Bridges To Yesterday Once there was a time when I could hear the sound of birds singing and feel the warmth of the sun washing over me – and the beauty of a blossoming spring touched my soul and raised my spirits and brought the light of happiness into my life. This morning for reasons unknown to me,… Read More »
A New Walking Place This summer, I have almost abandoned my former favorite place to walk. I have found a new walking place, and I have been walking there almost every single day this summer – even on days when the temperature was up there nibbling at 100 degrees (that’s about 38 degrees Celsius for those of you… Read More »
Melons On My Mind Those of you living in big and sophisticated cities will be astonished to learn that those of us living in more-or-less rural areas of America, get all worked-up about summer festivals. It may seem sad to you, even pathetic, but, alas, it is true. So far, this summer, in my neck-of-the-woods, we’ve had the… Read More »
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same We wrote our first “Your Computer Won’t Bite” e-book back in 2005. Windows XP was just a few years old and some folks were still hanging on to Windows 98 and Windows ME. A decade ago we told you that your computer won’t bite, and though things have changed… Read More »
Ketchup They say that ketchup is the poor man’s sauce, whoever they are. They say a lot of things. They say what’s good for the goose is good for the gander too, but how many of you walk around calling male geese ganders? Not many, but THEY do. But I don’t want to talk about geese, ganders or… Read More »
Summer Where I live, summers are not measured by the calendar so much as by holidays. Summer begins with Memorial Day and ends with Labor Day. The mid-point is marked by the Fourth of July. The calendar does not agree, of course. Summer, according to “calendarians” (is that a word?) begins on or about June 21 and ends… Read More »