Tag: Relatively Speaking
Finding your risk tolerance is an investment in antacids
By a show of hands, who is comfortable with the volatility of their investments? Just as I thought. I don’t see any hands, but then I am inside your newspaper and can’t see you very well.
I don’t care for Medicare physicals
“Honey,” the wife said, “how did your Medicare physical go today? Did you do well?”
Relatively Speaking: Local man’s meniscus crushed by falling tree
Back in September, I tore my meniscus. Before this injury, I thought a meniscus was something that was thrown by naked men in ancient Olympics, you know, the meniscus throwers.
My cell phone … it’s a classic, a collectible, an heirloom
In every household there is one person who is the techy, the IT specialist, the problem solver, when the electronics malfunction.
Deck the halls to look like a beer joint
Christmas is all about traditions, some wonderful, some dreaded. (Fruitcake and eggnog would fall into the latter category. Although I still have a fruitcake from 1973 that I used to anchor my boat.)
Relatively speaking: Trivia night on Tuesdays — planet on it
Almost every Tuesday night for the past year, the wife and I go to a local establishment to play trivia. Of course, this was the wife’s idea because as new septuagenarians, she is concerned for our mental acuity.
Random thoughts on turning 70
This week, the wife and I log in another decade on the old odometers. Yes it’s true, we are turning 70.
A diss-pear-aging day in my backyard
Sometime in the late 1970s, the previous owner of our home decided to create a fruit orchard in the backyard. While at first that idea seemed like a good way to provide delicious produce for the family, in reality it was mostly a way to attract bees.
