Fifty-Eight and Finished

Today, Saturday, March 19, is my birthday. Well, around 7pm will be the official mark of my 58th year of life. I was born on my uncle Tom’s 15 birthday and he and I were best of friends until his death on April 17, 1987, at the young age of 49. We had a lot [...]

What do you think the odds are that anyone in the United States can be killed by an earthquake in Japan? Astronomical would be my guess. But it happened. And who could have guessed the person stupid enough to be killed by an earthquake in Japan would just happen to live in California? I looked [...]

No, I don’t look like my mother, though I’d rather favor her than my father! “You look like your mother” were the words spoken to Janice on Sunday evening by Jeri. I’d forgotten Jeri and her husband, Harry Robert, were apartment mates with Jan’s parents at Pepperdine back in the 1940s. Jan’s mother was a [...]

Consumer Power

Recently I wrote about a minor misunderstanding at McDs involving a honey mustard sauce for my chicken sandwich. You can read it here. Last week we were there for a fast lunch and I ordered the homestyle chicken sandwich again, only this time I was willing to pay the fee for the dipping sauce. Had [...]

Car Decal

There is a “back” way from our mortuary to our home that used to keep us out of the 5:00 traffic each afternoon. But the back way has become just about as crowded as the main route. Still I take it many days. At one point, a two lane road divides into a turn lane [...]