Personal Reflections of a Middle-Aged Man

Thoughts and Opinions as I Grow Older

Category: Being Frank About Life

  • Making Up for Lost Time

    Well, we have another apparent sign the pandemic is coming to a close, for all practical purposes, in the U.S. Not only are administered vaccines on the rise, so too,…


  • First Time for Leeks

    The wonderful thing about trying new recipes is the joy of also tasting new ingredients. It is also a time to try a mixture of ingredients one might not think…


  • Corporations and Doing the Right Thing

    I’m sure you’ve seen the commercials where Walmart is advertising it has food collection boxes at all of its stores. Or maybe where ExxonMobil talks about algae as the fuel…


  • Take A Moment

    Today is the kind of day to just take a moment. Sit on the front porch with the dog beside you. The sun just starting to set. Still warm enough…


  • Back to the News

    One day last week, I felt it was time to go back to watching some news. It wasn’t a feeling of having to go back right then, just a feeling…


  • Cooking/Baking is Exercise!

    When using Fitness or Noom apps, and possibly others, they allow one to add extra exercise activities to the calorie burning count for the day. Do some yard work, add…


  • Vaccine Side Effects

    We received our second Covid vaccine on Thursday. This has started the two week countdown to when we can begin to carefully socialize again if we so choose. Since we…


  • Sous Vide

    This is a new cooking term I learned this week. The term means under vacuum, or also referred to as low temperature long cooking. I had seen it being done…


  • Good Help is Hard to Find?

    Over the past few years, I’ve been a little upset with some businesses as a customer. It stems from having to wait in line for an abnormal amount of time,…


  • My Kingdom for a Hose

    My current quest is to help out my vegetable gardens. Last year I discovered square foot gardening, which did better than I had thought they would. This year I have…


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These are the inner wonderings and thoughts of a middle-aged man who happens to be a father, husband, grandfather, friend, brother, son, and thinker.