Tag: 66
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1950 Census. Too spoiled to wait?
Depending on your age, you may have never looked at an old census. Maybe that should be rephrased to say you have never wanted to or needed to look at an old census. I didn’t. It was more a novelty than a necessity. However, If you are a regular on Ancestry.com, Family Search, or any…
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Acceptance or enlightenment.
I am moving closer to enlightenment. This isn’t a religious epiphany, and it isn’t political. It’s acceptance. I have often thought I knew, or understood most topics enough to have a reasonably intelligent conversation. Not the minutiae of a nuclear reaction or crypto-currency, but the humanities and sports were topics I could navigate. If talk…
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Another year to ponder.
2021. It offered such promise. Even if we all knew it could never live-up to our expectations, it had to be better than 2020, right? Right. In many ways it was worse and that too may be attributed to unreasonable expectations. To me at least, much of what we faced seemed to be payback of…
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Thanksgiving 2021—Turkey, rolls and Covid oh my! …and remembering Sid.
Thanksgiving 2021. Like most people (I hope), we were able to have a pretty normal Thanksgiving. Our regular group assembled around an impressive (and delicious selection I must say) rack of lamb, glazed ham and turkey. Each prepared with a personally created marinade and or glaze and cooked to perfection. Side-dishes, including legendary orange rolls,…
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A thought about Utah DCFS* & to booster-or not.
A series of texts had informed us that a particular home we were associated with had been left abandoned. The text’s continued saying that neighbors had started complaining about a disgusting smell that was emanating from said house. I made a call to the police, communicating this information and asking for assistance. Meeting them at…
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I’m vaccinated and just tested negative. Why aren’t I happy about it?
At this point in 2020, I had started backing off—a little—my incessant nitrile glove usage and started relying more on a mask, especially indoors, since the CDC said that was the more likely way to spread the virus. I continued to sanitize, of course, just in case. The rhetoric over a “vaccine” and when we…
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Real importance, for me at least
I am, generally speaking, a pretty cheerful and upbeat kinda guy. Over the course of my 66-years; while there have been plenty of nasty things occur, those incidents were far enough apart to allow a measure of healing before the next trauma appeared. The first one I recall was when JFK was assassinated. I was…
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Ramblings…
In the beginning, when I decided to create this blog, my “agenda” was to chronicle turning 65. In my mind, I was still relevant, at least in the work-force I thought, and felt undervalued in my current circumstance. A blog would allow for a place to rant & rave about such things if only to…
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Mental
For most of my life, I’ve given little consideration to the various iterations of “mental” when it is referencing the human condition. The terms I grew up hearing when referring to the word “mental” were generally movie references such as “crazy-house”, “nut-house” or “loony-bin.” In politically correct times they became institution, ward or hospital. It…
a life always under construction 