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Homestead
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend."
- Melody Beattie
Because not everything about life is travel. The majority of early retirement is spent here, at home, with the person you love.
Here you will find random stories of home and life in no particular order.
In My Eyes
May 2024 “We said we'd walk together, baby, come what may That come the twilight, should we lose our way If as we're walking, a hand...
Glenn Dobbs
May 4, 20244 min read
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A Wedding Toast
“Always remember there was nothing worth sharing Like the love that let us share our name” - The Avett Brothers It is not often that a...
Glenn Dobbs
Apr 29, 20232 min read
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A Christmas Poem
December 27, 2022 So this is Christmas And what have you done? Another year over And a new one just begun And so this is Christmas I hope...
Glenn Dobbs
Dec 27, 20221 min read
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In the meantime
May 26, 2022 “….But this is what I’m finding, in glimpses and flashes: this is it. This is it, in the best possible way. That thing I’m...
Glenn Dobbs
May 26, 20222 min read
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Naming Day
“(We) Talk of poems and prayers and promises and things that we believe in How sweet it is to love someone, how right it is to care How...
Glenn Dobbs
Apr 11, 20223 min read
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A Thanksgiving to Remember
“You’re wrong Jenny….I know what love is….” - Forest Gump Yes I know Thanksgiving has long since past. However, the holiday was unique...
Glenn Dobbs
Jan 6, 20225 min read
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Catahoula Days
“Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked into...
Glenn Dobbs
Aug 8, 20219 min read
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Overhead Flights
“It’s very liberating” - Former President George W Bush after receiving his second vaccine injection. After Flash’s passing things...
Glenn Dobbs
Apr 26, 202111 min read
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Chasing Fireflies
“And again, a few minutes later, a whisper to himself under the sky’s collapsing cobalt: Look the color! There are colors in his spectrum...
Glenn Dobbs
Mar 5, 20214 min read
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A Nice Round Number
“Age. Age brings wisdom and the fine clarity that one gets at midnight on the tracks looking into the lights of an oncoming train. It...
Glenn Dobbs
Feb 28, 20215 min read
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A Ghost Story
“Never tell too much. The monster is always scarier when it is still under the child’s bed” Stephen King Recently, I was looking for...
Glenn Dobbs
Jan 23, 20216 min read
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Between Two Needles
“So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids...
Glenn Dobbs
Jan 11, 20215 min read
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Today, the Confederate Flag flew in The United States Capitol
"It's going to be wild...." "...Remember this day forever" - Donald Trump “We’re in! We’re in! We’re in! We’re in! Derrick Evans is in...
Glenn Dobbs
Jan 7, 202110 min read
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The Dobbs' 2020 (Vague &Unsolicited Anecdotes Issue # 35)
“Among the 41 confirmed cases, there has been one death. This death occurred in a patient with serious underlying medical conditions.” —...
Glenn Dobbs
Dec 20, 20206 min read
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Something besides Netflix to Watch
“The chicken strode the field as if it was hers. Every worm in the rich brown soils was hers for the taking and she was utterly focused...
Glenn Dobbs
Nov 17, 20206 min read
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Occam's Razor
“Abraham Lincoln said it best when he spoke “A house divided against itself cannot stand”. We are amid that historical lesson now my...
Glenn Dobbs
Nov 15, 20207 min read
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It's Morning Again
"With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the...
Glenn Dobbs
Nov 7, 20203 min read
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The Shadows of Mordor
“….(He) needs only this ring to cover all the lands in a second darkness” -J.R. Tolkien “There's got to be a morning after If we can hold...
Glenn Dobbs
Nov 4, 20203 min read
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Tomorrow
"(Is America the greatest?)........It sure used to be… We stood up for what was right. We fought for moral reason. We passed laws, struck...
Glenn Dobbs
Nov 2, 20205 min read
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They BETTER lay eggs!
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order,...
Glenn Dobbs
Nov 1, 20204 min read
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I wasn't going to...but
"This sums it up pretty nicely...done by some else. I just think this election, apart from corruption stuff comes down to these issues....
Glenn Dobbs
Oct 16, 20206 min read
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A Grace Note on the Heath
“Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult” -Edmund Gwenn “I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in...
Glenn Dobbs
Sep 13, 20205 min read
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Postcards from the Edge (Notes on a Pandemic - Part 16)
“To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took no care To...
Glenn Dobbs
Sep 2, 20208 min read
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In the Frozen Earth (Notes on a Pandemic Part 15)
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information...
Glenn Dobbs
Jul 13, 202011 min read
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The Worst Year Ever? (Notes on a Pandemic part 14)
“Through it all the angry, blustering tweets issued from the White House like panicked bats fleeing flames in the smokestack.” - Peggy...
Glenn Dobbs
Jun 26, 20206 min read
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I used to be one
“This is an awful man, waving a book he hasn’t read, in front of a church he doesn’t attend, invoking laws he doesn’t understand, against...
