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SUNSET YEARS: POEMS FOR SENIORS WHO STILL LOVE LIFE AND EACH OTHER, is the first of a planned set of books that will be published under the SUNSET YEARS series title over the next several years.

","url":"https://frankalancione.com/america-21-blog-posts/f/sunset-years-to-become-a-book-series","title":"Sunset Years to Become a Book Series","summary":"SUNSET YEARS: POEMS FOR SENIORS WHO STILL LOVE LIFE AND EACH OTHER, is the first of a planned set of books that will be published under the SUNSET YEARS series title over the next several years.","date_modified":"2023-01-08T11:45:06Z"},{"id":"https://frankalancione.com/america-21-blog-posts/f/the-origins-and-purpose-of-the-goodlife-blog","html_content":"

For all of 2020 and into the summer of 2021, COVID and politicians held our daughter and grandkids hostage. My wife Diane and I live in The Villages, Florida. Our daughter and grandkids live in Seattle, Washington. Becau...

","url":"https://frankalancione.com/america-21-blog-posts/f/the-origins-and-purpose-of-the-goodlife-blog","title":"The Origins and Purpose of The Goodlife Blog","summary":"For all of 2020 and into the summer of 2021, COVID and politicians held our daughter and grandkids hostage. My wife Diane and I live in The Villages, Florida. Our daughter and grandkids live in Seattle, Washington. Becau...","date_modified":"2021-11-10T13:09:46Z"},{"id":"https://frankalancione.com/america-21-blog-posts/f/meet-compagno-nature-or-nurture","html_content":"

What a difference a week makes! A week ago we picked up our newest family member in Daytona Beach. He spent all of his first night in our new home hiding behind the dryer in our laundry room. We wondered if we had chosen...

","url":"https://frankalancione.com/america-21-blog-posts/f/meet-compagno-nature-or-nurture","title":" Meet Compagno! Nature or Nurture? ","summary":"What a difference a week makes! A week ago we picked up our newest family member in Daytona Beach. He spent all of his first night in our new home hiding behind the dryer in our laundry room. We wondered if we had chosen...","date_modified":"2021-10-17T00:39:55Z"},{"id":"https://frankalancione.com/america-21-blog-posts/f/the-big-day-is-here-wheres-the-cat","html_content":"

Diane and I got up early this morning, visited the Sunny Shores Cattery in Daytona, and picked up our new cat! Hooray! Only, since this is real life, things didn’t go exactly as planned.

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You can’t get what you want if you don’t know what you want

","url":"https://frankalancione.com/america-21-blog-posts/f/big-news-in-the-life-of-the-lanciones","title":"Big News in the Life of the Lanciones!","summary":"You can’t get what you want if you don’t know what you want","date_modified":"2021-10-03T11:23:41Z"},{"id":"https://frankalancione.com/america-21-blog-posts/f/epilogue","html_content":"

It’s a bad dream, but the kind you can’t wake up from. You are trapped. Encapsulated on all sides. Cars, cars, and more cars. You are caught in a sea of frantic, angry, drivers, all miserable, all hopelessly trapped alon...

","url":"https://frankalancione.com/america-21-blog-posts/f/epilogue","title":"Epilogue","summary":"It’s a bad dream, but the kind you can’t wake up from. You are trapped. Encapsulated on all sides. Cars, cars, and more cars. You are caught in a sea of frantic, angry, drivers, all miserable, all hopelessly trapped alon...","date_modified":"2021-08-17T10:46:47Z"},{"id":"https://frankalancione.com/america-21-blog-posts/f/bigger","html_content":"

As you drive into your RV park at the end of the day, you see a beautiful Class A motorhome. Class A motorhomes are the ones that look like buses. It is sleek, black with gorgeous red swirling graphics running the length...

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Had a horrible dream.

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You remembered vividly the first time you saw him. You were in your RV campsite setting up an evening campfire so your grandkids could cook s’mores. It was an RV park that also offered cabins for people to stay in. He wa...

","url":"https://frankalancione.com/america-21-blog-posts/f/legacy","title":"Legacy","summary":"You remembered vividly the first time you saw him. You were in your RV campsite setting up an evening campfire so your grandkids could cook s’mores. It was an RV park that also offered cabins for people to stay in. He wa...","date_modified":"2021-07-12T22:17:43Z"},{"id":"https://frankalancione.com/america-21-blog-posts/f/circle-of-life","html_content":"

The old man with the short cut silver beard leaned back against the deck of the pool and watched the scene before him unfold. A young mother and her two kids were playing in the water.

