It’s become sort of a catchphrase in our lives together. “I don’t want to see this in a blog,” Carol will tell me from time to time. Something has happened that has made us both laugh, and usually out of embarrassment: a foible, a slight mishap or just something you’re glad no one else […]

     One of the advantages of reaching “advanced” age without being religious is that you are free to imagine the afterlife any way you wish. And I had this thought the other day: what if your dreams are prequels to what your consciousness will actually experience when your body dies? For me, if true, […]

   We went to dinner  at our favorite sports bar last week. It was 4:00 p.m. There was a meeting of the executive committee of the It’s 5 o’clock Somewhere Club gathered at the bar, but all the dining tables were empty. We sat and ordered, ate, and packed up our leftovers to take back […]

A daycation (good old fashioned day out) holds a number of benefits for you. Here are some reasons why you need a daycation:

   Carol was visiting with her five-year-old granddaughter who asked her, as she usually does, “Where’s Reid?”    “He’s home,” Carol replied.    “He stays home a lot,” the little one opined.    Now, I know my way around five-year-olds enough to know the next time I see her, I’ll have to have a credible […]

No matter how hard you try, you can’t avoid cooking. Here are some great ways to make your time in the kitchen a little more fun.

  I don’t have any hobbies, at least in the sense most people understand them. Hobbies generally require time, tools or equipment and some level of skill. Hobbies are considered a good way to pass time, maintain an active, alert mind and stay healthy. There are people who paint, garden, collect, er, collectibles, restore classic […]

   If you drew a half-circle on a map that captured the forest fires we drove out of a week ago and the oil spill that occurred earlier this week off the Orange County coast, our house would now be half-circumscribed by two man-made disasters. “One if by land, two if by sea,” would be […]

   It wasn’t that Carol had been awarded a grand prize – for her and a guest –  that had me thinking it was a scam; it was more a case of it not being a scam that had me hoping it was. Three days at a wellness spa in either the invigorating desert air […]

   Carol’s daughter was in the midst of a search for a specific ottoman that had eventually turned into a quest. Every time she thought she located the piece, it turned out to be a phantom. Given my standard daily posture, I know how important an ottoman can be. Heck, an entire empire was named […]