I don’t know about you, but I do love a good rainy day. There is something calming about it. I thought retirement would be filled with many such days, but that hasn’t worked out. In fact, most of my days loafing around to read, write, or watch old westerns comes at the expense of my…
It seems like every day, these days, amounts to coffee with Dad, chores, then work on any one of many projects started. There is no shortage of things to do in getting this place up to a level suitable for Jen’s dreams. I might complain here and there, but never about the work, only the…
Over the last eight to ten years, this country that I served for over thirty-seven years has become barely recognizable. We have an ex-president, secretary of state, and too many White House councils to mention that are all under indictment for numerous crimes. I think the latest I heard; Trump is charged with over ninety-one…
I was watching a program this morning that had me thinking all day. Author, David Brooks, wrote an article for “The Atlantic”. The title pretty much says it all, “How America Got Mean”. He talks about how our value systems have changed over, chiefly the last eight years, and that the normal for today is…
Every year, in May, we celebrate the joy of Motherhood. Some do this by recognizing all mothers everywhere. Some celebrate just their mom. But me, it is all generations of moms from my lineage and all those in my life currently. Most of all, I celebrate and thank my mom for the life she gave…
Growing up, I guess until the age of 45, I never thought the tropics were something I would love. Man, it took me a long time to find something important that was missing. What was that missing element in my life, one might ask? Often, I think it is an intangible thing, but I’ll give…
Last November I was faced with the decision of taking social security at sixty-two or wait until some age between now and seventy or even at all, but I’m not opposed to social programs that I’ve paid for all my life. This decision is something I was pretty sure about it, as recently as two…
Lately, my conversation has been remembering things from my past. This doesn’t mean everything was about things I’ve done, no, some of it was remembering about a world less complicated. Kids were a dream with wondering what kind of people they would be. Times when politics actually made since instead of the modern-day shit or…
I was sitting on my dad’s couch yesterday morning, talking and sharing coffee, and as we often do, the subject of the FAA came up. We were talking about common people we knew and about career choices we made, when it dawned on me that April Fool’s Day 2023, today, was supposed to be my…
I think we spend most of our lives trying to figure out some kind of purpose. Some are lucky to find that early on and that might be a career or family. We often define ourselves by what we do for a living. Many people really have nothing they can pinpoint about themselves other than…
