I love dogs. I think dogs are better humans than most humans, no intended slight to any of my hominoid readers. Gratitude Friday is my...

It is Valentines Day, the day of love. One of the things I think about is who we are as a nation. Are we a mean and self-centered society...

On this day in 1964, the Beatles landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Pan Am Flight 101 from London Heathrow. I found a...

“We were fighting an American war, and we were also fighting an intensely personal war. We were in that war with every inch of our...

“ To survive you need to learn to hold contradictory things in your head at the same time. I am going to die; I am going to live. There...

Winne the Pooh was one of the series of books I learned to read from as a child. I can recall my mom and dad reading to me at bedtime...

This is a big year for me and for all in my cohort born at the midpoint of the 1960s. We are now or rapidly approaching the big 6 0....

“ If you're looking for a New Year where you won't have any problems, oh, you're asking for so much, my friend, so much! What you want...

“ Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards ” ― Søren Kierkegaard   Cape Spear October 2024 We are at the end...

“And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing...

“What is home? My favorite definition is "a safe place," a place where one is free from attack, a place where one experiences secure...

"[Floating in an isolation tank] is the first time that we've been without sensory experience, sensory environmental stimuli, since we...

This is a mostly a redo of a post from three years ago. I am pulling it out this gratitude Friday as it is one of my favorites.    ...

“ Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude .” ― A.A. Milne,...

I recently read a book in which the author reflected on the need to share what life was like before computers because, soon no one alive...