For those that have been asking, an update on my mother... After her third fall in three weeks being on her own, Linda and I made the decision that she needed 24 hour attention and so we have moved her in with us. She continues to slowly move towards her inevitable conclusion but unless she makes a remarkable recovery, we are talking about weeks. Our goal is to make her as comfortable as possible with the help of hospice. Thanks to all that have expressed their best wishes an

I don't know about you all, but we get thirty phone calls a day from various companies wanting us to listen to their pitch on changing our Medicare advantage coverage to whatever crap they are pushing. It is annoying and I feel like crawling through the phone and choking the liar on the other end. But that is not what this is about today. Well, it is about Medicare in a sense. It is also about Social Security, insurance costs, and the rest of our out of control world revolvin

Coming of age during, arguably, music's greatest era means that there are a lot of great albums and songs I've heard and enjoyed. I could list a hundred groups and singers that have moved me with their music in my life but that isn't what I want to write about today. Music, like all the arts, is completely subjective. What I like may not be what you like but that doesn't mean that what you like isn't important and good. It just means that you are wrong. I'm kidding. We all ha

If you are anyone other than a Dodger fan this picture makes you hurt from head to toe. Not since the Yankees of the 80's and 90's has a team generated more hatred by fans around the world than this Dodgers team. That is great for baseball. Sports needs heroes and villains, especially villains. We all love and are devoted to our favorite teams and players but when their season ends, and other teams are playing on, we need someone to cheer for and someone to root against. It i

This anniversary kind of snuck up on me. The only time I think of it is around this time each year mainly because the 25th is my sisters birthday so it triggers a memory. If you've read my first book, "The Smartest Generation" , (available exclusively on Amazon), then you know that I've managed to do more than my share of stupid things in my life. What happened fifty years ago this weekend takes the cake to be sure. It was stupid, funny, scary, and interesting all at the same

Regular readers of this blog are well aware of the fact that I hate the felon more than I have ever hated anyone on earth. There is nothing redeeming about this fool and as he gets older he is getting crazier and more dangerous and every single day I wake up and hope to read that he died. But, he is still here and he is still doing dangerous things. As a person that grew up in the 1960's, I saw, read, and lived stories about protests happening during that period. I protested

I'm sorry that it has been a few weeks since I spoke with you all but, as always lately, life keeps getting in the way. My soon to be 95 year old mother had a medical situation that led her to be taken to the emergency room where after taking around 34 gallons of blood, which took them 76 tries to find a vein, and another CAT scan they figured out that the small mass they found on her colon two weeks earlier had grown about 20%. Her options were to have surgery, where they ga

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I can already hear all five of you followers of this blog releasing a huge sigh and muttering under your breath "not again." Well, sorry...