I’m a simple man, just trying to make my way in this life. I’m not looking for trouble and I’m all about letting people go their own way. If you want to make questionable life decisions – as long as they don’t impact me, I say go for it. You want to ride a motorcycle without a helmet? Be my guest. Want to own forty-five firearms? As long as you’re not shooting them off in town at 3:00 AM after…
June is fast approaching, and that means that thousands of local high school seniors (including my youngest daughter) will soon be completing their studies and walking the stage to receive their hard-earned diplomas. It’s been quite a journey for these young men and women, but has it been a memorable one – or one that they’d just as soon forget? It’s been a very unique time for the class of 2021 (and for that matter, the class of 2020 as…
If you’re a frequent reader of this blog, you’ll remember that last year I spent some of my COVID isolation planting a garden, utilizing a plot in my town’s local community garden. It was a great way to get some exercise, see if I would enjoy digging in the dirt, and also allowed me to undertake a hobby that provided some relevant feedback on success or failure. I have to say that although I’m not a newly converted and rabid…
While every sector of the economy took a hard hit due to the coronavirus, perhaps no industry took it on the chin harder in 2020 than the travel industry. Airlines, hotels, theme parks, restaurants, and cruise lines were all hanging on for dear life this past year – some didn’t make it. Hundreds of thousands of jobs were lost and entire geographic areas became ghost towns. Can you imagine trying to make it in a beach town or in such…
Well hello, 2021! It’s a new year and time for my annual attempt at a “restart” on some of my many annual resolutions. I say “restart”, because – as always – it’s the same list I start on every January 1st (and unfortunately – eventually fail at). I should really call these the new year’s endurance trials, because like any test of will, it’s usually a struggle to see how long many of these will last. Oh, I’m hell out…