https://youtu.be/TVL4mDFX3rY He Thinks He’ll Keep Her She makes his coffee, she makes his bed She does the laundry, she keeps him fed When she was twenty-one she wore her mother's lace She said, "forever, " with a smile upon her face She does the carpool, she P.T.A.'s Doctors and dentists, she drives all day When … Continue reading He Thinks He will Keep Her

The use of “funeral services” is often today replaced with “memorial service” or “celebration of life”.  The honor to the dead and sharing of memories has become traditional for many people. Memorial services had seemed unnecessary to me and a waste of money. Robert Duvall starred in the movie Get Low about a country hermit … Continue reading Celebration of Life

My mother died on January 7th, 1996, just days after her 72nd birthday (12/30/95).  It seemed too soon for me, then 47, and even more so now as I approach 72. Saturday January 6th, 1996 my mother was again back in the hospital, 18 miles away, with pneumonia. I had planned on visiting her but … Continue reading Guilt

https://youtu.be/YIbYCOiETx0 The Lone Ranger Code of Conduct (written by writer Fran Striker 1933) I believe that to have a friend, a man must be one. That all men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world. That God put the firewood there but that every man … Continue reading The Lone Ranger Code

Clip from Bob Hope show. Vietnam 1967. https://youtu.be/C32PcN-VDvw I was “there” (almost) –had the option of going but preferred reading and would have needed binoculars from where I would be viewing (assigned unit seating areas). Love Bob Hope. Even more I love Ann Margaret and regret missing one of her visits to Vietnam. Ann-Margret Receives … Continue reading USO Christmas Show – Long Binh, Vietnam 1967

The financial illiteracy crisis in this country costs us a fortune – and this will only continue. It has already crippled the retirement lives of almost half the boomers, and if something isn’t done, the Gen Xers and millennials aren’t going to fare much better. It’s a sad fact, but 47% of boomers have nothing … Continue reading Financial Illiteracy: This One Will Cost You

        As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is Authenticity. As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody if I try to force my … Continue reading As I Began to Love Myself