An impending surgery on my neck has occupied my thoughts this year. In January, I had to see a neurosurgeon. They ordered an MRI, and it showed vertebrae in my neck pressing on my spinal cord. This is the same condition that prompted surgery for Anita last year. It was early in the ski season. I had only skied twice. My doctor advised me to stop skiing and to refrain from participating in any high-velocity sports. I argued that I wasn’t feeling any pain there, but was experie

Shortly after we moved to Long Island, my grandsons asked their mother, “When’s grandpa going to have us over for pizza?” And as you probably know, I have made a few pizzas in my day. One Sunday, when his mom and dad were away, I invited Grandson Alex over to help me connect some Bluetooth devices I was having trouble pairing. Once Alex got everything working. We went into the kitchen to make some pizzas. I bought dough at Uncle Giuseppe’s, my favorite supermarket. My tiny ki

Harvey Castro This is a painful and challenging blog to write because my close friend Harvey Castro passed away recently from a rare...

ONE OF OUR LOCAL WILD TURKEYS As usual, time is flying by quickly. We’ve been here two months already. Where should I begin this blog? I...

Bob Waiting for the Movers I want to start by thanking all of you who read and replied to my May blog, “Our Move to Long Island.” It had...

Joyce Moving Van We did it! After more than a year of planning, we are on Long Island. We signed our lease this week at Pinewood Estates,...

You wonder why you have so much stuff when you start packing to move. Why didn’t we get rid of that useless piece of… the last time we...

Well, this is it. Our move to Long Island has turned into the home stretch. We’ve contracted a highly recommended moving company for a...

Recently, I had to decide how to dispose of my Lionel electric trains from the 1950s and 1960s. As many of you know, Anita and I are...

Wishing all of my fellow veterans, past and present, a Happy Veterans Day! This Veterans Day, I would like to thank those who gave their...

This time of year, I daydream about my favorite sport, skiing. I’m reminded the ski season is approaching when I get a call from the...

The months of July and August seemed to fly by. But not for my wife, Anita. As many of you know, Anita was hospitalized for a month...

9418222 © Galina Barskaya | Dreamstime.com I’ve been thinking a lot about aging lately. It’s probably because that’s what’s happening to...

(Cartoon by Sandy A. Reed, our friend Sandra Read's father.) Anita and I have decided to move back East. Not right away, but around this...

As many of you already know, our little cockatiel, Skipper, passed away recently, leaving us sad and our home empty. For the past year,...

In my research on WWII, I have read a lot about the role of the Pulitzer-prize-winning author Ernie Pyle (no relation to the fictional...

I used ChatGPT to generate a Thanksgiving greeting for my blog last month. I was pretty surprised by what it produced; it was well done....

Last week, Anita and I attended a presentation by Melanie Mitchell, a professor at the Santa Fe Institute. She discussed the future of...

This month, I’m disheartened by the war that broke out in the Middle East. I have also been following the other one going on in the...

Well, here it is—another month has gone by, and so has another summer. I’m happy to announce that this month is the fourth anniversary of...