I’M NOT SURE! I am not sure I want to watch my salt intake as I get older. I don’t think I want to watch my calorie intake or make sure I am exercising at least three days a week. I think I am fine where I am at. When I was growing up…. When I was growing up, I played sports. Not like they do now—with water breaks and professional trainers. I grew up where you go... Read more
IT’S OKAY TO BE QUIRKY I think we are all a little, well, quirky. It’s okay to be quirky. We all have some ‘tick’ in our get-a-long. It’s been there for a while, some we remember having for decades. Like, I always make my bed. I have since I was a child. I’ve gotten better at it, but forever, I’’ve liked a neat room. I buy dented cans. I think who else will allow that can to live out their... Read more
It rained last night. IT’S OKAY TO JUST BE Just as I crawled into bed to read my National Geographic on pirates, it began. I like my magazine. It is easier to read than the book I am hacking my way through. The magazine has pictures in it for one thing. The book is too sciencey for bedtime which either hurts my brain or I fall asleep before I turn the page. I will finish the book, but it... Read more
IF I WAS PRESIDENT ‘If I was President’ is a term we hear a lot these days. That would be a God thing, like parting the sea, pulling some random guy off the bench from Phoenix to govern the greatest nation on earth. Frankly, I’ve heard it a lot throughout my years. Everyone has an opinion about what they would do if they were in charge of these here United States. It kind of depends what kind of mood I... Read more
I have a fantasy. Actually, I have several, but I want to share with you the one I had while riding my bike back from dropping Blue Ranger off at the dealer for an oil change and all-around tummy rub. Yes, I made it back without landing in the canal. The fantasy I want to share is good and right and happy and there is a toast and a cheer and applause. My headphones were on and Gordon Lightfoot came... Read more
Williams I HAVE DECIDED…. I have decided about which sample distributor I would be if I got a part time gig at Costco. We’ve all done it, those of us with Costco memberships or who have been with those friends with Costco memberships. For many, the weekend trip to the behemoth of grocery stores, a store where you can buy a pandemic sized bag of toilet paper, a mega-jar of pickles, AND a high-quality wedding ring at the same time,... Read more
I’M NOT SURE… I’m not sure anyone exercises for fun. People say they do to make themselves feel better about the suffering. I mean, exercising, really? “Yeah, that five miles up hill-both ways-yeah it was great. Only two blisters and the cramp wasn’t so bad today.” It’s like no one ‘likes’ scotch. We do scotch. Because our ancestors, the night before they were to go to war and all they had were sharp sticks, wanted to prepare for that axe... Read more
‘Listen to the doctor.’ For those of you who have ridden this trail with me over the years, you know sometimes, I find a song—or instrumental, and spin that thing until the repeat button breaks on my I-Phone. As I write this, I am listening to it for the Nth time. There has been a recent run by me on Doobie Brother songs to make my point, whatever the hell it was, I was writing about. Before there was Woke,... Read more
JUST US I’m a retired widower. I know I know most of you thought I was some thirty-sevenish year old commodities option fur trader on the NASDAQ. Someone who drives a Bentley and eats steak with broccoli. Someone who summers in British Columbia and winters in Quartzite. But I’m just a guy. I like things I like Gordon Lightfoot and would go to his concerts at Gammage decades ago. He is still alive—touring. I like The Raconteours playing... Read more
CAN CHRISTIANS HAVE SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE???? I was asked to write on a topic for Patheos. There was a list of topics and I penned another a few weeks ago which, apparently, they liked-at least to the point where they trusted I was not writing with crayons in my dead mother’s basement. I’m sixty-four so that would have made her, well, dead. There was a list of topics and I picked this one. Sex is always a good seller. I... Read more
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