Monthly Archives: March 2018

Good Lord! I’d rather watch these videos on YouTube rather than in real life. https://youtu.be/i-DiutXkjIg Some of the clips are about accidents, but some of the are about daredevils putting themselves in harm’s way. DPLDT. It clearly works for them. … Continue reading →

I received this email from Kaitlin this morning: Subject: OMG This from the pet sitter – less than two hours after we left… Ruh,roh… Tempi must have sensed that you were going away. She got into the disaster control kit. … Continue reading →

Unfortunately, stuffed toys aren’t always enough to keep pups out of trouble. Kaitlin sent this email the other day: From the sitter: “Ruh,roh…. your laptop screen was on the floor in the hallway by the front door. No clue where … Continue reading →

It’s not just social media, of course. One of my favorite teachers of all time taught my second semester of world history in high school. He would sometimes say something outlandish and then add, “It must be true, I read … Continue reading →

We love the precipitation, and it was over by 3 p.m. Oops! It came back: 435 p.m.: What a neat afternoon! March 27, 2018  

This comic reminds me of the last two posts at Still the Lucky Few about searching for the look of youth. I gave up that idea years ago, long before it became hopeless for me. Jenny Joseph’s approach was a … Continue reading →

When a big tree falls across the road, Andy paces himself and clears it off over several days. He took these pictures after the first day. He first saws off all the branches and throws them to the side of … Continue reading →

Do you ever get completely immersed in something and lose track of the time? I do — often — and it’s one of the things I’m most grateful for. March 24, 2018  

Another Quora.com question was What are some things you realize as you get older? One answer was I’m just as happy with $5 t-shirts from Wal-Mart and $20 jeans from Costco as I was with my insistence on expensive designer … Continue reading →

I received this email this morning from The Guardian, one of the newspapers I donate money to. Hello, If you have been following the Cambridge Analytica files, our investigative series on the company that harvested millions of Facebook profiles to … Continue reading →