I forgot one of the best exchanges. In 1963, we traveled back to Cleveland (from Portland, OR) for Irene to meet my family and friends. She was the first Asian person most of them had ever met, except for the few adventurous eaters who went to one of Cleveland’s two Chinese restaurants. We went to dinner at my best…

Hey, Kristin, it’s not just single people who get uncomfortable questions. I used to be hurt or pissed off by some of them, but I learned to use them as an opportunity to amuse myself by thinking up creative, funny (to me), slightly surrealistic answers. For example:

I sent a link to this article to my 14 year old grandson, who has been an “operator” since he was born. I see my job as trying to get him to use his “super power” of manipulation for good. Here is what I wrote to him:

I’m 72 years old, and have had a pc since 1982. I have a stash of Northgate Omnikey keyboards that I hope will last until I croak. I get that laptop makers had to have the function keys across the top, and mostly they aren’t used much anymore. But I’ll use my Omnikey until they pry it from my cold, dead fingers!

I’m 72 years old, and have had a pc since 1982. I have a stash of Northgate Omnikey keyboards that I hope will last…

My life partner and I have been polyamorous since 1967, and together since 1961. I “almost” cheated on her (I did not have sex with that woman!) in 1964, and that lead to a three year discussion of how we wanted our relationship to be. The consensus among people who have studied love, sex, and desire is that many,…

Another way to get rid of okra “slime” is to stir fry it for a while. Take a look at Queen Ida’s okra etouffee recipe in “ Cookin’ with Queen Ida”, also featured in Les Blank’s film about Cajun and Creole food, “Yum, Yum, Yum”.

If human nipples get hard during exercise, and you are a human, don’t be ashamed of that. If someone else is torqued, that is their problem. It is time to accept our humaness and reject being oppressed for it.

I have a few friends who are writers, and have the perennial problems of finding publishers. Poopfiction could be a new genre that would allow snippets of their work to be seen by a wide public and lead to sales of their novels, etc. Poetry is, of course, the perfect poopficti0n. Perhaps this will lead to a…

Having an article and flow chart about snoring and not talking about sleep apnea first thing is criminally negligent. Sleep apnea is life threatening. For people diagnosed with apnea, after 15 years, 50% of those who don’t get treated are dead. 90% of those who get treated are still alive. 1 in 3 men and 1 in 5 women…

Maybe the divorce lawyers should cool their jets. It’s likely that if one partner of a couple is on Ashley Madison, the other is, two. Maybe they’ll just join a swing club, a lot cheaper and more fun.

I don’t want to harsh your buzz, but very little of what is in your guide is of any interest to my sweetie and I. We will soon buy a late model used car. The concerns we have, in order of priority, are:

What about the outline view? Are there cases where it works better than the three methods already expressed?

My wife and I quit drinking in 1975 and haven’t looked back. We are not alcoholics, and we have a very fun life. Watching the havoc alcohol caused in many of our friends lives soured us on drinking. It turns out life is way richer and more rewarding sober.

I’ve been a big fan of the old Northgate Omnikey keyboards. Having used them since the mid 1980’s, I’m loath to give them up, and in fact have horded a half dozen. