As the year turns again to where it is no longer as big a deal as when I was much younger, I started thinking about some of the simpler things I’m thankful for. Mostly, it’s the little things …

Way back, say in the 1800s, there were “newspapers” – but in many cases, you did not receive the paper for days, perhaps weeks, or months. Imagine you’re out on the trail in a wagon …

Jerry Lewis passed away in 2017. He was 91. I read about an interview he gave the year before, when he was a “young” 90. He said, “I have so much left to do and so little time in which to do …

I am always amazed by nature. It is so all-powerful. I actually think (if nature can think!) that it has a certain disdain for humans. Mostly because nature has been around as long as our planet, …

Some things make me laugh that shouldn’t. Others make others laugh but are not funny (at least to me). The word Schadenfreude, adopted in English from German – where in German derives from: …

The other day, a friend happened to mention to me that they were having a hard time putting $200 together to buy something. This got me to thinking about whether putting $200 together was a unique …

For those of you who followed my Facebook page last year, each day you could see additional progress being made to the house we were building just down the street from our current home. What has …

I was rewatching the movie “A Social Network.” This is a great film about the founding of Facebook. As I watched, there were quite a few scenes about Mark Zuckerberg’s time as an …

OK, like many of you, we had the displeasure of involuntarily disconnecting from society due to the windstorm that hit us a few days ago. First, we lost power for almost a full day. Fortunately, …

I’ve often thought about our fixation on our professional sports teams. Locally, that includes the Seahawks, the Mariners and now the Kraken (oh yeah, there is a professional soccer team – the …

It’s World Series Time again. Each fall, when the Fall Classic approaches, I start to think of the “old days” of Major League Baseball. Now I’m old enough to remember the “old Yankee …