Should I Live to see 90 … I had no idea there was something called a “bucket list” when I was raising hell all over the world between the ages of 16 and 40 … I suppose we should introduce a bucket list of sorts to our kids at a much earlier age. In any [...]
Date: Friday, December 23rd, 2011 Time: Noon (and just woke up) Status: Having “the gift” Info: I have a number of things on the “to do” list today, including clearing the gutters, and recycling about 60 pounds of glass and untold number of plastic water bottles. My English bulldog “LuLu” has already received her morning [...]
As you know I live with three women and a female English bulldog. Why do I start things this way? I start things this way to make a point. I hope it ends that way. The women in my life live without sidelines, boards, a foul pole or baseline. They know not of what I [...]
This blog is about energy. Not the green kind, not the kind that costs us nearly $4.00 per/gallon, and not the kind created by the enormous wind turbines along the Pacific coast. This one is about my “weekend energy” which now belongs on the side of a milk carton under “MISSING, HAVE YOU SEEN? How [...]
While standing at the end of the driveway last night watching the winds strips the trees of every possible leaf I thought back to a time in our lives when we first moved in with each other. We had just moved into our first apartment in the tiny village of Woods Hole. Believe me when [...]
Date: Thanksgiving 2011 Time: Halftime (Green Bay vs. Detroit) Status: Forever Grateful Info: While we’re bombarded by the media on Black Friday sales and Cyber Monday marketing, there’s very little the ad campaign industry does to promote this one day in our autumn where we pass along our gratitude to those in our lives that [...]
Date: Sunday, November 20, 2011 Time: Morning Status: A Fresh Set of Downs Info: I remember not that long ago when Saturday and Sunday mornings were spent wondering if my bride was going to continue her “vicadin vacation.” Sunday mornings were normally spent planning the week’s menu, putting together a grocery list and working with [...]
The day started off like most with a few minor wrinkles. I think the term wrinkle is appropriate for this blog as it involves the passing of another year and a new crooked number is posted on life’s scoreboard. The first few texts I received yesterday morning were from very dear friends reminding me of [...]
Even criminals need partners. We all need someone to hang on onto – to trust – to prepare ourselves for each day. Children prepare themselves for their mirror in the morning before breakfast. Teenagers, if they can find the mirror, prepare themselves for their girlfriends, their pals, themselves. Adults, well we prepare ourselves; as best [...]
Our friends in the northeast get walloped with the first “dusting” of the winter! The photos we’ve received do not resemble the peace and beauty here along the Pacific. In one quick blast, the plans for many were seriously disrupted. Downed trees and electrical lines and all the varied elements which come from living within [...]