I’ve never been good at vacationing. I can only really remember one planned family pause as a kid. I think it was to Charlevoix, MI or Sandusky, OH. The five of us, drove for what seemed like forever in our two-toned blue, 1952 Chevy and stayed all together in a…
Even though this was my most fervent blow-out-the-candles wish, I’m sad, very sad indeed, to report that this is, unquestionably, an impossibility. There is no evidence whatsoever, that human beings have the capacity to even imagine such a thing. Since the dawn of our species-dominant, upright beginnings, our tendency has…
stu·pid /ˈst(y)o͞opəd/ adjective having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense Very likely, I’m stupid. I’ve read the articles and listened to wiser, certainly more erudite disdainers of derogatory name calling describe, often in great detail, the Quixotic frivolity of calling out those who can’t or just…
I’ll be 75 in two days and I thought I had learned a thing or two along the way. Turns out, knowing a lot of the questions to Jeopardy answers does not make it so. The big smarty pants topics remain a total mystery to me. The meaning of life…what…
Although it’s not a clever acronym for the points of the compass, the word NEWS has maintained a lofty importance, far greater than its mere four letters, for the better part of four centuries. There’s a long, continuous arc from trusted confidents collecting tidbits of information to whisper in the…