My wife was listening to a Scott Galloway interview, today. Per usual, I overheard enough to think, “Yes. He’s right about that” followed shortly by, “Jesus, Dude. You can be a real dick, sometimes.” Masculinity, it seems, can be characterized by some as the tendency to say what you are thinking with assertive language. To …
Month: May 2026
I didn’t know this, but Memorial Day used to be referred to as “Decoration Day.” On this day, the custom was (and still is) to decorate the graves of fallen soldiers with flags, Red poppies or coins. The coins are an interesting tradition. Leaving one on the headstone of a soldier sends a message to …
Beth and I have begun organizing our little home in Youngsville, NY so that the summer boarders can take over our place and we can begin our yearly travel adventure. This year, we are spending July at an RV park 45 minutes east of here. Then it’s on to LBI for the first two weeks …
I have a sweet tooth. I am one of those guys who almost never has just one cookie…unless it’s a black and white from the local diner which, let’s face it, is really a small cake. (Our friend, Barbara, recently got me interested in black and white cookies. According to her, some are chalky and …
It’s a truly beautiful Spring day in the northeastern USA. After a brutal winter when the temperature regularly dipped into single digits, when we couldn’t see green for months – the sky is blue, the robins and bunnies are every where as are the folks walking through town clad in shorts and sandals. Hooray! It …