General Interest
The “Thirty, Thirty” Method for Buying Garden Mulch
Want a great way to send the guy next door right over the top? I mean so bad that he completely loses it like Sean Spicer at a White House press briefing? You’re going to love this; it is so bad. Here’s what you do… Arrange to have a load of garden mulch dropped off at the end of your driveway on a Saturday morning. Then, stand near your phone… Rin...Read More
A “Rain-A-Geddon” Weekend
Today’s Living Retired is presented by the Umbrella Manufacturers Association whose slogan is: ‘We keep making umbrellas because you idiots keep losing them!’ This past weekend residents in the Midwest and eastern North America suffered through three days of torrential rainstorms! How bad was it? Well I know you’re going to...Read More
Want to Increase Your Longevity? Here’s 7 Simple Strategies
Today life expectancy in the Western World is greater than it has ever been. It has not been by accident, and there are numerous reasons this has taken place. Some of these are obvious, some not so much. There are, of course, no guarantees. We can find individuals who have abused their bodies and yet live to a ripe old age. Others who do all the “r...Read More
Journey with Kileen: The Oregon Coast’s Spectaclar Lighthouses!
Last summer I did a tour of the Pacific coast from California to Tillamook, Oregon. We stopped at two lighthouses but if you are traveling by auto it would be fun to see all nine of the surviving lighthouse stations since they have been added to the National Register of Historic Places. Seven of the lighthouses are available to visit during the su...Read More
2017. It sounds more like a movie than a year.
There are movies called 1941 (hysteria in California after the bombing of Pearl Harbor), 1984 (Big Brother), and the infamous 2001 (a space odyssey). What can we expect when 2017 screens? New movies will follow, including The War with Grandpa and Downsizing. If they don’t appeal to you try The Six Billion Dollar Man – a high-cost revival of the Six...Read More
The Canadian Rockies: 4 Parks; 2 Countries; Train, Boat, Gondola, and MORE… Oh My!
The Canadian Rockies are among the planet’s most majestic mountains and deserve a prominent place on your travel bucket list. If you have always wanted to see them but are unsure of when to go, what to see, how to get around or where to stay, Ginny and I recommend taking a well-run tour with a professional guide. One of the best is the aptly-named ...Read More
Bowie: Life Well Lived – Death Well Planned
This has been a tough time for baby boomers and rock ‘n’ roll fans, punctuated by the deaths of David Bowie, Eagles’ co-founder Glenn Frey, Dan Haggerty of Grizzly Adams fame, Mott the Hoople’s drummer Dale Griffin, and singer Celine Dion’s husband and brother. Dr. Mark Taubert, a palliative care physician in Cardiff, United...Read More
A Review: Go Set A Watchman, by Harper Lee (NY: Harper Collins), 2015
It’s done. I finished the book and neither my worst fears nor my greatest hopes were realized. This unearthed early work by Nelle Harper Lee, the book that predates her masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird, is not the worst book I’ve ever read nor is it by any means the best. But never have I read a book with such trepidation about how its very ex...Read More
There To Understand
“We have too many high sounding words and too few actions to correspond with them”—Abigail Adams The English language has many words that sound the same but are spelled in different ways and with a switch of a few letters give it an entirely different meaning. Just this afternoon sitting at my computer typing this post I am conc...Read More
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