Cruising along at 37000 feet, sitting in the window seat of a Boeing 737 headed to KC for Christmas. From up here, the sky is clear and bright blue, and the clouds, far below, look like a blanket of rough cotton. Nice day for a flight.
Ding!
"This is your …
more ...Today I enter my eighth decade. I have been around for seven decades now. Wow! For most of my life, anyone who was 70 years old was OLD. Not it does not feel that way.
One of my Mom's best quotes went like this (on her 71st Birthday):
I don't …more ...
I watch way too much TV. Wait! Actually, I do not watch that much TV. Instead, I sit in front of a TV, laptop in my lap (where else is it supposed to be?), and work, answer email, or do research. I suppose that is OK.
The TV is on …
more ...This is a day to remember those who gave everything to preserve the freedom we all get to enjoy. Those we lost cannot share in this day. It is our duty to enjoy it for them, and thank them for what they gave for us.
We owe a lot to …
more ...No, I am not paralyzed by fear. But it is 4:30am in the morning, when I should be asleep.
Instead, here I am, writing a blog article. Simply laying there in bed staring at the ceiling does no good. Maybe writing down my thoughts will let me get a …
more ...I like to engage my fellow human beings in conversations that take them to unexpected places. Most of the time, it gets a laugh!
My local 7-11 store has a really annoying doorbell that goes "ding-dong" whenever the door opens. I was standing at he counter, staring at an …
In my last post, I talked about my life long passion for learning new things. What happens if you decide not to live that kind of life?
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All of this is pure conjecture on my part. I do not really know how to live this kind of non-learning life …
What did you learn today? Did you intentionally (or accidentally) step out and look at something new today, and learn something in the process? I try to do that all the time, and I suspect I have been doing that my whole life. I have no intention of stopping!
Yesterday …
more ...I have wanted to tell this story for years, but never took the time to put it together. Unfortunately, some of the names are lost in the fog of time. The event happened about 35 years ago.
My good friends, John and Jayna, own a farm where we …
Here is a stupid story for you, written as we wait for an MRI about my vision issues tomorrow, and after cousin Bill just got back from asking some questions at our new fire station a couple of blocks away.
I started thinking back to the last time I even …
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