Category Archives: Simple Pleasures

We’re back, Vicki and I, from a week in Mexico on the island of women or Isla Mujeres. Oh my, what a delight are those beaches and the people, the seafood and the Hotel Francis Arlene. Felt like a month … Continue reading →

I’m far more an American Buddhist than a monotheist of any stripe, but I can still express gratitude for my many blessings. To whom, you might ask? That presumes a whom.  A whom, ahem, it presumes.  I prefer the amorphous, … Continue reading →

Okay, this guy’s work you must know. Bill Hicks Live Check it out. Here’s the Wikipedia entry, which starts more or less: Hicks is often compared to Lenny Bruce (although he frequently denied knowing much about Bruce’s life or work) … Continue reading →

Technology provides such delightful time wasters. There are the obvious ones, TV and movies and such. Then there are the delightful offshoots. Lately, some of my spare time has been eaten away flying above and between old addresses, some of … Continue reading →

My father’s father, with the bushy eyebrows, who lived (when he lived) in Union, New Jersey, used to beat the pants off me in chess.  No letting the little kid win so as not to discourage him.  Nor did it. … Continue reading →