I guess it’s just another one of those things that happen once you hit fifty.
I was clearing the junk out of my email spam folder when it hit me:  I’m getting an extraordinary number of messages from folks who want me to buy wrinkle cream from them.
It’s to be expected, I suppose, but I can’t […]

Yeah, I hear you — there she goes, stating the obvious again — but I just can’t help myself. Sometimes the things people do just confuse and amaze me.
Case in point: Why is it that kids, when walking up the middle of the road in a group, will without fail split up and […]

Like a lot of other people, I have a bunch of old electronics equipment I’m not using any more.  But what I can’t figure out is how that stuff managed to reproduce itself like a nest of rabbits.
How do four old cables stuck in a drawer morph into twenty-three cables of a type I can’t […]

I think I can safely say it: I’m seriously disturbed.
There is some small defect hidden deep inside my brain that prohibits me from turning the channel any time I happen across one of the three Godfather movies. I simply must watch it all the way through.
It doesn’t matter that the movies are […]

Sometimes retailers’ sense of timing confuses the dickens out of me.
Case in point: Our little portable electric heater gave out over the weekend, probably from overuse since we ran out of fuel oil back in January. So we decided to go get a new one because evenings here are still pretty cold.
What did […]

If you could ask God any single question, what would it be?
We have this discussion every now and then.  BJ was watching a TV show recently where some woman said she would ask God if OJ really did it.  Since I already think I know the answer to that one, I wouldn’t waste my chance […]

One of the things that amazes and amuses me is the staying power of certain items that show up in TV commercials around this time every year.
I’m talking about The Clapper and The Chia Pet.  Are you kidding me?  Who really thinks either of these items would “make a great gift”?   I mean, it’s […]

I’ll never understand why some people think they have to be mean to be on television.
I simply cannot stand to watch “What Not To Wear” on TLC.  It’s not that I don’t care about fashion, even though I don’t.  I figure you can wear maternity clothes as long as you’re comfortable in them! If jeans […]

Have you noticed how much more comfortable looking women’s golfing outfits are now than they used to be?
Maybe it’s because Tiger Woods refused to wear knickers on the men’s tour, or perhaps the LPGA itself figured out that those little skirts were just silly, but when I see golfers like Solheim Cup Captain Betsy King […]

There’s a commercial on TV right now that just flat out confuses and annoys me.
It’s for an air freshener, and it’s strange.  The mother of the family comes home from shopping, wearing her too-tight pumps, and she’s concerned about the stale gym sock odor her kids have generated.  Okay, I can live with that, but […]