Month: <span>January 2023</span>

Michael J. Kelley, Stamford / Darien CT. St. John’s Cemetery

large multigenerational site. Great Grandfather to me.


ACDF Neck Surgery – a lot of benefits.

Shelley Izzy Everyone else I like visits and visitors I took out an actual watch. I haven’t worn one of these in 10 years. The Howard Theories NVDA pays me back Walks in the woods Smoothies Shelley This is really the Howard Theory on adaptation, appreciation and that “most everything is an opportunity.”


NYT – The Benefits of ‘Wise Selfishness’ –

A story about the nyt happiness writer and his visit to the Dali lama and a conversation about selfishness – My Howard Theory on this is age old. I learned it and have been practicing it forever. It is one of the 3 or 4 base tenets of my life. (My earliest memory, maybe age…


WSJ: The Way You Tell Your Life Story Matters. Start Now.

The Wall Street Journal’s obituary writer reflects. I have known this since I was 13 or so. It has made everything easy for me. Hopefully easier for anyone who knows me as well. Our lives are stories, some short, some long, some twisted, some boring. But when you realize how short life really is, and…


My Friend Mike –

This can fall under pickleball, this could fall under circumstance, it could fall under surgery chaos theory. but none of those do it justice. I’ll go with divine intervention. The religious kind. I am not all that religious, spiritual as they say, but do like to give space for it, to any and all. It…


So, another surgery, another change, another adjustment and a chance to re-balance, do a refresh (big T word, refresh) and prosper once again. I like, no love, when life has curves and hills and unknowns.

It glides on chaos theory, health and wellness. One minute you chase a pickle ball across a court and the next, your hesitant to bend over to pick that ball up. Lunging after a ball, twisting and turning, yikes. First it was itchy shoulders and neck, then shoulder pain that would not quit or get…


WSJ – Old Age is like a Debenture – From almost 90 year old Fay Vincent –

” Leaving the stage at the right time demands self-awareness.” “I knew that to continue I would not be worthy of what my audience deserved.” George Will – On age and retirement … “One of the consolations of old age is the realization, …. That one isn’t going to die young…. Not everyone receives the…


So, It’s been a while.

Topics here could be any of the following: The weather Neck Surgery Florida and the beach Pickleball Retirement Trustees, Beneficiaries and the next generation Firewood, Chainsaws and Napping Did I say Pickleball ? How about .. umm