I no longer go on vacations, I go on adventures. Chapter 1: Where, Why, How “Where could I go where there is a potential to have an epic adventure!?” When I go on holiday for weeks, that is my main thought when choosing where I will travel. I do an ungodly amount of research before…

I no longer go on vacations, I go on adventures. Chapter 1: Where, Why, How “Where could I go where there is a potential to have an epic adventure!?” When I go on holiday for weeks, that is my main thought when choosing where I will travel. I do an ungodly amount of research before…

So you’re pushing your shopping cart down the frozen vegetable aisle at Kroger’s, and coming from the other direction is a young employee pulling a cart with stacks of boxes. What do you do, if anything? Options: Stare straight ahead at the brussels sprouts in the freezer case and ignore (or pretend to ignore) the…

Before getting to your departure gate, have you ever accidentally left any items at the TSA checkpoint? I have once. One Friday, while being distracted at the checkpoint before being patted down, I left a belt and a small red travel bag. I didn’t realize the items were left until the morning after I arrived…

Just a quick note to y’all conservatives who favor the Trump border wall and are generally—come on, admit it—you really just don’t like Mexicans: You know those so-called “illegal immigrants” who you claim are raping our women and stealing jobs from the rest of us? Ummm… now that y’all’s homes have been damaged by Harvey,…

So here we are in late August, and the holiday season is creeping up on us. Every year, the retailers start the creeping a couple of weeks earlier. Wanna take bets on when we’ll see the first Christmas displays in our local big-box retailers? Do you think they’ll even wait until after Halloween? After just…

OK, I’m 66 now and when I was a few decades younger, it used to drive me nuts to hear seniors constantly talking about Medicare, pensions, retirement, Social Security, and hip replacements. I was thinking, “Man, these folks need to get a life and find less boring things to talk about!” Well, now I’m the…

My friend, Don and I were talking about personalities and my friend used an analogy of colors to describe the people we know. Do you remember how when you were a kid, you probably had quite a few of the standard Crayola crayons that came in a box of eight colors? And how if you were…