My wife asked me a few months ago why I always leave the doors open after I am in the cupboards.
It was like a bird singing in the distance.
I am not sure what we’re waiting for, but we have a lot of things sitting around this house as if we’re waiting for buggy whips to come back i…
There are a lot of reasons why I am glad I don’t live in the warmer climates.
We’ve all seen “Home Alone” countless times, but one of my favorite scenes is not the cartoon-like antics when Kevin is single-handedly thwart…
We live in a world that seems to worship technology, but technology only seems to come up with inventions and then tries to see if there are a…
Time is a mystery to me.
Someday, when retirement arrives, I imagine that I will have all this time for projects, that I will while away my winter years puttering arou…
It’s quiet. Almost too quiet.
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I got to sing to my grandson today. And, curiously, he seemed to enjoy it.
So if the house was on fire and I had to grab one thing on my way out the door to save, what would it be?
I was exhausted and ready to flop into bed for the night, but first I had to build a towers of pillows.
When you reach a certain age, and I am not certain what that age is but it certainly arrives for everyone, you look back at your life and try …
Every time the Olympics come on, I say that I am not going to let myself get suckered into watching it every night and most of the day on weekends.
It is like the music is playing in my head.
As old as I get, I don’t think I will ever reach the point when my children don’t call for help and I get a sinking feeling inside of me.
Women live longer than men, because I think they make better decisions than men do.
I looked under the Christmas tree at the wrapped presents this week and realized I don’t even remember what is in the boxes anymore.
I bumped into a table in the foyer of our home this past week and I noticed it kind of wobbled.
We’re closing out another year, a time that makes me wonder what things are slowly disappearing from our world that maybe a generation from no…
Christmas trees used to be so easy for us.
At Christmastime, my mind turns to war.
I can still remember as a child that my parents were in a panic.
We have a new visitor at our house and I am not sure I like him yet.
My 34-year-old son asked me why people would do something like crash into the Waukesha Christmas parade with enough force and deliberation to …
Snow blowing is not going to be the same this year.
I walked in the house from work and there, sitting on the counter, was a giant, red, heart-shaped box.
The call came in just as I was leaving work on Friday. The contractions had begun and our grandbaby was on its way. Our job, to babysit the bi…
The phone rang on a Friday night. Our older son’s name displayed on the caller ID. Nancy and I flashed a panicked look at each other. Nothing …
When your birthday is on Halloween, it comes with certain expectations.
One of the greatest things about the newspaper office, even in the modern era, is that you never know what might walk in the door. Sometimes i…
It’s a well documented fact that people who are married live longer than those who are not.
I am not sure why I put myself through it, but I do it every fall.
Whap! Throw.
Every so often, your mind tricks your body into things that it’s no longer able to do.
This week, as the entire world, already mired in a pandemic, looks back on the seminal moment of the 9/11 disaster, one cannot help but think …
I want vacations to be like something out of Star Trek.
My wife gave me one of those looks. It’s a look that all husbands (and, to be honest, boyfriends, too) know. You don’t know what it means exac…
When the weather is like it has been, hot and humid, that is when my wife says it’s perfect.