Life After 60
by Douglas Kinney
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Part-time Job
I guess Walmart has decided they need more help. The self check out lines are wonderful.........FOR THEM. I used to work for them, but I never worked for free. And that is what they are asking...
How Do You Like Me Now?
I miss the days of $1.47 a gallon for gas. It wasn’t that long ago. And we kill one pipeline only to have hackers shut down another. And gas prices are $2.75 a gallon. And add to the stupidit...
Mass Shootings
Before you try to sell me on the fewer guns and more control conspiracy forget it. Gun’s are not the problem. A gun has never hurt anyone on its own. There has to be human intervention. But I ...
Southern Gospel Fans
I have never been good at self-promotion. I don’t know what it is, but to me, it seems more like bragging or thinking you’re better than others. That is not my style, but there are times is you...
Bucket List
As we ( I ) grow older we look back over our life and wonder why we wasted so much of it. And we start the dreaded list of regrets and try to cram a lifetime of living into a few years. The inf...
Turn Around Don't Drown
How many times must we say this? Our area is looking at some heavy rainfall today that will possibly lead to flash flooding. And the warning we get, every time…Turn Around, Don’t Drown. Are we...
Wet Hair, Lather, Rinse, Repeat!
Maybe it is my sarcastic personality, perhaps it is my analytical mind or it could just well be I am a smart arse! (combination of all three?) I sometimes take the things I read and hear far to...
The Rule Of Two's
My dad died when I was 12. He was a Navy Seabee and was stationed in Honolulu Hawaii on Dec 7th, 1941. He helped clean up Pearl Harbor. Of the things he taught me in that short time, one beca...
Policing in America
Well, let’s jump on the police reform wagon for a while. This subject is of great interest to me as I will be going to work for a city police department in the next few months. Yes, there a...
The Verdict
History was made yesterday. Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter. Please do not read into this that I think Chauvin was not guilty, but I am trying to wrap my head around the...
Infringement upon my Rights
The Second Amendment has long been debated over exactly what the wording means. Opinions are like backsides, everybody has one and they stink! Thus I share mine. If we prohibit everyone fr...
Computers NEVER make mistakes
Ask some people and they will tell you computers never make mistakes. Ask a programmer and they will tell you computers do what they are told to do. Computers do at times have a mind of their o...
Thou Shall Not Lie
I was raised in church. Sometimes I was dragged to church. So it is no surprise that the church had a great effect on me. All those do’s and don’t. Granted some of them are black and white, “...
Men don't read instructions!
One of the many things men do that drive women insane, other than not listen when they are talking? Men don’t read instructions. And there is a simple reason for it. Men are visual. Show us p...
Career Change
Change is almost always difficult. Well for me at least. It’s leaving the familiar and moving into the unknown. I have learned more and taken more courses in the past 3 years of my life than a...
Kids, do the Stupidest things
I know, I was one! I will not go into the long list of indiscretions, and there were many. Even today I can’t explain why I did the things I did. I am sure it has something to do with the deve...
Good Friday?
I have never understood why we call this particular Friday, Good. From the religious aspect, it is the day Christ was crucified. Not what I would call Good. And on a personal note, it was not ...
Men of a certain age
Oh yes. Once we reach a certain age, medically speaking, there are wonderful tests that await us. The one I remember most and liked the least, “drop your pants and bend over the table.” I swea...
Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986
All you Californians know about Proposition 65. The rest of us not so much, other than what we read on those warning labels. I mention them only because I see them on almost everything. I ...
Excessive bail?
The Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits bail from being excessive. My question, what is excessive? Granted what may be excessive for one person may not be for another. ...
Life On Mars
The United States has spent billions to look for life on Mars. John Gray made a few million writing about the difference between men and women in his book, ” Men are from Mars Women are from Ven...
The Lighter Side of Marriage
First off, let me state I am no more qualified to give marriage advice than I am to treat you for cancer. I can only speak from experience and somedays that may not be advisable. Someone once a...
Ban Assault Rifles
You can have my guns when you pry them from my cold, dead hands! Yes, the world has gone insane. When it is easier to just get a gun and kill your perceived problem! I have no problem with str...
Covid 1 year later
2020 was on for the record books. This time last year I was at home hunkered down like many others, waiting for Covid to get me or quickly pass. Neither happened! Not that I am complaining. I...
Generation E
I am a baby boomer, which means, I am really close to retirement. Had I planned better I would have already retired but alas at 21, 65 was a long way off and I had plenty of time. Flash forward...
Book Description
What Life is like (at least for me) after 60.