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As both faithful readers know, I was born in Oklahoma and have Native American or American Indian blood. I’ve never made too much of it, but over the years I’ve collected, and been given pictures, proverbs and stories handed down … Continue reading →

I read an interesting article in this morning’s Washington Post. It was titled, “The end of everything,” and discussed the fact that there is a trend in the publishing world to title books that proclaim “the end…” such as The … Continue reading →

Well, I said it would never happen — no more moving. But the weather finally go to me. This cold weather is ridiculous. We’re moving to Hawaii!! Got real lucky and just the right person(s) came along and we got … Continue reading →

We had lunch with Kelly, Chris and Emily today and I asked Emily about the Easter Bunny. She doesn’t really grasp the concept yet and I guess I can see why. The idea of an egg-laying rabbit isn’t intuitively obvious … Continue reading →

Well, here it is the 24th of March and the weather prediction is for 2 to 4 inches of snow tonight. Since I have no earth shattering topics on my mind at the moment, I guess I can fall back on … Continue reading →

If you’ve ever called our house, there’s about a 99.999% chance that Claire — or no one — has answered the phone. I rarely answer our home phone — I say it’s because it’s never for me anyhow, if people … Continue reading →

Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Seems like every year I think it’s necessary to write something about St. Patrick or green, or beer, or Ireland, or something…. Well, might as well carry on the tradition, even though there is a limited … Continue reading →

A few days ago I wrote about curmudgeons and pretty much admitted that I might actually be one (not that that’s a bad thing.) One characteristic or trait that possible curmudgeons have is that they want things like they used … Continue reading →

In my “working days” when one of my projects needed money that hadn’t been budgeted, I found that when I went to the boss or the board it was always easier to get more money than less. If I indicated … Continue reading →

Claire often refers to me as a curmudgeon. I seem to have noticed that she uses that term more in the past few years — maybe that’s because I’ve been trying to listen to her more lately — expanding my … Continue reading →