Happy Birthday Mom

Memories of my mom speak to me in February, her birthday month.  She passed away  in 1992 at the age of 84.  Still, when something happens, significant or mundane, often my first thought is what will I  tell mom.  Some times I can see her…

Cowboy Up

It’s Rodeo time in the Old Pueblo, the Fiesta De Los Vaqueros has been a Tucson tradition for over ninety years. I was six years old when my family left Chicago and headed west. I grew up looking forward to the excitement of rodeo.…

End of an Era

So this is it, no more playful banter while Monty tries to read the sports page and I constantly interrupt with important issues from Ask Amy. The sections of the newspaper passed back and forth like a football over the cereal bowls.  It…

I'm Not Buying It

  The Super Bowl is this weekend, get ready for some great commercials. When you watch of all those commercials is pays to remember, what you see isn’t always what you get. Watching a video on the making of TV commercials can be…

Are You Smarter Than . . .?

  Life with a puppy, or are you smarter than a five month old?  We keep reminding ourselves we only have to be smarter than a puppy, but when we finally turn out the lights at night we aren’t sure who won the day.   The first…

Go Postal

Before 2018 ended, I carefully wrote 2019 on the first twenty checks in the check book.  Twenty checks will last until September and by that time I should be used to 2019. I also made a trip to the Post Office and picked up several books…

Mickey Mouse

Our yard birds are always hungry so keeping the bird feeder stocked is a daily chore.    Yesterday when I made my morning trip to the gardening shed,  I got a little surprise.  Being an old desert rat, I’m always  careful to look…

Password Mystery

Here we are in a new year, time to get organized.  I’m not talking about  straightening the kitchen junk drawer. Time to get serious about our password situation.  I Googled passwords today and in 58 seconds there were over 3 million…

New Year's Resolutions

According to Wikipedia - A New Year's resolution is a tradition, most common in the Western Hemisphere but also found in the Eastern Hemisphere, in which a person resolves to change an undesired trait or behavior, to accomplish a personal goal…

School for Miss Daisy

  I guess the fun and games are over, I started puppy school last week.  I thought I ran the world and now I find out there are expectations even for puppies.  I was getting my people trained just the way I wanted them,…