Month: November 2025
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Thanksgiving Amusement
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe amused ourselves yesterday with Thanksgiving jokes. Better late than never. Enjoy! Why did the turkey join the band? Because he had the drumsticks. What did Pilgrims make bread out of? May flour. Why don’t turkeys eat on Thanksgiving? ‘Cause they’re already stuffed. Why did the turkey bring a microphone? Because he… Read more
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What’s Real? An AI Future
Reading Time: 5 minutesLynn sent me a Facebook Reel a few days ago. It’s linked here. She sent it to me via Messenger, commenting “Very Strange. Amazing imagination.” Indeed, it is. The visuals are stunning and interesting. The song is haunting and the mental pictures the words evoke are excellent, though the story of Betrayal… Read more
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Best Laugh All Week
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI was talking to Lynn on our weekly video chat yesterday. She was unpacking a box of things she ordered from Amazon. She pulled out a new bag of Ancient Sea Salt and I started to laugh. You gotta love the big food industry in America these days. Ancient sea salt… Read more
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House in Disarray…Again
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe moved to Florida in July 2021. It’s a long story, but we bought this house before we’d ever seen it in person. That’s just the way the real estate market was at that time. Randy told that story here in his blog. We counted ourselves lucky to even have “scored” a… Read more
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About That Excellent Nonsense
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast week my friend, Carla, told me about a book she was reading with the genius title of Slowing Down to the Speed of Joy. I mentioned I’d like to read it and she gifted me with one of the 5 copies she bought at an author’s event recently. The premise of… Read more
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Veterans Day
Reading Time: 5 minutesToday is Veterans Day, observed this year, as it is every year, on November 11. It’s in vogue in 2025 to thank veterans for their service to our country. It hasn’t always been that way. In my lifetime, the political and cultural mood has been much uglier than it is today. I… Read more
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It’s Puzzling….
Reading Time: 2 minutesOk, it’s a play on words. But it’s got a purpose. One of my intentions in starting this blog was to chronicle the journey of life after work retirement, muse about what I’ve learned along the way, reminisce to relive the joy of life up to this point, and learn to stay… Read more
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Too Peopley
Reading Time: 5 minutesHas anyone ever asked you whether you’re an introvert or an extrovert? It’s a fairly common question, especially during job interviews during our working years. As a former human resources development manager, I know the value of the answer to this question when hiring an employee. But Aristotle said, “knowing yourself is… Read more