The Blogs

Job Titles It is January, so it is the time for filling out forms. Many services require an update to their files in order to make sure that you pay them promptly when they bill you. Whether it is for the contract with the HVAC service provider or, for most of us over 65, our… Continue reading The Septuagenarian #2-22

Jingle Jangles If you live long enough everything seems to turn back on itself. For me, this comes in form of advertising jingles. Most of the current crop of TV commercials attempt to incorporate either a mostly forgotten song from the 60s or 70s or some indecipherable hip hop tune. I just tune these out… Continue reading The Septuagenarian #1-22

Just released. This is the next in the ever-expanding product of this old man’s mind. Available in the Amazon.com bookstore.

Death of a Friend I got word yesterday of the death of an old friend. The news was not unexpected, still it remains a shock. Of course, at this age death is as close as each morning’s obituaries. When you see more and more people who have died younger than yourself it makes you take… Continue reading The Septuagenarian #10-21

Course Corrections These are the times that try men’s souls – at least those of the Geezer golfers. In late December the pro shops of the region promulgate the new membership rates for the coming year. As the weather turns cold in the southern Appalachian foothills, or as cold as it is going to get,… Continue reading The Septuagenarian #9-21

Take Charge – Carry Out the Plan of the Day Anyone who knows me has come to realize that the twelve years that I spent as a naval officer left me with certain traits and patterns of speech that remain unique to that experience. During my so-called prime years what I had learned and had been trained… Continue reading The Septuagenarian #8-21

Geezer Golf It’s All About the Bounce “Who put the bounce in the bouncy-bouncy…” Okay, so forget about the allusion to Barry Mann’s rock anthem: “Who Put the Bomp?” It is just that whenever I tee up on the fifteenth hole at Magnolia Glenne the tune seems to run through my mind.  For we Geezer Golfers… Continue reading The Septuagenarian #7-21

Geezer Carts The course at which my Geezer associates and I play is not conducive to be played on foot. The meandering way the holes have been carved from the hills and forests of this patch of North Georgia requires using a cart. Nowhere do the holes fold back upon one another as they do… Continue reading The Septuagenarian #6-21

Where My Mind Goes Bedtime Stories It is Halloween again. Although if you had been shopping at Costco in late July, you would have been confronted by racks of costumes and hundreds of pounds of Halloween candy. I am not a Halloweener. I don’t get excited about wearing costumes and I only succumb to the… Continue reading The Septuagenarian #5-21

Last Saturday marked the fifty-first anniversary of the commissioning of Aviation Officer Candidate Class 27-70 at NAS Pensacola, Florida. Like many military milestones it was celebrated with the appropriate ruffles and flourishes that make such events stirring for both the participants and the spectators. I have included below my testimonial to my class and classmates… Continue reading The Septuagenarian #4-21