Category Archives: Essays

That’s Just the Breaks!

That’s Just the Breaks Winter is over, or so it seems. The grass is getting green and the daffodils are blooming.  Last winter was a notable winter for me – maybe an “infamous” winter would be a better name for it. As you may or may not know, I walk a lot. I tend to be a porker… Read More »

5 reasons many seniors are afraid of the internet (and what you can do to help)

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On Spring and Crocuses

On Spring and Crocuses I don’t have much of a life, I guess. I’ve been waiting all winter to see some form of life spring forth from the cold, almost-still-frozen earth. Normally, the first things to spring forth are the crocuses, and most years these hearty little flowers start poking their heads up through the hard, brittle soil… Read More »

The Exploitation of Senior Citizens

  The Exploitation of Senior Citizens We’ve been doing computer repair work since 2011. In the past eight years, we have worked on thousands of computers and we’ve seen just about everything. All too frequently we’ve seen computer repair services taking advantage of senior citizens. Far too often we have learned of people paying hundreds of dollars for… Read More »

It’s Time to Set Your Clocks Ahead Again

It’s Time to Set Your Clocks Ahead Again Well. here it is again. The weekend of the time change. Just last year I learned that calling daylight saving time, “Daylight Savings Time”, with an S, is horribly stupid and incorrect. They say it makes me look like an idiot to everyone who knows better; it’s correctly called daylight… Read More »