51 today, and here I am again.  OK, I said from the start that this “retirement” might be a “Brett Favre retirement”, but actually, it wasn’t; I actually did take an entire year off (unlike Favre, who hopefully now at long last has thrown his last NFL pass).  Maybe it was more of a “George…

OK, after four-and-a-half months of going utterly incognito, I’ve decided that I’m going to Twitter.  Yeah, yeah, I know, I’ve derided Twitter before, and I do think it caters to the narcissistic side of people.  I have no intention of telling anyone what I ate for lunch or about my night of bowling or about…

I”m done at 1991.  9 short of 2000 posts.  I’ve said all I want to, more than I need to, and I’m tired and ready to rest for awhile.  Hanging up the blog, at least for a significant season.  I’ll respond to comments, but I need to retire.  Yes, it may be a Brett Favre…

This bears saying as I celebrate 50 years; take away from it what you will.  For a number of years, like many of you, undoubtedly, I harbored a list of things I would like to try (see “An Abbreviated Bucket List” for the current list, or at least part of it), things that I said,…

A few weeks back, I found myself humming the old Christian classic, “Count Your Blessings”.  Right then and there, I decided that on my fiftieth birthday, one of my closing posts would be “50 Blessings at 50”.  Some of these will strike you as obvious, while others might, I hope, prompt you to consider things…