Protect Your Eyes — July 3, 2021 The photo above shows my ophthalmologist’s medical scan of my two eyes. I applied an oil painting filter from the ArtCard iOS app. Below, ArtCard even displays how this print might look in your living room. Ha, love it.

Three perspectives on adversity and losing sight of goals. — Photo: Overcoming adversity. Losing sight, whether literal or of your goals, is a challenge. (Note that unless otherwise specified, all photos in my Medium articles are mine.) I haven’t written on Medium in a long while. One reason, I lost sight in one eye. PART I Losing sight, literally Losing…

Writing. Everyday memories are sometimes priceless. — Photo: The hardcover of a book printed from my Day One journal, Babysitting Monica. No one will buy this book. No one will have any interest in reading this book. So, why write this journal or print it as a book? When writing, sometimes the everyday, plain notes of daily…

Pass along a kind gesture to someone else. — Photo: The New Milton Cross Complete Stories of the Great Operas and The Harvard Dictionary of Music given to me in 1967. The idea for this article came from my looking through boxes of old books and papers in the basement. …

If a Tree Falls__The Movie — Photo: Screen capture from the movie. Here is the link to the YouTube movie. Link to YouTube movie. Last May, I took a video during a thunderstorm that within the space of a minute caused a large tree to fall near the house when I was with the grandchildren, followed…

Seeking the truth. It’s out there (somewhere). — Photo: A birthday card from my granddaughter has me wondering if we have been visited by otherworldly folks. Is that a dinner table or flying saucer near us? Are the aliens helping themselves to the birthday cake? Are those things in the sky from other dimensions or wormholes? …

I feel a connection to my car. — Photo: My Honda CRV-EX 2002. Newly purchased when I thought that I did not get the job at the Apple retail store. My car and I have many things in common. We are both considered vintage. Our mileage is increasing every year. We’ve lost some of our dazzling shine. I…

Writing novels ain’t easy. — Photo: Timeline scribbles from Jan 2010 for the genesis of The Package, my first NaNoWriMo project in Nov 2018. I knew that my first NaNoWriMo would be a tough commitment, writing 50,000 words in one month. I didn’t win and that is a failure. What I learned was a success…

I Time Travel back to Vienna 1972 and the Bernstein-Mahler Concerts — Photo: A quick photo from one of the Bernstein-Mahler concerts in Vienna, 1972. I was not supposed to take any photos. What is required for Time Travel? Pen and paper, the Internet, a YouTube video. YouTube and other Internet videos occasionally offer the ability to time travel to very specific…