We both agreed the two main actresses in the movie were familiar. Carol Googled both, but neither had been in anything we’d seen. About 20 minutes into the movie, we both could predict what was going to happen next. It hit both of us at the same time: we’d already seen this movie. Well, […]

   Major League Baseball may not be able to figure out how to divide billions into millions and so on, but baseball remains alive and well in this land of the home and the brave. You just have to know where to look for it. And we found it in the Mission Viejo Girls Softball […]

Dear Diary,   Reid genuinely surprised me with an offer to spend our 2nd wedding anniversary at Laguna Beach. He booked us into a wonderful hotel and made reservations at a great Mexican restaurant. That in itself would be special enough, but the best part of the reservations was that they were both set for […]

   The bloodied and mud bedraggled soldier burst into President Abraham Lincoln’s office and blurted, “The Confederacy has just engaged in legitimate political discourse on Ft. Sumpter, sir!”     Annoyed by having his concentration disturbed, Lincoln cried out, “My God, man, I just had this wonderful synonym for the number 80 right on the tip […]

   Professor Emmett Lazer, who led the Stanford University Dept. Of Physics to a number of Nobel Prize nominations, has been fired, according to Academics Director Lance Andrew “Slim” Pickens. “We feel it was time to move in another vector,” Pickens told ESPN in an interview earlier today.    The firing literally sent shock waves […]

   The moment I tested negative for Covid after testing positive for almost two weeks, sympathetic messages began pouring in. “So sorry to hear you’ll be out and about again,” was the general sentiment expressed. Since my symptoms throughout the two weeks were mild, there were no health worries; all I had to do was […]

   Carol and I joined the Omicron club this week. Her symptoms began a day or two before mine, and then we both tested positive for Covid. With all the grit and resilience of a Yonkers girl, Carol accepted her fate, making a pot of chicken soup (out of what was supposed to be chicken […]

   Dear Diary,    Well, I got a pretty good peak behind the curtain at how things would have gone in the house while I was away. (I postponed the planned spa weekend in Arizona that I’d won in a Covid vaccination contest sponsored by my health insurer, as a result of developing some last […]

   President James Madison sat at his writing desk, pen in hand, when a sentry burst in. “Mr. President, the White House is on fire!”   Madison bolted upright, nearly knocking himself out of his booster seat.   “The what?” Madison replied, on the floor on his knees and looking around for his pen.    […]

   So, what began as a humdrum weekend chaperone with Carol’s two oldest grandchildren soon metastasized into Carol and yours truly hosting a New Year’s Eve California beach party extravaganza for, now, six swarming, super-energized hormonal containment systems, otherwise known as teenagers. Or at least, that was how I was initially projecting the new plan. […]