The mathematics of how you’ve already won a humungous lottery — BE F.A.T. To a biblical purist and my mother the correct answer is Sperm, “because God said so.” These were her exhaustive final words to my many inquiries about sex. Google Ask a Biologist and you’ll find all sorts of technical answers and proposed … Read More →
ESSAY/HUMOR — Besides drowning your troubles, in the event of an actual emergency, booze will be a hotly traded commodity — So I am curled up on the couch nursing the flu, sipping hot tea, and eating Cheerios out of the box. On a scale of one to ten my fever is purple. I waver … Read More →
Are you fishing to find happiness? Let’s bait the hook. Stop for a moment and take a breath. Exhale. If you ignore everything else that follows, remember to exhale, please. I still forget that part, which leads to constipated stress, which makes no one happy. So let’s talk happiness. We look for happiness in various … Read More →
Welcome 2015. God willing, we woke up today to celebrate the gift of today. We get to turn the last calendar page on the old year and welcome all the possibilities of a new one. I don’t know about you but I am a wonder-eyed child this time of the year! Thinking of all the … Read More →
Dear Friends, “Am I going to die?” As 2014 comes to a close, have you thought about all that has happened this year? Surely there were many joyous occasions and moments. Births? Weddings? Travel? A new home or job? No matter how your year was filled, are there some things you wished had been accomplished? … Read More →
For a woman I don’t have much of a shopping gene. A wife who does not like to shop? Makes me the envy of every married man known to man. You’d think shopping to replace a broken washing machine would trump dragging the laundry down to the river and beating it with a stone. And you’d be … Read More →
ESSAY/HUMOR — On a recent three day road trip to northern California our wallets were gouged by near $6 a gallon gas prices, fainting goats on strike and a spitting steam valve purported to be the “Old Faithful” geyser. With a Cliff notes itinerary and travel time a premium, our rental car quickly filled … Read More →
ESSAY/HUMOR/LOVE/MARRIAGE— The Happily Ever After Marriage handbook is filled with fine print. With a healthy dose of humor a marriage will survive lots of hills and valleys, and a few frogs. I’m in the backseat of a beat up Dodge Dart, sipping Boone’s Farm Apple Wine and listening to a guy describe how he’d shoved … Read More →
Essay/Humor – I’m signing a petition to allow adult children who travel with elderly parents to check them as overweight baggage. For a fee, of course.—- I’m 99% sure the whole business of airline security is a cat and mouse game. After the airlines added bag check fees we got creative at challenging metal detectors … Read More →
