The Rose Garden at Encanto Park in Phoenix is not the Huntington Gardens in Pasadena and we got there after the first bloom. Which because of the heat may be the only bloom in Phoenix. We did catch th...Read More
Penultimate Adjective: Last but one in a series of things; second to last. Example: Thomas is the penultimate brother. Only Matthew comes after him....Read More
I got this post card from Germany via Postcrossing. I think is a anthropomorphized, cross-dressing, beer, sexual innuendo mashup joke. It is at least a double entendre. Anyway it made me laugh and cre...Read More
The instincts and attitudes of a septuagenarian rarely change much. In your 40’s your eyes go bad, in your 60’s your hearing goes bad and in your 70’s your ability to change vanishes...Read More
Sanguinarian Noun: A person who is optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation. From Sanguine. Example: “Simon the sanguinarian didn’t seem upset by th...Read More
Who will win the trade war between the US and China. I explored data from the markets and it looks like Chinese markets are a lot more concerned than US markets. The orange line is the S&P 500 and...Read More
Well the hiking season with the Leisure Hikers of Brandeis has ended and it was another great year. There were of course some “porcupines,” but it was a very nice group with a shared inter...Read More