2021

As a stand-alone condiment, I guess mustard would be my third. It is, by far, the best condiment for us. It is much lower in sugar and fat than its counterparts, ketchup, and mayonnaise. I like mustard, and I eat mustard, but I always feel like it needs some help. Take the classic corn dog. […]

All the people we didn’t know. For some reason, this one struck a chord with me. Today is the birthday of Mickey Wright. I’d never heard her name and didn’t recognize her face. But, as I learned, she was probably the greatest female golfer of all time. Mickey Wright, her true name, Mary Kathryn Wright,

Thomas Edison, that patent-sprinter of an inventor, once said, “If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” Boy. Isn’t that the truth? I guess this could go in a million different ways, depending on the person and what they are capable of. You see, we are

We may not have pennies very much longer. Every so often, talk rises about doing away with the penny. Truly? I shudder to think about it. So many things cost in the amount ending in 99 cents. Land’O’Lakes butter is 2.99. Salmon is 6.99 a pound. A two-liter of Coke is 1.99. Without the penny,

We, humans, are always trying to gauge the world around us, it seems. It is only natural to assess our environment in all the ways we do. If we know our surroundings, we increase our chances of survival. So we gauge. We judge. We measure. One area we like to study is the intelligence of

When you invite Christopher Walken onto your boat for a little trip around the bay, weird things are bound to happen. Oh, maybe Chris is a normal kind of guy, I don’t know. But he was there, on Robert Wagner’s boat, the night Natalie Wood was drowned. I loved her in West Side Story, one

I’ve never met a yodeler in person. At least, I don’t know of any. Perhaps I have friends who are excellent yodelers, and they simply don’t yodel around me. I’ve been to countries where yodeling is a thing. I mean, when we think of the yodel, we think of the Swiss Alps and some blonde-headed,

This world is extremely complicated if you ask little old me. But I am small potatoes when it comes to waxing philosophical. Confucius once said, “Life is simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” I guess Confucius and I will just have to agree to disagree on this one. He didn’t have the internet,