When I started this blog site, I was four years and zero months away from age 66 and full social security bennies. I reasoned this target date would be the best time for me to retire. I started the countdown to amuse myself and hopefully others.
On 08/21/08 and with three years and three months left, I [...]
My area’s daily newspaper, the Daily Local News is having a running dialogue about Michael Vick. On one side are people who believe he hasn’t been punished enough for his dog fighting crimes. Opposing them are others who believe that indeed he has and who among us has the right to expect more.
First point: Vick [...]
My earliest memory of dogs was being knocked down by one and badly bitten. Even today, dogs sense my fear of them. I can’t seem to find the off button.
My family had one dog named Tippy, but I didn’t play with her much. I let my five siblings do it.
My wife & I had a cat, Oksana [...]
Can sales and politics be somehow similar? Stay with me as I explain.
As a salesman, I would meet with my bosses and their bosses at weekly sales meetings. My task was to get them up to speed on my customers since my last reckoning. At times, it was like root canal, but it always necessary. A salesman [...]
Jaycee Lee Dugard surfaced 18 years after her abduction by a pervert, Phillip Garrido. Her life during this time will soon be revealed in detail but what has surfaced has me in awe of the human spirit.
Kept in seclusi0n as a sex slave, she had two children by her kidnapper. She was shut off from the world in a portion [...]