Suprise Me

Alright, fast forward to the present: I was delighted that Mother Nature took center stage with a spectacular display of natural fireworks on the 4th! It was a relief for me, the wildlife and our already overly polluted air to take a break from another display of “we’re the greatest.” Read More

But I do think some of the changes necessitated by the pandemic will be positive ones if we choose to learn from them. Read More

In Copper Harbor, we always stay at the King Copper motel. Read More

We ate ethereal soufflés and listened to the pianist sample the Great American Songbook till closing. Read More

Even though the hairdresser at Best's gave me a terrible haircut, the trauma may not have been entirely her fault. Read More

Professor watches amazed as 16 students disappear into broadband stream Read More

The minute I saw the prompt, I heard Joni Mitchel singing... Read More

Post Office Philosopher  Recently two of my out-of-town friends had birthdays and as both are serious readers I thought they’d enjoy a good book I’d just read. So I bought two more copies,  wrapped each for mailing,  and headed to the post office where I found John my favorite postal guy behind the counter, “I’ll… Read More

It’s easy to laugh about senior moments when your parents lived long lives with their faculties intact. Not so easy for my friend whose mother and uncles all developed Alzheimer’s. Read More

Say It Ain’t So, Joe! Apparently cheating is nothing new,  even the Biblical King David cheated on a wife or two. And cheating in professional sports has been around for a long time too.  Even before Pete Rose and the pine tar,  and the Boston Patriots and Deflategate,  there was Shoeless Joe Jackson and the… Read More