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An abomination
Does two years in a row make for a tradition? Let’s say it does. My first post of 2025, on New Year’s Day, was about whether you should put pineapple on pizza (of course you should, it’s delicious!), so I thought I’d continue the tradition and write about food today. I am not one to…
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Good
You know the way it goes. You project. You anticipate. You plan. And then, at the risk of personifying an immaterial concept, fate has a hearty laugh in your face. It’s the idea that nothing ever goes as you expected (or wanted) it to. The ancient Stoics were a clever bunch. They realized fate’s capricious…
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Labor of Love
I have a saying: “there’s lots of people I don’t want to be.” That’s particularly true when I look around at some of my fellow retirees, who seem to have “stopped.” Stopped caring – yes, but also stopped growing and stopped changing. Change is life and life is change. You know what doesn’t change? Something…
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Janus, the two-faced god
Time has come to think ahead to the new year. And that means resolutions. But did you ever stop to wonder why? If no, or if you simply can’t be bothered, you’re in luck! That’s what you have me for. I’ll do the wondering and write about it, and you can get on with whatever…
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What is the magic of Christmas?
Whether you are Christian, and particularly if you are not, the Christmas season is hard to miss. It generally runs from late November thru to early January. Ostensibly, it recalls and celebrates the birth of Jesus of Nazareth in the town of Bethlehem, thought by his followers to be the long-awaited messiah or savior, prophesied…
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At a Loss
I am at a loss. Not for words, obviously, as I have plenty for you this morning. No, when this year began with the inauguration of Donald Trump to a second term in office as our president I made a decision, and that was to stop trying to work out what motivates him and explains…
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Sound off
I am, by nature, an introvert. I am not shy – nobody would accuse me of that! And I can hold my own at a party or in a crowded room. But when it comes right down to it, I’d rather be alone. And that, I am told, is the indicator. The test. Is ‘alone’…
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Attitudes toward AI
Everybody is talking about “AI” but few know what it is or its implications. My introduction to it has been largely positive. I have had “smart” devices in my apartment for over a year, “controlled” by Alexa from Amazon – though I have configured her to use a man’s voice, so you might say my…
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Orange please
I have already told you of how my life of crime was over before it began thanks to an ill-fated attempt to steal a flashing orange traffic barricade in the dead of night with a bunch of friends when we were teenagers. But that was not my only brush with the law. In my 30s,…
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A brief history of pink
We have a gentleman (ahem!, and I use the term loosely) that works here at my residence who is very enamored with the color pink. I often taunt him about it. And he retaliates by assaulting me with the color any chance he gets. One December, I awoke to find that overnight he had filled…
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