While researching material for an earlier blog, I came across an interesting statement about aging. …every decade after our fortieth birthday, our brains spend more time contemplating our own thoughts versus taking in information from the external environment. (Successful Aging by D

I’m going to tell a story with a moral.  An old man once traveled to Saudi Arabia to plead for oil from the reigning prince.  The prince, a man of middle years, enjoyed wielding power, and so he took delight in waving the old man away, certain he had humiliated his visitor. As the

My bank sent me a generic message about security upgrades to their electronic system.  They left a line in their message for feedback.  Mine was, “I hate change!” Security improvements are necessary, I know, because technology changes faster than Clark Kent can shed his business

It’s old news that a New York jury found former president Donald Trump guilty of 34 felony counts for falsifying business records before the 2016 presidential election.  He protested that the trial was rigged, naturally.  What else can a guilty man running for the White House a s

                                                         Long may it wave!

I threw a DVD  of “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” into my player last night.  I needed a touch of innocence to block out the television news.  Hard to accept but the real world had grown more fantastical, dark, and insane, than makebelieve. In the episode I selected,

Weaving in and out of the lunch tables at the retirement center one afternoon, I paused to sit beside a woman I hadn’t seen for a while. Looking up from her book, she frowned.  “Do you know the meaning of viand?” she asked.  Wondering if hers was a trick question, I answered t

The Heritage Foundation believes it knows what’s good for America.  That’s why I paused to read Kevin D. Robert’s Forward to its latest manifesto, Project 2025. Should Donald Trump be elected our President in November, Robert’s introduction to the document summarizes the chan

Gone fishing for the day.  Celebrating 13 years of blogging and 12 years of Just Read It video book interviews. I’m back next week.  Thank you, readers!

My U. S. Senator voted against the Ukrainian-Istreal aid package that Congress passed recently.  He said he opposed it because of  Benjamin Netanyahu’s conduct in the Gaza war.  I like my Senator. Nonetheless, I sent him an email that accused him of being long on principle, but s