We had neighbors when we were growing up. Well, we kind of had neighbors. Living way out in the country the closest neighbor was 100 yards (100 meters) down the road. The next closest neighbor was a quarter of a mile up the hill. When your…
While setting up for my camping adventure last week, I pulled out my trusty dusty EMS camping sleep pad. It wasn’t ever the most comfortable pad in the world but certainly was a lot better than nothing. I’ve had this thing for fifteen years and it…
When I was a kid, probably five or six years old, my father was big into fishing. We would pile into the truck camper and head off to Pulaski to go fishing in the Salmon River Reservoir. There were six of us total so we were…
1979 found me starting at Cayuga Community College. I was in the Telecommunications Technology program and had every intention of become an engineer at a radio or TV station. That was before I found out that engineers did not make that much (less thn $20,000). I…
My daughter’s mother immigrated to the US from Russia when she was 21 years old. Karen was and is a very intelligent woman, bi-lingual with only a slight Russian accent. She has accomplished much in her life including beating cancer and become a nurse practitioner. I…
I don’t have anything in particular to write about today, or even for the past few days for that matter. This is what makes now the perfect time to write! Summer is here, or at least it is on paper. The temperature is 60 degrees and…
Every now and then I get a little stir crazy. Same old walls, same old halls, same old life. I haven’t had much in the way of vacations over the past two years. I am fortunate however to have a buddy that lives on the beach…
I believe there is a fundamental difference in men and women. Men believe what they see. Women believe what they hear. In general women communicate better verbally. When they tell you something, you best be listening because in general they say what they mean and mean…
I often tell people that knowing what to do isn’t complicated. It is usually quite simple. Doing it however can be difficult. Most things in life are the same way. Simple but difficult. We like to complicate things with all kinds of rationalizations. We all have…
If you are anything like me, and many of you probably are in this one regard, then you probably worry about way too many things. Worry is the precursor of anxiety, fear and doubt. And worry is a choice. We get to decide what we worry…