“Life is long. Youth is short.” Or so says a favourite character in Contentment is for Cows. Ahh, the joys of youth. All that energy,…
My first paid work was in a busy restaurant in the centre of a busy tourist destination point. Restaurant? No, it was really a hamburger…
I’ve been a lifelong weakling. I swear I never had any natural strength. When I played sports I had to rely on strategy and quickness…
By the time you are reading this, I will have turned Sixty-Effin-Seven. I don’t like the sound of that number, hence the middle two syllables….
There is a saying about life being short, and it may be true. I prefer to say life is long — youth is short. In…
“Forgot, forgot forgot! That’s all I ever hear from you!” went my Mother’s shrill lament… I rely on this memory as evidence that I have…
I ended last week’s post with “And sometimes, it takes a lifetime to create a masterpiece”. And there’s the rub, just as you are morphing…
Buck Martinez, the play-by-play commentator for the Blue Jays (yes, I watch baseball) is 69 years old. And he looks good, doesn’t he? A friend…
Being biased against persons who are ‘old’ makes no sense. Everyone will eventually be a part of the elderly demographic or they will no longer…
Happy Half-Year! We have reached the mid-year point of 2018. For those of us who make New Years Resolutions on January 1, those commitments made…