That is where I lived for at least an hour yesterday, putting a new drain in the bathroom sink. Seems the replacement pipes Home Depot and our local plumbing store carry are not spaced to fit our bathroom pipes. As soon as the “flexible sink trap J-bend” arrived via Amazon Prime (another free plug for that marvelous service), I got to work. I actually transformed into …

I think that DUH must stand for Dopey Unrecognized Happenings. Here are a few Duhs I collected from the past two weeks.

Not just on my shoulders. Yours, too. How do we know they are there? They are the coincidences — small and large — that happen to us all the time. Those angels know just when …

Did you ever go through a series of changes in your life — all in one or two weeks? Here is a list of the changes I have experienced recently. I stopped going to a lunch-and-learn class — which I had been attending for over six years. I stopped making popup cards –- that I had been making regularly for over five years. I dragged loads of …

Today, 30 tiny, powerful magnets and 24 steel collar stays, in four different lengths, will arrive via Amazon Prime. I was mesmerized last week when my visiting son demonstrated how collar stays work. I suddenly had visions of all my wrinkled, misaligned, and otherwise strange looking, collars standing to attention, as they magically appeared …

Here are some recent “Duh” moments. I saved these ideas on my iPhone’s note pad over the past two months.

As the months’-old president of the Culver City Democratic Club, Lee Sanders is enjoying himself more than at almost any assignment since retiring from everyday work. In that spirit, he agreed last weekend to tape a script for unique robo calls that would go out to “a few thousand” registered voters prior to last Tuesday’s City Council election.

This morning I was sitting at the breakfast table, thinking about the new cereal I was having. It was Kellogg’s Raisin Bran Crunch, and it tasted okay. As usual, I brought my bowl of cereal to the sink when I washed the dishes left over from last night. As usual, it was several minutes before I realized my …

Listening to Rabbi Rita at her Tuesday afternoon class, I had an epiphany. I realized that I was a less-than-very-sensitive individual. Sure, I thought I knew all about being sensitive to others. After all, didn’t I, as a young, single man, take that course in Parent Effective Training? Didn’t I espouse, during all these subsequent years, using “active listening,” giving “I-messages,” and solving conflicts by taking turns?

After attending a lecture last night about healthy eating, I decided, while in Trader Joe’s, I had to try their chocolate covered almonds. Just a dollar a bag. As I was finishing the entire bag of almonds, I knew I would not be able to sleep at night. Coincidentally, or by divine plan, I received an …