thanks to Drew One evening a grandson was talking to his grandfather about current events. The grandson asked his grandfather what he thought about the shootings at schools, the computer age, and just things in general. The Grandfather replied, “Well, let me think a minute, I was born before: ‘television ‘penicillin ‘polio shots ‘frozen foods […]

That’s a term you don’t hear much about now, but it is very important, because the recent failure of banks, were partly caused by derivatives.  What is a derivative?  Simply put, a derivative is a bet.  If you go to Las Vegas, and you bet on where the cards closest to 21 will be, that’s […]

I think it is a fraud, and any temporary change in weather, has been on-going for hundreds of years.  Colorado’s past winter has been very cold and snowy.  Record breaking, I’ll bet, since Silverton has had close to 300 inches of snow, and Steamboat Springs has had over 400 inches.  Here are a couple of […]

Parts of a column I wrote 6/17, 2003) Picture a hunter who is a poor shot.  Picture a wounded deer limping off into the woods to lick its wounds.  The hunter goofed, and isn’t going home with venison. The deer is mortally wounded, and is doing its best to survive.  It can’t, but continues licking […]

“Geezer: slang, usually an old man, sometimes a woman.” When I was growing up in D.C., there was no such thing as a “nursing home,” that I was aware of anyway.  My grandparents and my Dad, died without their existence being known to them.  That was in the 1950’s and early 60’s.  My Mom died […]