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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about aging and entertainment. This turns out to be a surprisingly complex subject. There are too many variables. My wife and I have been aging, which comes with more money and diminished capacity. Meanwhile Read More …
The push for the self-driving car is on, including both gas-powered and electric (read quiet and stealthy) vehicles. I am against this movement for a number of reasons. I enjoy driving and consider it a sport. Safety becomes a major Read More …
TV commercials, I do not like them. Just when I get into the story, or the ball game gets exciting, they interrupt to try to sell me stuff. The TV commercials are loud, irritating, often disgusting and make the dumbest Read More …
Along the lines of opposites attract, in all fairness to my wife, if she had written this article it would probably read somewhat differently (think opposite of everything I’ve said). To begin with, our backgrounds are very different. I come Read More …
Daughters can be hard on Dad’s ego. I know this, having raised three daughters myself. (My wife may have helped some). There are several specific incidents where my daughters dealt me a healthy dose of humility. The first involved a Read More …
When our girls were little, Christmas at the Jessops was memorable. I grew up poor and wanted something better for my children. So, at Christmas I went insane. (See, it’s all my kids’ fault. I’m guessing my wife would disagree, Read More …
I’m married with children (No, I’m not Al Bundy. This blog is about cars), which requires that one’s life undergoes a carvolution (car evolution) over time. While lots of men would prefer to start with a hot car, things like Read More …
I married a cat person, who wanted cats, cats and more cats. I came from a dog family, where my mother had nasty little dogs like the Pekinese that bit me on the nose. (Perhaps as a young boy I Read More …
I recently had reason to ponder the issue of life, aging and the elderly. I have been aging for sixty-eight years, so I have some practice. I have joined the ranks of the so-called elderly, which came with some interesting Read More …
I’ve struggled to get a good night’s sleep for a long time. Thirty years ago, a young woman visiting the United States from Nicaragua rear-ended my car on the Washington DC beltway. She was doing sixty and I was sitting Read More …