Mark Twain said, “Clothes make the man.” What most don’t know is that being the humorist he was, he finished that quote saying, “Naked people have little or no influence on society!” My choice of clothing don’t really change me,… Continue reading

Dad had a stable full of horses for most of his life, except for a couple of years while we lived in New York City. When we would open the gate of the corral and let them out to pasture,… Continue reading

In our economy, investing for the best return is difficult. Five years ago, it appeared that real estate had no ceiling. “Buy property,” we were told, “It will only increase in value.” Well, that’s no longer true! Most real estate… Continue reading

A report published in 2002 by the CDC (Center for Disease Control), an agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services contains this statement. “Compared with unmarried people, married men and women tend to have lower mortality, less… Continue reading

Over 200 channels of programming flow into my house on the cable that stretches from the street. The sheer number of channels means that programmers can stick to one narrow topic. There is an Animal Planet channel dedicated to, you… Continue reading

To add variation to the game, card players sometimes designate one of the cards as “wild,” meaning that when played it can be given any face value the player desires. The phrase has now entered our vocabulary and is used… Continue reading

That’s what somebody posted online yesterday. The writer went into great detail about the dietary laws of the Old Testament and how ‘consuming’ the injection would make a person unclean before the Lord. They sounded very wise, but they have… Continue reading

“This is not a request, it’s a directive.” I said that to my children occasionally when they failed to follow directions. When they were teens, sometimes they developed an acute case of independence and decided that Dad did not really… Continue reading

People understand life, and thus are able to contribute to the world, in very different ways. I knew a young man that was severely disabled, unable to read or write, who could play a Lizst composition or a pop tune… Continue reading

Bev and I were watching a new crime drama (what’s with TV and crime dramas?) last Friday night. The story line was interesting involving a twist of time travel, as each character had an experience when they were able to… Continue reading