For several years, Sherry and I have enjoyed the company of Snoop, a gopher snake who looks like a huge rattler. When I first met Snoop, I nearly stepped on him – and he didn’t like it. He scared me silly. After my initial panic, Sherry and I observed that this mammoth snake …
I’m in my favorite store looking for a couple new pairs of pants. It isn’t a typical clothing store because it also sells fishing gear, golf clubs, batteries and a huge selection of lumber and fencing in the back. After strolling around for a while, I find the men’s pants. …
Today is my birthday. I’m turning 74, and I’m thankful. I’m a lucky guy. I have a family who loves me and accepts my peculiarities – most of the time. I’ve worked for the same spectacular company for over 30 years. My fellow employees allow me to tell stories during lunch …
So I’m minding my own business (watching a robin pull a worm out of the damp soil) and my wife, Sherry, says, “You should throw away your old pants.” I say, “My pants look as good as new, particularly my brown pair and the gray ones I bought on sale at Bledsoe’s.” …
Something else is growing old with me: the use of cash for buying stuff. I don’t care where I go to make purchases – I am the only one in line who jingles coins in my pocket and has dollar bills in my wallet. Everyone else whips out a debit or credit card and waits …
It’s amazing how much I’ve been gifted in my life. Although I did not come from a wealthy family, my mom and dad made sure I had everything a young boy needed – and often special gifts that were unexpected and made me feel super-duper. At school – grade school, high school …
I thought my desire to win at games would diminish with age. It hasn’t. It may have gotten worse – until today. My wife, Sherry, and I play games of gin rummy to 1,000 points. We face off every day and keep accumulating scores on a big yellow sheet as the week clicks along. …
I don’t want you to get the impression I sneak around following people all day, but once in a while I do enjoy watching folks’ movements when they don’t know I’m tracking them. Today was one of those days. I was floating around Costco, checking out free food samples. Sherry …
Have you ever experienced a special moment when you said or wrote something really extraordinary, something gloriously creative, and you thought the world must learn of your wisdom? Maybe you are blessed with the humility and intelligence to recognize the probability of this …
In a wonderful new book, “Elderhood,” Louise Aronson, MD, delves into aging that’s “neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy – a vision full of joy, wonder, frustration, outrage and hope…” I was captured from the first chapter, titled “Life,” through the final page. It’s not …