Sandi and I were once a part of what I will call the broadcast television generation. What this means to me is that many of our evenings were focused around the prime-time hours from 9pm until 11
o’clock. Many of the shows that we watched from week to week were nestled into the 10 o’clock time zone and so bedtime for us was most normally about a few minutes after 11. Realistically we could
then get a full 8 hours of rest by awaking at 7 and still get to work by 8. This was our pattern for …
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By common definition a “conundrum” is a confusing and/or difficult problem or question. Not so much like being between a
rock and a hard place but more like an unsettled feeling that hangs around far to long after the party is over and everyone else has left the building.

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All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players:

They have their exits and their entrances;

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Gardening has been one of the joys of my life since Sandi and I moved to North Carolina in 1978 from Michigan. Every year is different and yet
every year is somewhat the same. The one constant I have learned is the fact that every year we bring a little more knowledge and understanding to the process of growing food in dirt. All
gardening efforts begin in dirt and hopefully end up in soil that has been …
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The daily newspaper has been a part of my life for as far back as I can remember. My earliest newspaper memories are of my father, sitting in his chair after dinner, with the evening
paper unfolded in front of him. The paper was so big that all you could see of him were his legs and hands. I can still hear the rustle of the pages being turned and the sense of security I felt
being a part, though only observant, of that daily routine.

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I can’t escape the feeling that my father, who would be 92 today, would still be alive if he had a smartphone to take with him during his visits to the “library”. And when I say library I don’t mean … Continue reading →

I sometimes wonder if our children think that we as parents (now grandparents) have saved our best stuff for last. I am pretty sure that at some level my youngest daughter thinks that I do all this
cool stuff with the grand babies and that somehow she didn’t get that kind of attention. And while it is true that our kid tricks have gained traction over the years, they each got the best we had to
give at the time.

What is true is the fact that we as grandparents can be more …
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It is interesting to note that we never fully leave our past behind—those seminal events linger in grey matter spaces that seem to open up every once and a while and present themselves for minor
reviews or introspection.

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I am a firm believer that the process of understanding what we “believe” is an ever evolving sort of thing. A building is raised up piece by piece: it takes months for a house to become a home—a place where … Continue reading →