For two weeks I commented repeatedly to Don about Stein’s weird haircut, which my son told me had been done by ****, a semi-exclusive hairstylist in The Big City. I tried to like it, but it was a cross between a shaggy cut and a Mohawk, with odd splits and wisps of hair sprouting around [...]

The $100 swimming pools caught my eye as I was bopping through Target in June. The grandkids were coming for a lengthy stay, and what better way to entertain them during the inevitably sweltering heat of July. Cheap as that, we could just throw it away at the end of the summer. Terrific! (Who am [...]

Our precious niece, who understandably no longer answers to her nickname, became a freshman in college last week. It really seems that it wasn’t that long ago we were stomping together along the tiny creek behind my apartment, searching for tree stars. She was Littlefoot and I was her friend, Cera, and we had many [...]

This beautiful German Shepherd, stinking of SKUNK, and wearing no collar, looked at me with her soulful eyes and I HAD TO STOP AND RESCUE HER. Seriously. No one ELSE was stopping for her and the question wasn’t IF but WHEN one of the speeding cars would hit her. Three days later, deskunkerized and I [...]

After years of neck pain, the degeneration of one of the discs in Don’s neck finally became a rupture the docs could see in the MRI’s and CAT scans. Yay! He’s not crazy or goldbricking! Vindication! Surgery! Ooooohhhhh. OUCH! I watched a normally very modest man lose all concern for THAT silly notion in a [...]