Yesterday I celebrated 66 years of being alive. Strange it doesn’t seem that long, but there is that thing called time, and as Einstein pointed out, it’s relative. I was overwhelmed with birthday wishes on my Facebook page. It was… Continue reading

 I thought that a blog was usually centered on a specific topic or interest. I looked up the definition to discover that isn’t necessarily so. A blog is just a website or web page run by one or more people… Continue reading

 You often hear someone say there is a groundswell of support for this or that. It has become an expression to describe a slow building of a very powerful force. Having been in the Navy and experienced many groundswells I… Continue reading

 I saw a little piece on the news this morning. It was a human interest story about a woman that had beaten breast cancer. The story told of her struggle through thirty treatments. Now, she is cancer free. The story… Continue reading

 For a time yesterday I thought I had been placed in Facebook jail. I was unable to create a post on my timeline. That remained true for five or six hours. Then, just like that, the what’s on your mind… Continue reading

 Qui tacet consentire videtur. That is a Latin phrase meaning ” he who is silent is taken to agree. ” It is used mostly in International Politics and referred to as a tacit agreement. In the contract world it doesn’t… Continue reading

 It’s one of those things. It happens to all of us after a certain age. Einstein had a formula for it. It’s called relativity. Of course he was concerned with time, but I’m talking about relatives. I was talking with… Continue reading

 Immature: not fully developed. That is one definition of the word, although we tend to think of someone thinking or acting like someone younger when we hear that term. Yes, they are the same, not fully developed, immature. I thought… Continue reading

 I’ve seen the commercials about buying insurance for your home and auto repairs. The pitch being something is going to break and you will need someone to fix it. Yes, that’s true, something will break . I honestly can’t say… Continue reading

 I was watching the Waltons when it occurred to me. We often hear the world could use more front porches, but I think what we really need are more parlors. Parlors were the formal reception area for our guests. It… Continue reading