","url":"https://frankalancione.com/america-21-blog-posts/f/circle-of-life","title":"Circle of Life","summary":"The old man with the short cut silver beard leaned back against the deck of the pool and watched the scene before him unfold. A young mother and her two kids were playing in the water. ","date_modified":"2021-07-07T03:48:43Z"},{"id":"https://frankalancione.com/america-21-blog-posts/f/goals","html_content":"

Six months ago, December 2020, your country and your life were in the grip of COVID. Vaccines were a wish, a promise, not a done deal. It was thought at the time that you could catch COVID by touching a surface someone e...

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You try to take good care of your yard. You mow, edge, trim, fight weeds, feed the grass, water – all the good stuff. You’re not trying to win any contests. You’re proud of your home and you want it to look good. You’re ...

","url":"https://frankalancione.com/america-21-blog-posts/f/fire-a-nt-tyranny","title":"Fire Ant Tyranny","summary":"You try to take good care of your yard. You mow, edge, trim, fight weeds, feed the grass, water – all the good stuff. You’re not trying to win any contests. You’re proud of your home and you want it to look good. You’re ...","date_modified":"2021-06-29T14:19:47Z"},{"id":"https://frankalancione.com/america-21-blog-posts/f/volcano-walk","html_content":"

“I can’t believe it,” you say to your wife as you finally pull away from the entrance gate. “We just spent half an hour inching along in stop and go traffic out here in the middle of nowhere at 8:00 am, waiting to see ro...

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The RV’s engine changes sound. Your RPMs and speed drop. You downshift. Pick up speed. Conquer the hill. Set up for the immediate sharp downhill curve. The walls of rock tower over you on both sides of this narrow two la...

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Bryce Canyon National Park has the largest collection of Hoodoos – towering candlestick-like multicolored stone columns - of any place on planet Earth. The beauty of seeing thousands of these objects stretching across th...

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Out, out, brief candle!

","url":"https://frankalancione.com/america-21-blog-posts/f/geological-vs-human-time","title":"Geologic vs. Human Scale ","summary":"Out, out, brief candle!","date_modified":"2021-06-17T02:01:59Z"},{"id":"https://frankalancione.com/america-21-blog-posts/f/indian-boarding-schools","html_content":"

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

","url":"https://frankalancione.com/america-21-blog-posts/f/indian-boarding-schools","title":"Indian Boarding Schools","summary":" \"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.\" ","date_modified":"2021-06-13T22:00:32Z"},{"id":"https://frankalancione.com/america-21-blog-posts/f/american-beauty","html_content":"

US Highway 40 is one of the great roads of America. Once it stretched from the Mid-Atlantic states all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Today it still goes from the Mid-Atlantic to Salt Lake City, Utah. It is wide, and fast...

","url":"https://frankalancione.com/america-21-blog-posts/f/american-beauty","title":"American Beauty","summary":"US Highway 40 is one of the great roads of America. Once it stretched from the Mid-Atlantic states all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Today it still goes from the Mid-Atlantic to Salt Lake City, Utah. It is wide, and fast...","date_modified":"2021-06-12T04:02:22Z"},{"id":"https://frankalancione.com/america-21-blog-posts/f/everything-is-bigger-in-texas","html_content":"

Your friends dared you to do this. You probably shouldn’t have, but, oh well. Too late now. The announcer escorts you and your buddy up the raised platform to the high-top table at the front of the restaurant. About 300+...

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Racing down the expressway toward the city, suddenly it flashes into view. Even though you are rushing at it at 70 mph, you drive a long time before you reach it. It is massive, at least 20 stories high. It may be a city...

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We made it! We are on – not waiting for – our journey through America. The past few days are a blur, but a good one.

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It’s December 2018. You’re in Clearwater Florida at the statewide Senior Games Powerlifting competition. The prior lifter is just exiting the platform. Like a NASCAR pit stop team, the set-up crew is a blur as they start...

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We are in the final stages of preparing for our trip now. Some things are working out great. Others are a study in patience. What makes this such a big event for us is that we’ve never been down this road before.

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“How many more miles, Daddy?” “How many more miles?” My wonderful wife, Diane, tells the story of how at four years old she would stand behind the driver’s seat of her father’s car and tug on his sleeve peppering him wit...

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Whew! Packing! What a chore!

","url":"https://frankalancione.com/america-21-blog-posts/f/getting-ready-to-go","title":"Getting Ready To Go","summary":"Whew! Packing! What a chore! ","date_modified":"2021-05-24T19:59:05Z"},{"id":"https://frankalancione.com/america-21-blog-posts/f/looking-for-america","html_content":"

The Challenge

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