by mike | May 5, 2024 | Aging, Death, Life, Uncategorized |
Jacqueline was my world, my everything. The bravest person I’d ever known, she battled and beat the demon cancer many times during our 3+ decades together. Two of those times she was “toe-tagged”—advised to get her affairs in order. Neither came to pass. But last...
by mike | Mar 11, 2024 | Basketball, Life, Sports, Uncategorized |
My bride, Jacqueline, is a Hawkeye through and through. After we met in the early ’90s we would fly back to Cedar Rapids once or twice a year to visit her parents, Carol and Jack Benzinger, before they passed away in 2011 and 2012 respectively. On a visit in the early...
by mike | Mar 4, 2024 | Aging, California, Life, Quotes, Uncategorized |
Yeah, but later this week (March 6, to be exact) it becomes more than a number to me. It marks how many years I’ve been on this plane of existence since the day I was deposited here by the Mother Ship. Holy crap, 78?!? I thought only old people achieved that number....
by mike | Feb 5, 2024 | Aging, Death, Football, Life, Movies, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
I was saddened to learn about the passing of Carl Weathers last week. The ex-football player-turned actor died “peacefully,” according to his family, in his sleep at the age of 76. Mr. Weathers played linebacker for Don Coryell at San Diego State University in the...
by mike | Jan 15, 2024 | Adventure fantasy, Aging, Books, Life, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
This hardcover copy of the Jules Verne classic, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, has been in my life for as long as I can remember. A “Rainbow Classic,” this edition was published in 1946, the year of this “young fart’s” birth. It is generously illustrated and...
by mike | Jan 8, 2024 | Aging, Holocaust, Humor, Life, Uncategorized |
Being retired means never having to wear a tie. But I was a long way from retirement the last time I actually put on one of the damn things. How long? Let me share this story. QUITE AN HONOR March 6, 1996: a significant date in my life for a number of reasons. First,...
