The end is near. All years have an ending, and then a second later on, new one begins. Regardless of what you believe about the very beginning of time, that’s the way it has been forever. I had a friend who had suffered through many years of being down on his luck tell me that […]

As the year comes to an end we can look forward to the Holidays.. The major ones are, of course, Thanksgiving and Christmas. There are others including the one to celebrate the ending of the old and the beginning of the new. These year-end celebrations seem logical milestones in the cycles of the years that […]

What can I say? This past month or so has been a real bummer. Hurricanes, one right after another. Each one doing what hurricanes do. Harvey, Irma and Maria have been particularly effective Politicians argue about everything, especially if it is not important (that is what they do best). And of course the guy in […]

Whew! I don’t know about you but hopefully you were as lucky as we were when we met Harvey. We evacuated. For unusual reasons we had not evacuated when Claudette came around way back then. She was a low numbered hurricane. As you all know Harvey was a four. We were trapped because Claudette came […]

Well here we are it is August already. It is a fair bet that most of us have not got two thirds of the stuff done we wanted to accomplish in the year. But the year never misses, When August is done it will be two thirds over. Last month I noted that July was […]