July 26th, 2020 | Europe, General, Politics, Travel
I so want to leave. It doesn’t matter where we might go, just get in the car or take a cheap flight to some place we’ve talked about visiting, like Nashville, Tennesee, or Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Such domestic destinations are apart from our desire to see the lochs and...
July 18th, 2020 | General, Health
For the first time in sixty-three years, I can see the world with a certain clarity when I open my eyes in the morning, and yet I still reach for the glasses I expect to be on my nightstand and I fumble at my face to take them off at bedtime. The sight in my left eye...
June 10th, 2020 | General, Memory, Politics, social media, Society at Large
The phrase “police brutality” has been part of my vocabulary since at least 1968. That is the year that the Democratic Presidential Convention faced immense political challenges inside the International Amphitheatre and protesters clashed with literally thousands of...
June 2nd, 2020 | Family, General, Politics, social media, Society at Large
A while back I received a cryptic email from one of my brothers, J. I have some information that is very important for you to hear. I am pretty sure you won’t like it but your health depends on knowing what I now know. I’m giving you this initial heads up to see if...
May 22nd, 2020 | Gardens and Gardening, General, Health, Politics, the world and Mother Nature
This morning, I found an ear of deer corn dug into one of the pots of newly planted begonias. We are assuming the culprit is Elvirus, but it could have been a squirrel. We have a lot of squirrels and they plant acorns all over the place and make a mess of containers...
May 14th, 2020 | General, Health, Politics, Popular Culture
What the heck is with the fixation on the beauty parlor? You’d think that hairdressers were emotional support animals, for all the anxiety that separation from them has generated. Talking heads on news programs apologize for their disheveled appearances and...