Archive for the 'Life and Life Only' Category


Shopping

1 I’m never going to a brick and mortar store again! Well, unless there is service. Like at the ski shop in Vail. But you pay for that service, more than MAP (Minimum Advertised Price). But the employees have been at it for years, unlike at Vail Sports, where the seasonal employees mounted all the […]

The Escape Artist

“The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World”: https://amzn.to/3IiORqL The reason this book is so good is because it describes, in detail, day to day life in the concentration camp, i.e., Auschwitz. You know I rarely read nonfiction. And I was regretting my choice until Walter Rosenberg was shipped […]

Today’s News

“Ticketmaster’s Dark History – A 40 year saga of kickbacks, threats, political maneuvering, and the humiliation of Pearl Jam”: https://bit.ly/3Wf2ICE This is what happens when reporters tell a story. They may get the facts right but they miss the essence. And not all the facts are right. This is a tale from thirty years ago, […]

Being Sick

1 I lost my voice. I don’t remember having laryngitis since the sixties. It was illegal to be sick growing up in my house. You see my mother’s mother was a hypochondriac and as a result if we had a sniffle we went to school and we did not go to the doctor unless we […]