Do you sometimes gaze at the sky and at the stars, thinking “Whoaaa! Where are we in all this?”

It’s not easy to give up doing things that you have done for years — just because you are getting older.

When I went on the Intex above-ground-swimming-pool website last week to look for a rectangular pool that would fit in my backyard, I saw the blurb about doing away with chlorine. The blurb said that 90 percent of in-ground pools already use the salt-water purification system. Where was I? I had never heard about that. Of course, I did not have an in-ground pool. Maybe that’s why.

Many years before the home computer, I used to play with sorting rods and punch cards. They were the first home “computer-like” devices. I would place the sorting rod through the holes in a stack of cards on which I had written things like the names of countries and the items found on the state seals of those countries. The item I was looking for, say “trees,” would then show up when the cards with those items fell out of the stack. Now I could see which countries had trees on their state seals.

I just looked it up.

The word comes from the late Middle English (Medieval Latin) root meaning “bold.”

Can I write an entire essay about my beloved glue gun? Let’s see.

If we could suddenly change certain aspects of our personal image – just as easily as we use our image editing program (Picasa, Adobe, etc.) to immediately change aspects of our photographic images – how would that be?

How interesting it is that by looking carefully we can avoid all kinds of accidents.

What’s so great about soup?

I’ll tell you. You really can’t get it wrong.

I suppose I’m not the only one who has, at times, been bothered by lack of sleep.