We began our annual sojourn to Lake Tahoe with a little twist this year. We delivered a truck to a friend, went to see our oldest son and his family and then on our way, finally to Lake Tahoe, joining our other son and family for a week of hiking, wine tasting, boat rides, bike…
The nine years have been a whirlwind, and everything is circling in the air with no landing zone for the near, maybe distant future. Why have people bought into the isolationist politics we are experiencing? I know I’m not alone either, but I’m still mystified by the people residing in the far right and left….
I haven’t been anywhere lately. I’ve been working on health, projects, and mindset. I spent a period of my early twenties not focusing and feeling overwhelmed with everything in my life. I was able to resolve that for near forty years, but here I am in my mid-sixties, and I’m face to face with it…
So much current affairs happening. It is really hard to keep up with the onslaught of change the new administration throws out each day. It seems so much of it to be smoke and mirrors to try some carnival move to get you to think the nut is under this shell, when it really is…
I don’t know about you, but 2025 has to be the craziest year ever and we are only a quarter of the way through it. Donald Trump, with a little help from his co-president Elon Musk, have single-handedly begun a destruction campaign on American ways of life. Unemployment has risen to over 4%, the stock…
I’ve said this before on several occasions that Fall or Autumn is my favorite time of year. Like many others, we are happy to welcome cooler temperatures and the colors of late summer, giving way to the vibrant, but dying colors that come from the changing season. Those early colors soon become leaves on the…
I’ve managed to make a career out of dealing with reality and fact-based solutions. Admittedly, I worked in a world of technology, and with that comes a very analytical approach to everything, some would say even a handcuffed to procedures mentality. It has also bled over into my personal life which drives my wife nuts….
Throughout our lives, we come to many crossroads having to make decisions on which path we’ll take. These decisions are based on one single factor although we make lists of pros and cons, it really comes down to risk tolerance. We decide whether the risk factor fits into our current assessment of life. Most of…
A few weeks ago, from out of the blue, I contracted double pneumonia. No lead in symptoms other than maybe a little drainage, but I went from feeling pretty good to cold chills in an hours’ time. The next day, I had a teledoc appointment and was prescribed an antibiotic for a possible sinus infection….
With the chaos going on in D.C. and the wholesale clearing house approach to firing federal employees to ensure only loyalists remain as employees, it is a travesty. Career employees don’t work with political aspirational thoughts. In fact, there is the Hatch Act that is to maintain a federal workforce that is free from partisan…
