Dogs are wonderful creatures. They are fantastic pets (for the most part). And their "number two" needs to be picked up and bagged. I'm really glad my neighbors pick it up, however, they drop that lovely bag in my garbage can...and it's stinky, even when bagged. It's not my dog, why should I have to put up with that?  

Two good Yankee fans who are also friends are Paul Napolitano and Jason Greenberg.  In fact, we share a text chain where we gossip about sports and other important issues of the day.  

 As we approach this weekend, we follow weather forecasts and wonder “rain or shine?”   Will this be the seventh weekend in a row that is “rained out”?   Perhaps rendered numb by the past weekends, (or are we wiser and lea

I have been a member of a study group for several years. Recently,  we decided to engage in a year-long project focused on how we listen and hear others.   

How many of you still pay your child’s cell phone bill?   I know this is a regular conversation amongst my friends.  Mind you, we are not talking about teenagers around this table but rather grown adults.  

To me, there are two types of people in the world, those who like to clean and those who do not. I fall into the latter category; I am not a cleaner. My mother was a world class cleaner. My siblings, my father, and I used to joke that she would follow each of us around the house holding a sponge so she could clean as we were physically making the mess.  

1973 was a good year.  Some of my fave LPs were released that year (Eat A Peach, Harvest,  Times Fase Away, Yessongs, A Good Feelin’ To Know which I selected for this blog’s pic), among others).   A year I  saw great shows by Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, Led Zeppelin, New Riders, Dave Mason, Roger McGuinn and Jethro Tull among others).  It was special.  A year a group of us “emerged” after three years (some four) at “Van.”  Th

According to the CDC’s National Health Interview Survey, which has been tracking American telephone use since 2003, fewer than 30 percent of American adults lived in a home with a landline phone last year. Those who still have one may have set it up ages ago—more than half of Americans over the age of 65 rely on landlines, and fewer than 2 percent of Americans use them as their only telephone.