Just when you think you have it all figured out… — Life is so strange! Just when you think you have it all figured out, something can either lift you up or knock you down. Or as boxer Mike Tyson once famously said, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” Life is exactly like that. The only…

Lisa Marie Presley, Jeff Beck, and now David Crosby are the latest unlucky triumvirate — Three rock and roll luminaries have died in the last 3 weeks, continuing a mystifying trend and adding to the folklore of celebrities always dying in threes. Why is this fact so indelibly imprinted on people’s minds? Because there has been ample evidence of this weird phenomenon over the years. …

It All Comes Out In The Wash — If you are not one of the lucky ones who have a house with a washer/dryer in the basement or kitchen, your only alternative is to visit your local laundromat once a week to clean your clothes. Yes, we all have dirty clothes but nobody ever wants to talk about…

What’s Up With Old People And Their Phones? If you were born before the 1980s this story may make more sense to you now. Computers became commonplace in the 1980s and almost every child born in the 1980s grew up with the computer as a commonplace item. And in the…

Trump in catfight with DeSantis over who had worst pandemic response while DeSantis promotes divisiveness and repression — In a bizarre twist of events, ex-president Donald Trump is accusing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R-Fla) of rewriting history in his response to the threat during the Covid-19 pandemic because he closed down Florida while many other Republican governors did not close their states.

Led Zeppelin’s rhetorical question today seems more important than ever in today’s uptight, upright society — Robert Plant, the lead singer for Led Zeppelin, had a good point about laughter. It seems to be in short supply in the landscape of today’s America. Laughter seems to have been replaced by ultra-serious, sober-sided partisans on both sides of the political and personal spectrum. Whatever happened to just…

Chinese government claims it’s simply a weather balloon blown off course-yeah right! — OMG! A giant Chinese weather balloon has been detected stealthily cruising over Montana at a giddy height of 60,000 feet! The balloon is as big as 3 school buses. By sheer luck, it was noticed by alert government officials. The balloon is apparently invisible to the naked eye. Even now…

You don’t have to believe in the dogma of organized religion unless you want to — Many people are confused as to the nature of spirituality. Are you one of them? A lot of people think that spiritualism is in opposition to organized religions. It is not. They have been co-existing for centuries and will continue to do so. Spirituality is simply the exploration of universal…

We need to get past the aftereffects of Covid-19 and reconnect — Remember the good old days? I’m talking about before Covid-19 took a wrecking ball to society and devastated our daily lives. When friends routinely dropped by, sometimes unannounced but were still welcome to come inside our homes. When it was ok to go inside a store without a mask on…