Lettuce entertain you? Not so much.
November 12, 2007
There are numerous questions that have confounded and held the imagination of mankind for centuries? Is there really a God? What is chaos and what is order? What are the true origins of the universe? What is man’s purpose? I have one to add to the list: What’s the deal ...
I like you, just please don’t ask me to be your Facebook friend
November 7, 2007
It’s been decades, scores even, since someone asked me, “Will you be my friend?” But now it’s happening weekly, and I don’t like it. Some of my friends and business associates have been sending me invitations to join their Facebook, the “online social network.” At first I was flattered, and ...
The Battle of the Thermostat
October 19, 2007
When I was a boy, I thought our thermostat was a religious icon. It was located on the white stucco dining room wall just inches from a painting of the Last Supper. Never touch the thermostat, my dad warned my brother, sister and me as he pointed to the golden ...
But, Your Honor... I forgot!
September 15, 2007
I’m becoming more forgetful these days. I’ve lost my keys a couple times recently, often can’t locate my cell phone and last month a cashier chased after me when I left a store without taking the pants I had just purchased. But never before have I experienced the panic that ...
'Hey, Mom, cook that junk we really like.'
August 31, 2007
In memorial: Nelle Brown Lewis, 1915 - 2007 Not that you’ve missed me but I’ve been absent from this site since early June. My mother died recently and I’m now back in the saddle ready to ride (and write) again. Boomer tribute columns to their parents are commonplace these days ...
Thank goodness I got diabetes
August 6, 2007
It’s been six months since I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. It was the best thing that could of ever happened to me. Having Type 2 diabetes increases my risk for many complications, including heart disease, blindness and nerve and kidney damage, according to the American Diabetes Association. It ...
The new Old Blue Eyes
July 16, 2007
After years of searching, I will now declare our generation’s Frank Sinatra. This crooner is Sting, who, like, Sinatra, is a man’s man. Plus, he’s a rock star, cares for the environment and the oppressed, and loves his wife. If he could play some ball and deal a hand of ...
Developing a teen driver
June 9, 2007
The last time I took my car in for service the technician said I would soon need new tires. I’ve got another six months or so before the rubber will be bald, he said. I just may wait until the tires look like my forehead before buying those tires. That’s ...
Pages of wedding album hold bittersweet memories
May 15, 2007
Julie and I have a bookshelf that takes up most of one wall in our front room. On that bookshelf are stories of our life together so far. It’s also where we keep our wedding album. Late one evening recently, Julie and I were reading in the front room. After ...
“I read the news today, oh boy.”
May 4, 2007
My dad was a kind, soft-spoken man and a successful business person. He came from means but chose to work his own way up through school as well as the corporate ladder. He understood and appreciated personal responsibility, character and depth. He died in the early 1960s and I have ...
So, where can I find a Husband of the Year nomination?
April 18, 2007
Well, Boomer Girls, I have canned the idea of scrapbooking the stages of my wife Julie’s menopause (see my April 4 blog). I prefer to take on projects with a better than 50-percent chance of completion. So, I’ve decided to just be a martyr. Men may not love to ...
No more Ms. Nice Girl
April 17, 2007
I apologize in advance for writing a second time about “nappy headed ho’s.” But, I’m not done with it, and who can blame me, no less authority than the president of the NCAA has called the event a cultural tipping point. I hope not. But I’m writing for BoomerGirl, and ...
'Nappy headed ho’s'
April 13, 2007
Jason Whitlock, a sports columnist who writes for the Kansas City Star, commented that Don Imus is not the villain; the villain is “us.” He writes that it is black people themselves who have embraced a culture that degrades and stereotypes. All Imus did, Whitlock says, was use language, ...
Mommy's First Hot Flash
April 4, 2007
My wife, Julie, says she’s “thisclose” to being full-blown menopausal. She can’t sleep. She gets night sweats. When it’s time to pick up the kids at school she’s ready for a nap. I wake in the middle of the night to find her watching HGTV or black and white movies ...
Units of production
March 28, 2007
Karl Marx claimed capitalism relentlessly reduces human relationships to questions of pure economics. The relationships of physician/patient, of lawyer/client, even those of parent and child, and of husband and wife, are valued, and those values are calculated by use of objectively measurable numbers. Marx himself, of course, bought off on ...
American Idle
March 12, 2007
Let it be said I do like movies. There’s nothing better than a well-written story, creative photography, gripping music and interesting characters. Hollywood at its absolute best. But a precious few minutes watching the recent Academy Awards brought me front and center once again with Hollywood at its worst. The ...