Finding the Good in Everyday Life
So I’m just hanging around the house the other day, trying to figure out how I could manage to never shovel snow again for the rest of my life, when the UPS guy drives up and leaves a package at our front door. And this reminded me how I really need to make a better [...]
If you’re “of a certain age,” you know all about The Carol Burnett Show back in the olden days. Back when there were just three channels. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, then you should Google that show. You probably won’t, but you should. The Carol Burnett Show was required viewing back [...]
I posted the other day on Mabel’s first day with us nearly 8 years ago. So it’s only fair that I give Gilbert a little love too. At the time, we thought these two little beagles would be pretty much twins. Well, in some ways they are two peas in a pod, but in most [...]
I love Indian food. In fact, it's my favorite kind of food. And that's something I thought I would never say, having grown up in Kansas. That's because in Kansas the typical diet (at least when I was growing up) was cow, potato, and ketchup. And tuna casserole. When I moved away from Kansas, I [...]
I came across some old videos of our dogs, including this one of Mabel Jo's first day at home. It was the very first time she walked and played in grass. Now, I could have just inserted the video here and left it at that. But then I thought, Why would you just watch a [...]
Kel N’ Rich are kind of a unique story in the music video reaction world. Rich has listened to and played music his whole life. Heavy metal seems to be his main genre. His wife, Kel, is a classically trained musician who was apparently raised in a very strict household and wasn’t allowed to listen [...]
What were kids like when you were growing up? Maybe it was the time when I grew up (in the 70s and 80s), but I don’t seem to remember a whole lot of kindness emanating from other kids, or from me. I’m sure there was kindness now and then, but for the most part I [...]
In the midst of the chaos of January 2021, there was this: “At least we got all those Bernie memes.” Yes we did. And here are some of my favorites. I think the lesson we can all take from this is that Real Men Wear a Mask AND Mittens (sounds like a James Bond movie). [...]
It's Friday! Got a happy dog near you? Then it's a happy Friday. Scientists say people with dogs are likely to live longer than those who are dogless. According to the American Heart Association, we also have a 24% lower risk reduction for death from any cause. Of course, some of us also have shredded [...]
This is sort of a follow-up to my previous post on my 5 favorite cooking shows. Like I said before, I started watching more of these kinds of shows this year with Jodi to avoid news, stress, and anger. At the time, I thought that food travel shows would just be an innocent distraction from [...]