I am lying in bed, dictating on my iPhone’s Notes app at 1:11 a.m. Thinking about the eggplant slices I had for dinner last night. Actually, I am wondering whether I will get indigestion and will have to grab the Tums in my nightstand drawer. My eggplant memories go back several years to when I briefly enjoyed one of my … Read More

When I received my new external pond filter yesterday, I was excited at the prospect of having a clean waterfall pond.  Now I can buy several goldfish for the pond, and my granddaughter will be able to see them swimming on Sunday. I have had pond filters before, but they were all underwater filters.  That meant I had to take … Read More

That headline resonates with oxymoron. But hold on.  Here is my story. I had two issues requiring my presence at the Dept. of Motor Vehicles office.  I got a ticket for not having my month sticker on my license plate. And since I am turning 75 next week, I had to renew my driver’s license. Fortunately, I remembered I could … Read More

Next week I will be 75 years old.  That is a BIG number. I mean, it’s three-quarters of the way to 100. I will be closer to 80 than to 70. Just five years away from 80 – and the end of my term life policy. Ten years away from 85 – the age my dad died. But wait! I … Read More

I wrote an essay a year ago entitled, “BrainPOP Recorded.”  I explained in detail how I recorded BrainPOP educational cartoons to my computer.   A lot has changed since then, and now those programs are much simpler to record.  My latest hobby is recording Spanish BrainPOP cartoons, and learning Spanish,  new and interesting content at the same time. Recording BrainPOP, and … Read More

For years I have been buying pillows.  I own at least 15. Because of my cough with asthma, I used to sleep on three pillows. Flat pillows, down pillows, foam pillows with solid foam, contoured foam, crushed foam, and memory foam. A couple of months ago I took a risk. I awent from sleeping with three pillows to two pillows. … Read More

My wife and I started to write a blog this morning. It’s called “Dear Granddaughter.” Our granddaughter is 14 months old.  We love spending every Monday with her. We divided our blog into two sections: “This Week” and “Something New.” In the “This Week” section, we wrote about our trip to the Zimmer Children’s Museum in Los Angeles. What fun … Read More

I always have been interested in extraterrestrial life. Back to when I was a kid, so impressed by the 1951 movie The Day the Earth Stood Still. In that movie, creatures from another planet came to earth with an ultimatum: Be good and peaceful – or be destroyed. With all the problems our earth has, I hope that peaceful aliens … Read More

As readers may know, I save Duhs on my iPhone as soon as they occur. Otherwise, I would likely forget these amazing insights. No. 75 – Dish Soap For quite awhile I used a funnel to fill up the soap dispenser that is built into my sink.  It took quite a long time for the soap from the refill bottle … Read More