MIKE'S AT THE BEACH

One of the big things in the news lately is the odd phenomenon of protestors and anarchists desecrating, defacing, and destroying monument...

I don't watch 60 Minutes every week as some of their stories have lost the legendary balance.  But I'm always drawn to at least the...

I saw this little hokey saying the other day somewhere out on the net and thought that it was pretty outlandish.  I mean after all, so far...

With the unfolding of events over the last several days we've been inundated with analysis, articles, photos, meme's, and 24/7 cove...

By now you've seen the horrific photos and videos of the takedown and murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Policemen.  By any meas...

We tried this one time when we were in Hawaii.  There is a definite technique to it.   I remember that it wasn't difficult to get up bu...

When I started this blog, I would routinely quote Peggy Noonan and reprint her columns that I thought were particularly poignant or presien...

(May 2021). This is an update to my annual Memorial Day message that I've published every year since 2015.  It never gets old and is ne...

Every single day the blame, the recriminations, the looking for scapegoats, the hope for failure continues.  I really don't think I...

It's been 6 days.  6 stinking days!  6 days since I decided to "social distance" from the blog and just be a watcher of even...

With almost 3300 posts covering almost 8 years, it's time to...socially distance.  There is just so much vitriol in the public discours...

Life, in many ways, has become exhausting.  The Covid 19 pandemic has thrown us all off our game.  There are so many impacts and so many t...