Category Anecdote

Penny Walk

My wife and I like to take walks on a regular basis in the area’s community parks. On occasion, we’ve taken our grandchildren with us when their school schedule permits. On one such day, the kids came across a few… Continue Reading →

Digital Avatars

A great deal of time and money is spent to create personal profiles of each of us, typically as a means to influence us in some way. Digital bread crumbs we leave behind are swept up, stacked, sorted, indexed, and… Continue Reading →

The Mary Affect

I guess you might call her an influencer but I just call it “The Mary Affect” in my circle. Mary is my youngest sister. This doesn’t mean she’s a youngster – just my youngest sister.  She shares lots of what… Continue Reading →

Fruit Trees and Weeping Willows

Most of us living in Levittown may be aware that the Levitts provided fruit trees with their newly built homes. Thank goodness that most homes didn’t receive the dreaded weeping willow shown in the plot plan for the Levittowner below,… Continue Reading →

Levittown Radiant Heat

When we were growing up in Levittown, we didn’t understand how unusual it was to go barefoot around the house in winter. Maybe our parents had an appreciation but we were just kids. In hindsight however, I loved the heated… Continue Reading →

The Mosquito Truck

There are a lot of people of a certain age (like me) who remember the mosquito truck that would navigate through neighborhoods spraying a chemical fog. When we were kids in the ‘50s and ‘60s, whenever the mosquito man came… Continue Reading →

A Small Life

Leading a small life, a good life, can create ripples that pass beyond the horizon.

Aspirations

Evolution of man is often in doubt; history is littered with remnants of high ideals buried in the sand.

Change

We risk becoming spectators instead of participants in events evolving around us.

It’s a Sock Thing

I worried about retiring. Would I have enough money, to not only meet normal expenses but enough to allow me to do things I had put off? I am easily bored so — would I have enough to keep me… Continue Reading →

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