Glenn Dobbs
Jun 8, 202014 min read
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A Bad Week (Notes on a Pandemic part 13)
“In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom...
Glenn Dobbs
May 30, 20206 min read
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Talk of Poems, Prayers, and Promises....
“Life is only real, when shared” -Christopher McCandless The past few days Colleen and I have been remodeling my office in the house. ...
Glenn Dobbs
May 25, 20203 min read
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Ättestupa - Notes on a Pandemic (Part 12)
“Ättestupa (Swedish for 'kin/clan precipice') is a name given to a number of precipices in Sweden. The name supposedly denotes sites...
Glenn Dobbs
May 7, 20206 min read
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There's Something About Mary - Notes on a Pandemic (Part 11)
“History does not repeat itself. But, it does rhyme” -Mark Twain “Cooks work sick. They always have. Most jobs, you don’t work, you don’t...
Glenn Dobbs
Apr 29, 20209 min read
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Rocketman
“And I think it's gonna be a long long time 'Till touch down brings me round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home Oh no...
Glenn Dobbs
Apr 27, 20206 min read
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Notes on a Pandemic (Part 10)
"Any country can follow a series of measures that are very cheap and can dramatically reduce the epidemic: mandate wearing home-made...
Glenn Dobbs
Apr 26, 20202 min read
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Notes on a Pandemic (Part 9)*
“I think the message is that, clearly, this is something that is hurting from the standpoint of economics, from the standpoint of things...
Glenn Dobbs
Apr 23, 202013 min read
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Notes on a Pandemic (Part 8)
“For the first time in history there is a fully signed Presidential Disaster Declaration for all Fifty States. We are winning, and will...
Glenn Dobbs
Apr 12, 20208 min read
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Notes on a Pandemic (Part 7)
"I knew everything. I knew it could be horrible and I knew it could be maybe good….I don’t want to be a negative person. I’m a...
Glenn Dobbs
Apr 9, 20206 min read
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The Folding
“With enough butter, anything is good” - Julia Child At the end of our last episode I wrote a piece called “The Moments of Happiness”....
Glenn Dobbs
Apr 5, 20205 min read
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Notes on a Pandemic (Part 6)
“This is nothing. The flu kills more people every year” A friend of our family who is a resident at a local nursing home “Pain is...
Glenn Dobbs
Apr 1, 20206 min read
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Notes on a Pandemic (Part 5)
“I don’t believe you really need that many ventilators” - Donald Trump during an interview with Sean Hannity last night “It’s going to...
Glenn Dobbs
Mar 27, 20204 min read
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Notes on a Pandemic (Part 4)
"Netflix has been asked to limit services for fear of breaking the internet" - News report yesterday afternoon "I will follow you into...
Glenn Dobbs
Mar 20, 20204 min read
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Let's Hope Not
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people...
Glenn Dobbs
Mar 14, 20203 min read
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Notes on a Pandemic (Part 3)
“Oh F**k……” - Donald Trump caught on a hot mic moments before he addressed the nation Ok, last night we were treated to the following 9...
Glenn Dobbs
Mar 12, 20206 min read
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Notes on a Pandemic (Part 2)
"I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it. Every one of these doctors said, 'How do you know so much...
Glenn Dobbs
Mar 10, 20203 min read
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Bath time
"I think it is important to try to get to know someone before you think about bombing them" - Rick Steves I try not to write to much...
Glenn Dobbs
Jan 7, 20203 min read
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Snowflakes & Air Hockey - A Christmas Letter
“These modern productions are all very well, but there nothing to equal, from what I hear tell…that moment of mystery….” Gus - the...
Glenn Dobbs
Dec 22, 20194 min read
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I let time go lightly
“Time it was And what a time it was It was . . . A time of innocence A time of confidences” - Paul Simon “If you live to be 100, I hope I...
Glenn Dobbs
Dec 1, 20193 min read
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California Dreamin' - A Thanksgiving Story
"Dad, when I go to Stanford I am going to get you a boat!" - 13 year old Stephen Dobbs "Today was the best day of this entire trip" -...
Glenn Dobbs
Nov 27, 20195 min read
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Some thoughts on 'The King'
"We few, we happy few...." - Henry V in William Shakespeare's play WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD I know, I know, it is a little odd to be...
Glenn Dobbs
Nov 14, 20194 min read
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About those revels
It seems silly not to say something about it. ‘Bard Fest’ - the Shakespeare festival I produce each year finished it’s fifth season...
Glenn Dobbs
Oct 31, 20192 min read
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MacBeth - A Love Letter
I think people might find all the hugging we do backstage a little strange. Here we are telling the story of a murderous King and people...
Glenn Dobbs
Aug 2, 20193 min read
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Its hard to be Jon Snow
June 30, 2019 We have all done it. You watch an exciting movie with a sword wielding hero and think, “I could do that”. When you are...
Glenn Dobbs
Jun 30, 20194 min read
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