Service and Contemplation

For many today is a day of service and contemplation. If that is not how you will spend your day, please don’t celebrate sedition and insurrection.

No Batteries Required

Early in the pandemic—after growing a beard—I bought a new beard trimmer. My old one no longer worked because I think it was about 20 years old. The new trimmer started

It's Riveting

My jeans have decorative rivets on the pockets. Are these really structural and required? And why do they have protrusions to scratch your cell phone? But the better question is why haven’t

Dishwalla

While the word dishwalla has nothing to do with this post, I liked the sound of it as a title better than the things I don’t like about dishwashers. By the way,

Frog Knuckles

I had a dream where someone was making a recipe and the main ingredient was frog knuckles. That doesn’t sound very appetizing and I don’t even know if such a part