrigerator, maybe even flowers, all awaiting your return, all saying,…
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It’s the Little Things….
By the Bespectacled Reader This morning I hesitated to get out from under the covers. Not that I was tired; I wasn’t, but it is a chilly, but beautiful mid-to-late Fall day, albeit…
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Creativity is … Where You Find It
By The Bespectacled Reader Many Marsh Creek residents know me as the writer of The Bespectacled Reader column in the late Marsh Creek News Journal. Well, I have missed that creative outlet and now…
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