“One and done” might be our hope in our personal and professional lives, but it rarely proves to be so. In my 64 years, I’ve learned that almost everything is like the pencils we got in first grade: you use it, then you sharpen it. Repeat! Another highlight of first grade was kissing Dale Benerofe …

My stepfather turned 89 last week and my mother will reach that same milestone in November. To me, people living that long is truly amazing. When I was a ten year old boy, I thought 89 was friggin’ ancient. For Pete’s sake, that was people who were born in the 1880’s and said “for Pete’s …

In between chapters of whatever book I’m reading on Kindle, I like to peruse Reddit. My feed is full of cars, guitars, birds and lots of user-created questions like this one… “Which rock bands should just retire”? As you might imagine, the answers people post are focused on the bands that peaked in the 1970s …

Today, I ordered our Starlink kit, the go-to WiFi router and satellite dish for nomadic adventuresrs. I started seeing these kits last season. I’m looking forward to not depending on our cell service or the sometimes spotty internet connections at campsites. When we traveled across the country a few years ago, the technology was all …

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 …

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 …