My dear wife Kathy reported to me this morning a tweet from Elon Musk announcing that today marked the 10th anniversary of the first appearance of the model S, no longer Tesla’s biggest seller, but still attracting 158,722 buyers in the first quarter of this year (1). Next week, 29 June 2022, marks the 12thContinue reading “shocked!”
Category Archives: this life
burn on
Here’s a look at our beautiful fireplace in all its glory, centerpiece of our living room and greatest source of the hygge we seek in these winter months. Whenever either of us is home, it’s burning. Both of us have always loved a fireplace, and I think the only times we didn’t live in homesContinue reading “burn on”
Christmas plug
Still shameless. I’ve just sent Jeff Bezos Musing through a Pandemic. On the Sidelines. Volume IV. Then play on. This grew out of a discovery that all the posts on sports I’d intended to include in Volume III. Indulgences didn’t make it in. I added the few more I’d written since June and presto, aContinue reading “Christmas plug”
on ties
To church on a morning last year before the first shutdown, I wore a tie, the once daily obligation for work that is now a rare treat in retirement. Among the 240 or so of our still rather conservative congregation in attendance, only 8 guys sported neckwear, including me and the young visiting pastor. AllContinue reading “on ties”
unsubscribe!
Unsubsribe! It was a scene you’d expect from a millennial bar: two denizens at the corner with their noses intently in their phones oblivious to their surroundings. But the Palm Pavillion at Clearwater Beach was clearly a boomer bar, complete with a young duo in the corner faithfully belting out hits of the 70s atContinue reading “unsubscribe!”
dandy dozen
Merry Christmas to all my friends and whomever happens to stumble on this site! It’s morning as I write this. No presents yet, not even breakfast. Kathy and I sit by the fire, excerpts from the Messiah playing, sipping our orange-juice free mimosas. The nature of the crisis at hand hit me early. Kathy andContinue reading “dandy dozen”
Thank you, Jeff Bezos
Another little box landed on my doorstep today, this time with 16 oz of currants plus a pop up laundry basket I was sure I needed to bring some order to my laundry room. Lord knows how many things have come to me via Amazon, well I guess you could go to my “orders” onContinue reading “Thank you, Jeff Bezos”
commandments
My oldest brother Nick, 11 months my junior, posted this item on his Facebook page 2 days ago. I just saw it this morning. I thought it was too good not to share.
I like being old
“See here how everythingLead up to this dayAnd it’s just like any other dayThat’s ever beenSun going up and thenThe sun going downShine through my windowAnd my friends they come around” – from Black Peter. Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia. First performed by the Dead December 4, 1969 at Fillmore West. Performed 342 times thereafter. Continue reading “I like being old”
on Harbal
My wife and I have lived in this 1958 3500 square foot brick ranch for over 35 years. We’re perched high atop the Defiance moraine on a little cul-de-sac nestled between Broadway and Plymouth overlooking northwest Ann Arbor. We see the sun set from our deck every day it’s not cloudy. We share the streetContinue reading “on Harbal”
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