Generally, I am a creature of habit. I wake up and go to sleep at about the same time every day. Occasionally, that rule will bend this way and that. What helps is that I am retired and am not required to be somewhere at a specific time every day. …

Picking Up the Pieces of a Normal Life — I’m on the mend. This means there are some days when everything appears normal and I’m back to my “normal” activities. Then, there are others, like this morning, when I feel I have fallen back into the land of sickness with a stopped-up nose and headache. However, I intend to…

The Best Job Ever — Many times, in the last place I worked, my boss, Ken, would bring his dog to the office. Having the dog with us became an added responsibility, but we loved it. Over the years, three different dogs were our office dogs. Two of them passed of old age while I…

My Plans for the Near Future It occurred to me that putting all your eggs in one basket is the proverbial warning we should pay more attention to. Does this mean having two husbands at the same time? No, not that. …

And A Channeling Funny — I’ve been a member of Medium for a year. It was last Thanksgiving that I signed up. My 100 followers began slowly, just a trickle of people. I wrote eight pieces that first month and another 30 the next month. Since then, writing has become easier. …

TBD — I began this November’s NaNoWriMo full of excitement, and my head was full of book to write. I had taken the time to rough out an outline of 2 pages which for me is a lot seeing as how scribbled notes are what I usually do, if that. …

Put Down That Fork — When you have a choice to make do you think quickly, or do you deliberate about the consequences of what you are about to do? I would say there are two ways to go about it. Think short term or think long term. Sometimes you would think it wouldn’t matter…

Give that Peeler the Boot — Once I was married, I moved away from my family. My mother and I didn’t have the same opportunities to talk as we had before. We were on different continents before computers and even cell phones had been invented; we were pretty much left to letter writing. Phone conversations were…

“Incoming Call” — Recently we got a new internet service provider. We used to have Comcast/Xfinity and to the tune of over $200 a month we got high-speed internet, telephone service, and television programs. As the years went by, we added more bells and whistles until it was just too expensive. One day…