At the end of the day, and the end of the week, at the end of my life, just want to say I contributed more than I criticized. — Brene Brown

I know people in the seventies who are vigorous and useful and people who are thirty-five who are in lousy physical shape and can’t think straight. Age doesn’t have much to do with it. — Harrison Ford

With gratitude to KarenR — “But what can I do? I’m just one person,” said 7 billion people.

Going to take some time this month and sort through some lines in my stash. Some have been in my notebooks. Some have been hidden on napkins and torn scraps and were only recently unearthed in domestic and office archeological digs…

Tom Welge is a longtime friend IRL and President and CEO of Gilster-Mary Lee Corp. in Chester, IL. It is with his graciously expressed permission that I share this with you here for your edification – – – I was…

Welcome to July 2024 and to JULINES …as in “July Lines.“ Going to take some time this month and sort through some lines in my stash. Some have been in my notebooks. Some have been hidden on napkins and torn scraps and were…

Isn’t it funny how words look different at different times in our lives? For example: benign and beginning. And isn’t it funny how sometimes the relationship between words takes on previously unnoticed significance? Again, for example: benign and beginning. Funny.…

That Bonus Blog either scratched an itch I didn’t know I had or else it started something itching.Either way, here’s the spouse of the person I quoted in the same column —With my time waning, cuing up things I’ll do…

Welcome to July 2024 and to JULINES…as in “July Lines.“ Going to take some time this month and sort through some lines in my stash. Some have been in my notebooks. Some have been hidden on napkins and torn scraps and were…

Seven years of retirement are somehow already in my rearview mirror. Here’s one of my favorite columnists wiping unexpected fog off that mirror and pointing at the road ahead — EXCERPT: A bucket list seems to work for a lot…