Another Day, Another Starbucks

At least I won’t have to come up with clever titles for a month or so. Right now there’s a version of “Santa Clause is Coming to Town” that sounds like it was stripped out of a Las Vegas casino’s holiday extravaganza. It really sounds like Wayne Newton singing, but I didn’t hear the credits,…

I added the Professor to my AAA membership last night in anticipation of our trip to Oregon on August. The car rental is far less expensive if we’re both on AAA, and I’ll feel better if he’s on it anyhow. The idea was originally to get him his own Triple A membership, but it was…

I had a strange dream last night, all the stranger for the fact that I remembered it. I know why I had it. Yesterday was the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. And yesterday I was speaking to friends about playing favorites with children. The anniversary of the moon landing leaves me nostalgic….

You can spin the light to gold. Summer goes out with neither a bang nor a whimper. The week is sizing up to be rain free. The days are starting out in the mid-fifties, and climbing to eighty or so. The trees are showing various amounts of color. The walnuts are always the last to…

You don’t know Woodchuck Cider, Brewski??????

I am not the center of the universe. I am not even part of the Oort cloud in most people’s universes. The question is, why does that come as a surprise every time I learn it? Less than complimentary things can be said about my ego some times.