Tag: Personal opinion
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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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I wondered what happened to him.
Glancing over my Facebook feed today, I noticed a post from my high school group, West High Class of 73. It said “We have lost a dear member of our class.” Included was the obituary for Elizabeth Connie Kelson. I didn’t recognize her. The fact we graduated 49 years ago could explain that but I…
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Hard to stay neutral some times.
With Covid numbers through the roof, Salt Lake County imposed a 30-day mask mandate. Like most, I shrugged my shoulders. Currently I wear a mask in crowds anyway; mandate not needed. However, it is a flashpoint for some so I expected a fight. The first day of the mandate my son Spencer and I went…
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Planning a little trip.
In November 2020, after graduating from real estate school, and being pretty much “done” with the pandemic, I started an AirBNB search for properties, in or around Key West. The general idea was to stay for a week or so during Valentine’s Day 2021. I would be retired from Career A, and not yet full-steam…
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Booster. Roger that.
After months of making a case for rejecting it, I could not continue to ignore the statistical evidence to get it. My initial concern for not getting the shot was because I didn’t want a repeat of my ER stay after receiving the 2019 seasonal flu shot. In March 2021, I got both shots with…
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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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Pearl Harbor & 9/11
So much has been said and written about this day. For twenty-years, on 9/11, we hear inspiring stories of sacrifice and courage. I imagine anyone of an age that remembers living through this event, has their own very personal reflections. For my small family, it was an anxious time filled with real uncertainty about the…
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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…
a life always under construction 