I like grocery shopping and I end up doing a good share of it at our house. And because I do that, I have seen first-hand how grocery and household prices have just exploded over the past couple of ye...  Read More

A couple of nights ago, I couldn’t get a diet coke from one of our McDonald’s in our town. The coke was flat, and they couldn’t come up with any ice, so I gave up after three tries there. I went home ...  Read More

All I wanted was a couple of diet cokes. One of the things that my son and I treat each other to are diet cokes from McDonalds. We can get them anywhere, but we love the extra bit of carbonation that ...  Read More

I remember growing up that I had to memorize my home phone number in case I needed to contact my parents. Later I memorized other family members’ numbers and of course friends as well. Today…I think I...  Read More

Yesterday was the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, France in World War II. On that day, thousands of ships and thousands of airplanes and tens of thousands of men attacked the beach...  Read More

I got a lesson in doing the right thing years ago when I was working in a winery during the summer while in college. My job was to “throw glass on the line” all day long. They would bring pallets of e...  Read More