Regular readers know I have remained very close to my four college roommates facilitated by the fact that our wives manage to get along as well.  All in our first marriages, our time in service ranges from 25 years to 19 years.  A prospect we recently pondered over dinner that had/… Read full post »

Every once in a while something happens in life that startles you as if you were slapped about the head and shoulders with a cold, dead mackerel.  Sometimes it is all internally driven like staring at the old man in the mirror or realizing reading glasses have morphed from being/… Read full post »

Yesterday worried me immensely.  Bitter cold came to New England.  Denial won’t work any longer.  Winter has arrived.

I like winter.  I can’t stand the heat, getting crankier in the mid 80s and downright nauseous when it’s mid 90s and humid.  When cold/… Read full post »

It was a sweltering hot August Sunday.  My wife and I had stayed later than expected at the New Hampshire lake house.  A call came in from my cousin, telling us that my fraternal grandfather was not doing well.

Gramp had esophagus cancer.  At 92 something has to take you.  H/… Read full post »

Karin Rego's "Random Act of Something" compelled me to relay this story.

 My fraternal grandfather was the ultimate gentleman.  He had been mayor of the city in which he lived for 10 years and lost a congressional election by 300 votes.  With my father dying when I was 8, he took… Read full post »

The obligatory kid's trip to Disney was coming to a close.  I had performed this parental act of self sacrifice ten years ago with my three sons now aged 20, 18, and 16.  It had been planned to be a one shot deal predicated upon the youngest son hitting the height/… Read full post »

Thanksgiving absolutely represents the best holiday we have.  The only requirement happens to be to visit relatives and engorge oneself.  We all know relatives can suck, so that is why we have made sure we have football games to watch to avoid any in depth discussions with relatives we want/… Read full post »

The Republican Party, not having gotten the message in 2006, has been slapped down by the electorate yet again, only this time with considerably more feeling.  It used to be the Democrats controlled the coastlines, while the Republicans had the heartland.  The Republicans lost some of that/… Read full post »

I admit to being guilty of suffering fools lightly, but I have experienced a resent string of ineptitude that has me wondering just what the hell is up.  Is it just me, or are we losing the ability to think and interact with other humans?  If Porn has dulled our sexual… Read full post »

I have been watching T. Boone Pickens with great interest of late.  Here is a man in his early 80s with more money than a handful of people in this country out advocating economic policy changes that likely will not yield results in his lifetime.

Why?  What motivates him to do/… Read full post »

Now What?

Think of the greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit at the race track or the dog who actually bites into the tire of the car he’s chased for years to get wrapped around the axle.  Or, if odd imagery does not work for you, ponder the adage. “Be careful what/… Read full post »