…comes in many different forms. Oh, you first hear about needing glasses in your 50’s, and it starts to get harder to lose weight, the hearing starts to pale, and you develop little aches and pains and as the years go by they get a little more intense, then there is the memory that is […]

…check up. Am taking my computer in for a kind of health check up. I do that every year or so. The IT surgeon will check all its’ vitals and get rid of all the junk that has accumulated. reinstall a security program, and back it up. I’ve been meaning to do it for the […]

…extremely bored. A few days ago I woke up and really felt down in the dumps which made me realize that I was just bored. I seem to be sleeping more, but yet am tired more. I should be full of energy but have no energy. None of this is making any sense to me. […]

…Flag Day, celebrated on June 14 every year, and is the celebration and recognition of the stars and strips. It took three Presidents to get Flag Day on the government radar. President Woodrow Wilson issued a formal proclamation for Flag Day in 1918 and President Calvin Coolidge did the same in 1927. But in 1949 […]

 …I had run into Publix, pre-quarantine, to pick up a few things and as I was looking over the available varieties of ice cream, one name hit me.  Otter Paws Ice Cream.  The name and the picture it conjured up in my mind, stopped me dead in my tracks, not the Moose’s Tracks, which was […]

…George Elwood was a night watchman for a large company in London. One morning as George was finishing his shift, his boss told him, “I’m going on a business trip to Norway tomorrow. My flight leaves at noon from Heathrow Airport.” Upon hearing this, George became alarmed and advised his boss to take the boat […]

…flooded back today as I came across a similar toy to the one above in a box of real estate memorabilia. This particular toy brought tears to my eyes as I remembered how I happened upon it, and why it has remained as part of my past that I bring along with me. I got […]

ducks. One day, after living on the preserve for more then 10 years a pair of very different ducks showed up. They were not like any other duck we had seen, either here or in NJ or Penna. They had very long legs that were bright orange, to match their bill. They did not waddle […]