We spend 90% of our time indoors!  It's a bad habit made worse by the screens that memorize us and also by the pandemic. Let's take a hike, let's sit on the porch, let's breath some fresh air.

Love goes well beyond sexual connection. To mark St. Valentines Day this year, we honor the kind of love that's hard work - carrying for people in the later stages of life and try to answer the question, "How do they keep going?"

Meet Frankie Corrado (my grandson). He's a junior at the University of Wyoming majoring in elementary education. He, like thousands of other college students survived a year  of Covid. How's he doing?

Being "creative" or "Making Art" are words that casually used today. Shouldn't we have a little more respect for this process and what comes from it?

Whatever happened to social dancing?  It was a great way for people to connect socially.  When you think about it, its the second best thing a man and woman can do together. 

Ah, Spring!  When a young city boy’s fancy turns to thoughts of…. Farming? But the girl's a farm escapee hiding in Chicago so  when Jake finds Lenore, aka Twinkle, sparks fly. The journey of discovery begins when he leaves the big city to grow blueberries in Michigan. Follow their journey to the land where nuts grow fruits. Kinda based on a true story, Blue Acres offers a humorous look at the making of a farmer. 

 Thirteen episodes  now available at https://blueacres.buzzsprout.com  or on Apple or your favorite podcast site

Are hobbies a thing of the past?  Today we call watching TV a diversion, a hobby. Is it really?
There are passive and active hobbies. We should probably be engaged in both, especially as we get older.  From quilting and gardening to sports and skills like woodworking we sure have lots of choices. Time to get off our butts and get going.

We can tell many of the stories of our lives through the cars we drive.  My experience with cars covers over 60 years and each car tells its own story

My bucket list leaks.  One goal goes in, another goes out.  Also, i've found that there are two kinds of lists - one is very specific like learn to play piano. Another is more general: spend more time with friends.