• How to succeed in the stock market… whatever I buy… don’t. Bought B/A at $29 per share. Sold at $19. Bought at $17, sold at $13. Bought at $9 (how can that be a bad deal?), sold at $6.… Continue Reading
• I’ve flunked every one of those magazine tests measuring my compatibility and communication skills and all that other touchy-feely junk. (Insensitive? Me?) Those tests send me into a tailspin. The ones about alcohol consumption make me thirsty. Cherry makes… Continue Reading
• Tendency. Before anyone has finished criticizing me, I’m already thinking of a way to say it’s not my fault. I really hate that about myself… I blame my mother. • I’m just smart enough to know what I’m not… Continue Reading
• I have a friend with a nervous laugh… he makes me nervous. • There’s a neighborhood cat I call Dog because he follows me to the river, fetches a toy mouse I bought him and jumps on my back… Continue Reading
• I sometimes get chided for mixing words or metaphors. I don’t get it. I’m running as fast as I can. • Names, faces, dates . . . not a clue, but I CAN recognize a great laugh, in the… Continue Reading
• My secretary is good. I wave my arms, talk incoherently, point and sputter and she completes my thought and hands me the correct file. • I like wine, but when my feet are held to the fire, I have… Continue Reading
I grew up in Arcata. Several small, dark bars surrounded the town plaza. They were usually populated with lumber workers, mill owners, college students trying very hard to look “old” and the occasional professor counseling a pretty graduate student. I… Continue Reading
There should be a bounty placed on every person who jumps out of bed alert and cheerful, and a double award for those really, really smiley types. I applied some non-toxic, non-harmful to flora/fauna Liquid Fence to my grapevines. It… Continue Reading
While having lunch with three friends, we invented a new (to us) game… “Conversation Starters That Stop Conversations.” We listed 50 or so but the one that stuck with me was, “I’m only telling you this as a friend…” No!… Continue Reading
Really smart people should have stadiums built around their brains so we could pay to watch their thought processes. For Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, I would be happy with bleacher seats, but for Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, I… Continue Reading
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