I’m sitting in my apartment at 3:30 on a Monday afternoon, March 23, 2020. My fellow Dallisites and myself have been coming to terms with a “shelter in place” frame of mind for over a week. The actual quarantine goes into effect tonight at midnight. Folks have barely begun to consider the effects and implications…

My Jeep Wrangler has 350,000 miles on it. You read that right. I passed a quarter of a million miles on that baby 100,000 miles ago. It has a “personality” at this point. It jumps out of first gear sometimes. Upon occasion, if I pass over a bump when driving on the freeway it will…

First off, I’d like to say, “Get off my lawn!”

“Kids these days!”

“The crap these kids listen to! It’s not music. It’s just noise.”

Now that I’ve spouted off and sounded like a cliche’, let’s talk about this. It happens generation after generation. Why do we do it? Why does the older generation…

When is it that we decide what we are attracted to? Early on most of us realize that we get that strange, nervous excitement around boys or girls. That inner magnet gets really activated around puberty. As time goes on, we develop more specific preferences. What about a preference for blonds? Brunettes? Bold, shy…

In the spirit of Halloween, let’s focus on nightmares, scary movies, and those of us who are drawn to that darkness. Some of us are just born that way, with “horror in the blood”.

A couple of years ago I decided to get my act together and pursue a healthier lifestyle. I should mention here that I am a plus size person and although I have fluctuated, being fat has typically been a fact in my life. Even so, I’ve always been very active…