Who gets the vaccine? After the fifth — or maybe the fiftieth time — I’d been asked whether I was going to get the vaccine for covid (the typing monitor suggested “oviduct,” and I don’t know what that is) and I had no ready answer, figuring rightly that I had some time to decide — I had no idea then that I had as much time as I DO have — I looked up the availability of it in Nevada and who is allowed to get it. I figured I might as well submit to the inevitable and get the Mark of the Beast. Why fight it?

Emigration: What’s to stop you from leaving the USA if you’re fed up, ticked off, and ready for a country where you’ll be welcomed with open arms and forever safe? Safe from loss of employment, safe from racism and bigotry, safe from crime? But Mars isn’t open for business yet? …

And should I be okay with that? — My resounding answer is “No, I’m not okay with that.” At 67, I have the niggling feeling that I’m just getting started on a significant journey. People in my family live well into their 90s. My great-aunt and great-grandmother made it to 99 and 100. If that is something other…

I’m so glad they will be okay in These Uncertain Times. One less thing to worry about. — I’ve been reading about the rich and super rich, and the bunkers they are buying and building. And I want to know: Are these millionaires and billionaires prepared to clean and maintain these bunkers with their swimming pools, hot tubs, filtration systems for air and pools, bowling alleys, shooting ranges…

Amped up on life, but where’s love? — The lights in the valley became sharper as the temperature fell, so I stayed out a while longer to enjoy being cold. For ninety days a year I brag to myself that I have a place above the city, away from the summer heat, and Kelly says I stay out…

What has impacted our motivation to maintain old friendships? — A couple of weeks ago, I had major surgery. The person I referred to as my BFF — an affectionate term I picked up from teaching seventh graders — got upset with me the night before the surgery and as of this writing, has not called me. …

Despite its ups and downs, real estate investing is one of the best ways to generate passive income and build equity for the future. — Real estate investing does not require certification, a license, or even the smarts of an Einstein. It mainly requires the belief that most people want a place to crash after work, go potty on their own toilet, and make their coffee in the morning, and therefore will look for shelter…

Only you think you’re not interesting enough. You absolutely are. — Who sez you aren’t interesting enough for an author bio on the back jacket? Only you. It behooves writers to put something in their author section because someone will relate to it. People like to see a writer’s picture and they like to read something about them. It makes the…

Every decade closes with the number 9 and that is one thing we can depend on. — What happened in 2019? It was a very important year by any standards. Not only have we survived almost a full term of the current administration (this phrase works no matter who you support), but it’s also the end of a decade . Closing any decade with the number 9…