Book banning cowards
After a Tennessee school board banned a graphic novel about the Holocaust from local middle schools, comic book store owners from near and far pledged to send students the book for…
Birthday gifts from Elysha and some students
My birthday recently passed by. Another trip around the sun. Amongst the lovely gifts that I received, Elysha arranged for me to spend time in a single engine plane over…
Reasons to be stressed
One of my clients said that my “just because I don’t want to“ lack of drinking alcohol and “never in my life" drug use stresses her out. “Even when we’re…
Bermuda highlights
Thoughts from my recent trip with friends to Bermuda: __________________________________________ Vacationing with friends was something I did a great deal when I was younger, but it's been a long time…
Three words
You meet your 18 year-old self. You're allowed to say 3 words. What do you say? There are many excellent choices to this question. "Buy Apple stock" or "Buy Amazon…
Buttons?
I first learned to drive using an automatic transmission. But shortly after getting my license, a girlfriend taught me to drive a manual transmission, and I loved it. I found…
My Dick’s Sporting Goods card
I have a loyalty card form Dick's Sporting Goods, called a Score Card, but I never use the physical card when making purchases. I don't even carry it with me.…
Chasing fire trucks
When I was 22 years old, I was dating a girl named Christine. She and I worked at McDonald's restaurants on opposite sides of Brockton, Massachusetts. Christine was a college…
I like to fight. Who knew?
Clara's school assignment was to write a food recipe, and if possible, make the food. She chose braided challah. I told Clara that if I had been given the assignment,…
COVID-19 recommended protocol
Just for the record, I agree with Ed Yong of The Atlantic in his piece: It’s a Terrible Idea to Deny Medical Care to Unvaccinated People Refusing medical treatment to…
