• twenty-four

    twenty-four

    Today marks exactly 24 years since Susan and I got married. Twenty four years! What’s shocking to me is just how much 24 is an ‘old people number.’ I can remember as a kid when some relatives celebrated their 25 anniversaries. Those people were old. We’re not old. Certainly not. I guess the other thing…

  • Well, I made it to 46.

    Well, I made it to 46.

    My birthday was last week, and as I often find myself doing at this annual life-marker, I look at what others had done by my age and the ole’ “who died at my age” question. So I’ll tell you: Pierre Currie, husband to Marie and Nobel prize-winning chemist & physicist, was hit by a horse-drawn…

  • more things we forgot about

    controling the temperature in the house radio leisure activities – all these recreational activities that people have specific equipment for trains pears sparkiling water garages dandilions dish washers people referring to carbonated drinks as “pop” bike paths that were actually designed and built to be used for recreational biking plugging things directly into the wall…