Why Life is Great!

Dear Kids Tough day to write about why Life is Great when another massacre occurred near home. A dozen people killed in Southern California, many were college students at a club. It’s times like these that all I can think about is that my Life is Great because you’re both safe. My heart breaks for […]

Morning Kiddies So, Gary has been in cat heaven for about 2 years and all family members, including mom, are pressuring the old man to adopt a new cat. You know that I’m very susceptible to peer pressure and fashion trends. Anyway, having a cat made Life Great for you guys and if you’re distracted […]

Dear Kids Life is great because we can all vote. In this great democracy of ours, we get to select our leaders/representatives and it always turns out great. We never get it wrong, the people we elect never let us down, they never do anything self-serving, and it’s all rainbows and puppies across America. However, […]

Dear Daughter Since your wonderful visit this weekend and our discussion about Totoro while I was dropping you off, I’ve kept thinking about our Neighbor Totoro? What animals could he have evolved from? I know he’s a spirit, but I can’t help but think that he had to evolve from something? He looks like a […]

Dear Daughter Yes, we are on a temporary vegan theme. So, I’m not naming names or pointing fingers, but there seems to have a great migration of duffel bags from Redwood City to Berkeley? Anyway, I think duffel bags make Life Great and I think so do you! They are so convenient, easy to stuff […]

Dear Kids I got a suggestion that we transition from Cannibals to Cannabis for this post and it made perfect sense to me. Cannabis can really, really, really make life seem great, even if it isn’t!  It’s a natural plant product, which I’m told is important to vegans, and you can even make cool hemp […]

Dear Son and Daughter (& Lauren) I think Life is Great for the planet because your old man does not rule the world! Crazy people should not be in charge of other people. Anyway, since sending you off to that bastion of liberal thinking for an education, you both returned to me vegans. Where did […]

So Halloween was yesterday and you know I think that it makes Life Great and I feel a little guilty about it. I must confess that I have not been into it! I have not carved a pumpkin in years. However, after driving around and seeing how much effort some of my neighbors put into […]

Kiddies First, I apologize for the excessive use of “whom’ vs. “who.”  This is obviously a crime against good grammar,  but I whom am I to know better anyway? So I’m still thinking about Bourdain. I’m an old guy and seeing another old guy that seemed to be doing exactly what he loved in life […]

Yesterday I wrote about the loss of Anthony Bourdain and a few days ago I wrote about being kind – now I’m writing about both again. Bourdain He was a well liked celebrity, which is different then a popular celebrity. I think the reason Bourdain resonated with so many people was his authenticity. Those who […]

Weird week with two celebrity suicides. People whom were accomplished but sadly depression does not seem to discriminate against rich or poor. I did not know whom Kate Spade was, but I definitely knew of Anthony Bourdain and really enjoyed watching his adventures. To me his show was really a celebration of this planet’s diverse […]

Kiddies I’ve always had a soft spot for birds and I think hummingbirds are just the coolest things in the world!  They are of course so tiny and then the way they fly and hover is just incredible. Yesterday I posted something on Facebook  about how I recently sold a house with a low hanging […]

Dear Kiddos You guys have no idea how convenient TV viewing is for you guys? Actually, just viewing altogether, I know that you youngsters supposedly now watch more entertainment on computers, pads, and phones than on TV. Before all this easy recording or on demand entertainment we had to race home to catch a show […]

Dear Kids appreciate airplanes. So this long weekend, mom and dad took one of our two favorite children to the University of Michigan. You kids may recall that we live in California, so we jumped on an airplane to go to Ann Arbor and of course flew back home. To this day I still find […]

I was recently at a store and as I walk past their wine aisle I was a bit surprised by some of the labels. Now I’ve seen a few quirky ones before and I don’t often buy wine, but I was really bowled over by some of their names. What amazed me was how outside […]