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 …

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 …

Snowbird, sunbird or no-bird, that’s the question my wife and I have struggled with recently. She retired late last year, and we agreed that those nine-degree winter nights that have hit Virginia in the past few winters are no longer Read More …

I finally found the answer to all my problems. As I might have mentioned previously, my wife retired and decided she wanted to be a beach girl. So, we sold our house in southern Virginia and moved to a condo Read More …