Letter to Ann
posted about 1 year ago | 13 comments
Dear Ann,
This weekend we're going to be celebrating my 55th birthday, I wish you could be here with us. We're going to grill brats and burgers on the patio, and I'm going to make my "famous" potato salad. Your mother is bringing a birthday cake ...
This weekend we're going to be celebrating my 55th birthday, I wish you could be here with us. We're going to grill brats and burgers on the patio, and I'm going to make my "famous" potato salad. Your mother is bringing a birthday cake ...
Dogs
posted over 2 years ago | 3 comments
Do dogs think that they're the smart ones, and we're the dumb ones?
Do they stand in front of a closed door thinking to themselves, "Watch this, I'll get that stupid human to open this door for me!"
And do they bring us a ball and think to themsel...
Do they stand in front of a closed door thinking to themselves, "Watch this, I'll get that stupid human to open this door for me!"
And do they bring us a ball and think to themsel...
The Sounds of Silence
posted over 2 years ago | 7 comments
When my brother was a teenager, he decided to play the guitar. The first, and possibly only song that he learned was "The Sounds of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkle. He played it over and over and over again. That was then, this is now ...
I was p...
I was p...
Bruce Willis and Me
posted over 2 years ago | 11 comments
I am four days older than Bruce, and from there our lives are almost disturbingly parallel. Look at all these similarities....
Bruce was born in Germany, I was born in Wisconsin where there are a lot Germans
Bruce grew up in New Jersey, I grew u...
Bruce was born in Germany, I was born in Wisconsin where there are a lot Germans
Bruce grew up in New Jersey, I grew u...
When the World Wasn't Round
posted over 2 years ago | 0 comments
I sit and look out my window,
And wonder if the sun goes down,
And I ask myself again and I found,
What was it like before the world was round?
Did people sit and look at the sea,
Did they look around and ask each other,
What will it be like if t...
And wonder if the sun goes down,
And I ask myself again and I found,
What was it like before the world was round?
Did people sit and look at the sea,
Did they look around and ask each other,
What will it be like if t...
Undeveloped thoughts on time travel
posted over 2 years ago | 1 comment
The reason we can't travel in time is because we don't understand what time is supposed to be. If we think of time as the fourth dimension with length being the 1st dimension, width being 2nd, and height being third, then step back (use your imagi...
Cookies and Chocolate Cake
posted over 2 years ago | 0 comments
by OldMike
When I was a young boy my mother would say,
Not every morning, and certainly not every day.
Come here and watch what I can do,
And learn it so some day you can too.
I like ...
Working in the yard
posted over 2 years ago | 0 comments
Lawns don't grow much at this time of year in this part of the country. I love to have a nice lawn, and find it frustrating when I can't or don't have the lawn of my dreams. This all started a long, long time ago in a land far, far away - Wisconsi...
The Rules of Life
posted over 2 years ago | 0 comments
1. "Faith" is all we have in life, everything else is provided to us. "Faith" is not a religious concept, but a concept rooted in belief of survival, for whatever reason and by whatever means.
2. No one gets out alive -- even if there's life afte...
2. No one gets out alive -- even if there's life afte...
Time is like a spring
posted over 2 years ago | 4 comments
Sometimes I think time is like a spring, not a straight line, beginning to end, but a coil that wraps closely upon itself but never touches another part. When you're born, you are at the start of the coil or spring, and as time goes on you travel ...
