Perhaps it says something about me as a catch, but in response to last week’s post I did not receive even one suggestion for an…
Widowhood means you are single through circumstance, not through choice. Some refer to grief as a process that you must work through. I prefer to…
You can all lower your collective eyebrows, I am not dating. Although I have been considering the possibility. I waver somewhere in the no-man’s land…
Like the proverbial frog in the pot of increasingly hot water, sometimes we inure ourselves to growing levels of discomfort. It’s easy for most of…
Calvin, of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes made good use of his transmogrifier — a cardboard box which had the power to transmogrify himself…
Handshakes used to be considered a very important part of introductions and business relationships. Years ago, I met a salesperson who told me his company…
Living alone is one thing, but if I want to do things — and I do — it means that sometimes I will be by…
A meme is a unit of cultural information spread by imitation. Britannica.com My 1982 Oxford English Dictionary does not include a definition of ‘meme’. A quick…
Before he died of depression in 2018, I did not know who Anthony Bourdain was. I still have not read any of his books, or…
Dear Readers, The time has come for me to take a break from this weekly missive. The breaks I’ve taken in the past were because…