Category Archives: Essays

My Thoughts on February

  My Thoughts on February January is finally over. It’s been a struggle for an old man like me. I still walk four miles every day, or every day I can. The weather this January has been brutal – there was a week when the high temperature didn’t breath the 20-degree (F) mark. And let’s talk about snow… Read More »

Exploiting Senior Citizens

  Exploiting Senior Citizens We’ve been doing computer repair work since 2011. In the past 13 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 unnecessary computer… Read More »

Year 28

  Year 28 It’s hard to believe that Darcy and I have been doing this for 27 years and we’re beginning our 28th year. We have gone from rags to riches and back again. We’ve done some soul-searching and we almost gave it all up once. But we found ways to keep things going and over time settled… Read More »

An Ancient Soul Restless and Yearning

  An Ancient Soul Restless and Yearning I’m old and certainly not very cool. I don’t know that I ever was. I don’t belong here in the age of selfies, but I’m not so sure I belonged in the age of transistor radios either. I don’t understand selfie sticks selfie lights or selfie filters. I don’t understand the… Read More »

Finding Christmas Magic

  Finding Christmas Magic It’s the day before Christmas Eve. The Christmas lights glowing in the rain do not look like Christmas lights to me. They look old and hazy and out-of-place and oddly out of time. I feel as though I have suddenly been thrust into the middle of March and people have forgotten to take down… Read More »