The secret to a good speech is to have a good beginning and a good ending...and have the two as close together as possible.

Happy Day everyone. Welcome to the continuing saga of my laborious recovery. I got several diagnoses from my doctors, some semi-serious, and others not quite as serious. There was no one specific illness that made me so sick that I required three days in an acute care hospital, but it seems …

A shop owner placed a sign above his door that said: “Puppies For Sale.” Signs like this always have a way of attracting young children, and to no surprise, a boy saw the sign and approached the owner; “How much are you going to sell the puppies for?” he asked. The store owner replied, “Anyw…

A grandfather was delivering his grandchildren to their home one day when a fire truck zoomed past. Sitting in the front seat of the fire truck was a Dalmatian dog.  The children started discussing the dog’s duties. “They use him to keep crowds back,” said one child. “No,” said another, “he’…

1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay ‘them.’

Many people are quick to think of growing older in a negative light. Although there certainly are some side effects of aging that one may wish to avoid, people may find that the benefits of growing older outweigh the negatives.

Prescription medications are a necessity for many people. The American Academy of Family Physicians says that, each week, four out of five adults in the United States will use prescription medications, over-the-counter drugs and/or various supplements. Approximately one-third of adults take …

Random acts of kindness, I think they call it?  

Why does it happen? In general, “when a glasses wearer enters a warm environment after having been in a cooler one, his/her glasses may ‘mist up’ due to the formation of condensation on the lens surface.” He went on to say that plastic lenses demisted more rapidly than those made of glass.

When my grandson asked me how old I was, I teasingly replied, “I’m not sure.”  “Look in your underwear, Grandpa,” he advised, “Mine says I’m 4 to 6.”