Author Archives: Mike's Fountain Pen

There’s an old saying:  Life’s like a roll of toilet paper – the closer you get to the end, the faster it goes. The saying resonates more with each passing day.  But the perception of time’s increasing speed is shared by many.  Let’s face it, 2020 was a lost year.  We kept better track of the number of CovidContinue reading “I’ve Been Thinking . . . About Time”

We recently adopted our seventh rescue dog – Lexi – over the past three decades.  I’ll share more about her in a future blog, but let me briefly explain that she is about three, and the first two-and-a-half years of her life – before we rescued her – she was intended to be breeding stock, notContinue reading “I’ve been thinking . . . about dogs”

The middle-aged man walked from his car to the door of my Baskin Robbins.  I could tell by the way he approached that he wasn’t coming for ice cream.  The store was robbed five times in the eleven years I owned it.  He wasn’t there to rob the store. He was wearing a suit, white shirt, and tie.  ItContinue reading “Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho”

A dog is man’s best friend.  If you don’t believe me, lock your wife and your dog in the trunk of the car, and let me know which one is happy to see you when you return. We went to Nancy’s sister’s AirBnB to meet them for lunch.  I decided to take Lexi for a quick walkContinue reading “Man’s Best Friend”

In my previous blog post, “They Look Okay,” I discussed the challenges facing nurses, particularly in the hospital setting, and I provided the statistics for the relatively high turnover rate in the profession. I added a comment about the tremendous increase in their workload due to the Covid virus and suggested that the unvaccinated consider getting vaccinatedContinue reading “They Don’t Look Okay Anymore”

I remember as a kid, sitting in the doctor’s office.  The doctor had examined my wound, given some instructions to my mother, and told me the nurse would return in a few minutes.  The nurse walked into the adjoining room – I could see her through an open doorway, holding a syringe in front of her, asking whereContinue reading “They Look Okay”

As we stayed home at the outset of the pandemic, Nancy became increasingly stir-crazy.  We decided to take drives, to find unexplored roads.  An interesting discovery was a small farm not far from our house.  As we were making our way home from one of our sojourns, I took a quick right and said, “Let’s try this road.”  WithinContinue reading “Just the Nature of Things”

Well, WYSIWYG wasn’t quite what I got. The formatting looked right in the preview, but it got distorted in the email notification. So I went back and quickly (Hahaha!) edited the format. It now appears correct on the blog’s webpage. Sorry about that for the multitudes of you who are reading my blog. P.S. ThisContinue reading “Up On The Roof . . . Hmm”

I traveled full-time when I was consulting years ago.  Being young and single, I occasionally stayed near my project rather than flying home for the weekend.  This was during the halcyon days of air travel, before deregulation.  Tickets were like currency.  If I arrived at the airport early and Delta had a flight to my destination, I could takeContinue reading “Up On The Roof”