So many things to say to myself, and yet my mind refuses to be organized enough, long enough, to hold them together. So Maybe I'll start with breakfast. No, coffee. I stretch my coffee club coffee to make it last until just a day or few before the new month's bag arrives.  Membership in a coffee club adds to life's happy anticipations, and the June chapter should arrive about June 5th or so.  Now breakfast. This Time of year in 1954, when I arrived home from my freshman year at UF Gainesville, my mother taught me a treat. A hamburger-size very lean ground beef patty on a slice of whole wheat bread, up near the burner in the oven, to broil long enough to char the meat on the outside, but leave it raw inside. Salt and pepper to taste. Nowadays I buy a package of 96% or 97% lean ground beef, turn the stove burner on HIGH, turn on the fan and open both doors, and, while two slices of Dave's good seed bread toast in the toaster oven, in the sizzling hot skillet, sear a thi...

  "My friends, life is short, and we haven't much Time," so Death, in articles online and a current essay in The Atlantic, I've been reading about death, a suggestion for increasing happiness and satisfaction with use of Time. Nobody wants to arrive at the end of life filled with regrets about things we didn't do and say. And as one counselor put it, he'd never yet had a patient who, nearing life's end, said, "Oh how I regret not spending more Time at the office," it's more likely to be regrets for not spending more Time with family and loved ones.  But then, how we invest or spend our Time is the proof of our values in life.  As a matter of fact, I do have regrets: during my Navy years and business years after Navy retirement, I was the ultimate workaholic, including working Saturdays and Sundays when we could have been out on family adventures.  The suggestion that I've read is to change one's life by a simple thought. When I wake u...

IDK, do you ever read Vox? I've copy and pasted a Vox essay below, because I strongly recommend reading it and pausing to contemplate.  Vox can be a different sort of reading experience. The article below is such, where, not only at the end, but throughout while reading, I wasn't sure whether my reaction was "Right on!!" or "Say WHAT?" Part of it may be differences between US English and UK English, but I think mainly "Right on!!" is my response. An online commercial that depicts a woman sitting on a toilet, for example - - my thought is OMG, if this is a world where such is acceptable I've lived too long, Xapov, where are you?* All the old ways weren't best as I "knew" they were when I lived there, but I do come from a civilization and culture where, when, and in which we knew such a thing as propriety, we were raised to know what was proper and what was improper, what was offensive and should embarrass us; whereas in America (an...