This presentation at TED is well worth the twenty minutes or so it takes to watch it. It is refreshing to see an approach to staying healthy that is based on adding something to your diet rather than taking something away from it. Many thanks to my friend Tim Miller for pointing me to this [...]
I ain’t washing tomorrow. Oh, I’ll take a shower, but I mean I’m not washing clothes. Nope. I’m getting that done today. Not that I really believe that old legend commonly thought true (audio version by yours truly) by those adults in my world when I was growing up that if you wash on New [...]
The visitors have gone. Recycling to do. Stockings no longer hung. Crumpled wrapping paper in plastic bags everywhere. Managed to enjoy ourselves amidst and despite the stresses of the season wrapped as they were in a whirlwind schedule nobody could control. Ate, drank, sang, laughed, talked together. Exchanged gifts as seen on TV. Played with [...]
Looking out my office window, I can’t help drifting off into the memory that Carole and I were married on August 25, 1962, a mere 47 years ago today, at the Decatur (GA) First Christian Church. Dr. Charles Schwab performed the ceremony during which, in a move similar to that of Chief Justice John Roberts [...]
Last night I attended a board meeting where in an attempt to discuss some financial issues several of us huddled around one fellow’s laptop to try and see the spreadsheet he had worked on. He had done a nice job on the spreadsheet … I’m sure. And if we could have seen it, I’m also [...]
It seems to me the seventh is jinxed. Oh, I know it’s superstitious to say that, but that’s the way it seems. Carole learned her breast cancer had come back in her liver in November of last year. On the seventh of June she died, only about six months after hearing that news. When I [...]
You may remember that I wondered a couple of days ago whether you were permitted to and if so, how you might go about setting up more than one Twitter account. The answer, as I read the service agreement, is that it is permitted primarily because it is not expressly prohibited. My reason for wanting [...]
Most of you who know me know of my friend Paul Moor. He and I met online in a writers group back in the early 90s. In February on the first, I think it was, he suffered a stroke that left him aphasic and unsteady. His aphasia has improved considerably and even surprisingly already. [...]
Today is the 8th anniversary of the day I first put pen to pixel and created this blog. It’s been hosted at different locations from time to time, but it has been semi-continuously updated since that first Father’s Day in 2001. My one-year hiatus last year will be the subject of a book about what [...]
Here’s an email I just sent to my son, Jeff. I ultimately addressed it to both Jeff and Mike, but once I had written it, I wanted to share it with any of the rest of you who might care to read it. Jeff, You said this, “I apologize for my lack of contact as [...]