The dark roasted, strong, freshly made coffee is filling my nose with it’s ‘morning is going to be just right’ smell. Akemi’s light roasted, regular strength coffee is making as I sip mine. We struggled for years across the light versus dark, strong versus weak divide, her forever making too-weak coffee and me forever making too-strong coffee. We bought a…
Category: Thought Provoking
Wisdom of Solitaire?
One of my few vices left is playing solitaire. I have played the same game of solitaire my whole life. My mother taught me the game when I was a child. Maybe to help me work on numbers and logic, maybe because she played a lot of solitaire. My little brother played too. We all watched each other’s games like…
Service as a Requirement for Office: What do you think?
“It should be a requirement to have served to even run” said Josh Butner, a Navy veteran running for public office quoted by the Union Tribune from an interview with Voice of San Diego. The firestorm that followed is typical of our sensitive world today, but does Butner have a valid point? If his point is valid, what would be…