One of my best friends passed away last week. Today I took his name out of my address book. Now only his wife’s name appears before that last name. When I pressed the delete key it seemed so wrong. In an instant it was like...
Tattoos seem to have become omnipresent. They appear in all manner of designs and significance. Today I saw a new one. The wearer announced that it was to commemorate the bombing at the Boston Marathon. My first reaction was one of bewilderment that someone would...
Her size made her difficult not to see. She was more than ample as she rolled about under her sweat pants. She was accompanied by what were most likely her grandchildren as they made their way to a table beside us at a Dairy Queen. ...
This year’s flu shot has only been 23% effective. It has been the wrong medicine against this year’s batch of bugs. It’s not the first time we have used the wrong medicine. Just ask poor George Washington whose doctors bled him to death. Often we...
It was a beautiful and disturbing sight. There was a layer of snow decorating our patio and rhododendrons. Giant soft fluffy flakes were gently falling. A gorgeous male cardinal was accenting the scene. One would have to be blind not to be stunned by him. ...
Another week has begun and some of us on such occasions feel like an NFL quarterback surrounded by three hundred pound monsters whose only goal is to knock us down. Our entire team is depending on us to not only pinpoint our effort with precision...
It was so cute it was amazing. She was a tiny Chinese Vanna White or better yet like the models on the Price Is Right. We were at the grocery store and kept meeting this petite little girl and her mother because we were going...
Well, it’s over. The 1.6 billion dollar lottery has three winners. Millions of people, who bought a ticket, can now stop dreaming. (For now.) For two dollars, less than the cost of a small (excuse me – Venti) Starbucks coffee, people had dreams and hopes. ...
We do not hear with our ears anymore than we see with our eyes. Our ears and eyes are receptors that transmit received signals to our brains. Our brains then interpret and configure those signals into sounds or pictures. Now comes the scary part. Each...
With an 18 day old knee we thought it not prudent for me to be clearing the driveway. Anyway it was only an inch or so of snow. Surely tomorrow’s sun would take care of it. It did not. The next morning the eastern sun’s...