Category: Entertainment
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A Blast From the Past
Reading Time: < 1 minute Randy and I are heading back to Camdenton in a few weeks. While there we’re going to attend a Doobie Brothers concert, featuring Michael McDonald. We can’t wait to experience a blast from the past seeing one of our favorite bands from our formative early adult years. When Randy and… Read more
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Eating…a Spectator Sport!*#??
Reading Time: 5 minutes Randy and I have a favorite restaurant in Port Charlotte. Called Buffet City, it’s a buffet (of course) that is primarily oriental, with an incredible sushi bar (about 40 feet in length), a hibachi grill, and 7 huge buffet tables. Their advertising claims they have over 300 menu items. I believe… Read more
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Sound of Freedom
Reading Time: 2 minutes In our world, there’s been a lot of hype recently about a movie that was released on Independence Day this week. Because of our religious and political views, we were bombarded on the internet by the pre-release hype for this movie. We were offered free tickets by a Pay-It-Forward plan dreamed… Read more
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What a Circus!
Reading Time: 5 minutes I don’t know what it is about retirement. Maybe my mind is not cluttered anymore with all the things I need to think about and retain now that I’m not committed to a paying job for most of my waking hours. Or maybe it’s just that, like the old joke about… Read more
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The Circus
Reading Time: 2 minutes We live less than 35 miles from what became, in 1927, the winter home of the Ringling Circus in Sarasota. The city became known as Circus City and is home to a lot of circus history, museums and culture that are often lost in the much more well known beach culture… Read more
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A Sunny Place for Shady People
Reading Time: < 1 minute I drove past a quaint little adult beverage establishment in Englewood a few months ago. The bar, called Will’s Honkytonk, had a slogan on their sign that I loved and has stuck with me. It says “A shady place for sunny people.” Clever and delightful. We learned that Will’s is… Read more
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Rocket Woman
Reading Time: 4 minutes When Elton John and his lyricist partner Bernie Taupin wrote the song Rocket Man, Taupin was inspired by a 1951 collection of Ray Bradbury short sci-fi stories. The stories depicted the complex relationship between technology and psychology, and one story, in particular, was about an astronaut’s love of the stars. The… Read more
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Grandma and Grandpa On The Farm
Reading Time: 2 minutes My good friend, Mary, who lives in Missouri, recently lost her mother-in-law, who was a doll collector. Mary doesn’t have much interest in dolls, but she’s always loved this pair. Here’s her note to me about this picture: “My heart has always been on the farm, I loved spending as much… Read more
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Bad Movies and Other Distractions
Reading Time: 4 minutes I like Hallmark movies. A lot. I like to have them playing on my tablet while I’m putting a puzzle together out on the lanai. Neither one of those activities take too much brain power so I can easily do both at once. It’s a great two-fer activity…exercising my mind and… Read more
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Wordle
Reading Time: < 1 minute I’m addicted to a relatively new, once-a-day, on-line game. Called Wordle, it’s named after its inventor, a Welsh software engineer named Josh Wardle (convenient, huh?). A player has 6 tries to guess a 5 letter word. Feedback is given to players in the form of color tiles. Green means the… Read more