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Author: Rob Spera

This Can’t Be How It Ends

Posted on April 23, 2025 by Rob Spera

While sitting in my Florida Room in front of the fireplace three days after Christmas and two days before my 68th birthday, sipping on a glass of champagne, I thought, this can’t be how it ends. There still has to be more. Several weeks earlier, I had been diagnosed with a medical condition that caused…

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Living our Best Life

Posted on August 8, 2024 by Rob Spera

Mountain Lioness, Rascal, and I are roaming around in the Blue Ridge Mountains for the next month. We are enjoying the pleasant weather at an elevation of 3,000 feet. Mornings start slowly. I wake up to the calm and peaceful presence of Mountain Lioness beside me. Rascal starts to wake up from his cozy spot…

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Destination Unknown

Posted on June 21, 2024 by Rob Spera

Mountain Lioness, Rascal, and I finally set off for the Summer of 24 Tour the first week of June. I don’t know when or if I am coming back to Florida. The only known destination this year is my dear friends Erica and Chris’s farm in Virginia. I am here indefinitely. I may head to…

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The Eye and the Cross Miracle

Posted on April 27, 2024May 18, 2024 by Rob Spera

  Last week was the most terrifying week of my life. On Tuesday morning I had cataract surgery on my right eye. My understanding of the recovery period was that I would start to get my sight back within 24-48 hours. All I saw the next day was thousands of swirling black dots. The next…

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The Solid Earth Beneath My Feet

Posted on November 5, 2023December 24, 2023 by Rob Spera

Ten years flashed before my eyes after I retired on November 6th, 2013. Each morning after I wake up, I swing my legs out of bed and gently put my feet on the floor. As I slowly stand up, I concentrate on the feeling and pressure on the bottom of my feet from the earth…

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