Way back, say in the 1800s, there were “newspapers” – but in many cases, you did not receive the paper for days, perhaps weeks, or months. Imagine you’re out on the trail in a wagon …

Jerry Lewis passed away in 2017. He was 91. I read about an interview he gave the year before, when he was a “young” 90. He said, “I have so much left to do and so little time in which to do …

I am always amazed by nature. It is so all-powerful. I actually think (if nature can think!) that it has a certain disdain for humans. Mostly because nature has been around as long as our planet, …

Some things make me laugh that shouldn’t. Others make others laugh but are not funny (at least to me). The word Schadenfreude, adopted in English from German – where in German derives from: …

The other day, a friend happened to mention to me that they were having a hard time putting $200 together to buy something. This got me to thinking about whether putting $200 together was a unique …

For those of you who followed my Facebook page last year, each day you could see additional progress being made to the house we were building just down the street from our current home. What has …

I was rewatching the movie “A Social Network.” This is a great film about the founding of Facebook. As I watched, there were quite a few scenes about Mark Zuckerberg’s time as an …

OK, like many of you, we had the displeasure of involuntarily disconnecting from society due to the windstorm that hit us a few days ago. First, we lost power for almost a full day. Fortunately, …

I’ve often thought about our fixation on our professional sports teams. Locally, that includes the Seahawks, the Mariners and now the Kraken (oh yeah, there is a professional soccer team – the …

It’s World Series Time again. Each fall, when the Fall Classic approaches, I start to think of the “old days” of Major League Baseball. Now I’m old enough to remember the “old Yankee …

Now with that title, my first guess is that you’re wondering if everything is OK with me? Well, let me say that as far as I know, everything with me is fine. But if you’re paying attention, at …

I got to thinking about all the ways we are being “helped” by automation in our modern society – and how sometimes perhaps there might be “just a little too much” of it. An example: My …

OK, today I’m going to “channel” that great American comedy resource, Dave Barry. He is a national treasure. From time to time, he wrote a column (his “home” newspaper is the Miami Herald) …

OK, you would have to have been unconscious for the past week to not know that the Queen of the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II, passed away at the age of 96. This followed the passing of her …

We’re all concerned as to whether we are safe. Safe in our homes, safe going to the store, safe going out in public. Let me address this. There are almost 8 billion people in the world. A large …

I got to thinking about coincidences the other day. It was precipitated by a couple of seemingly random events. The first event was a medical diagnosis I had received from my family doctor. It was …

In case any of you wonder how I write this column each week, I will write a bit about the creative process. See this process applies to just about anything a human is attempting to do for the …

For this week’s column I thought I’d write about the “general” types of people one comes into contact with during a lifetime. I always think of the famous Barbra Streisand song “People.” …

Most of us take for granted what the trials and tribulations are when living here in the Pacific Northwest. I thought this week I’d compare some of these against living elsewhere. Specifically, …

I guess I’ve been interested in psychology ever since I took a basic course as an undergraduate. Over the years, I’ve both read and experienced firsthand, the science of psychology. The …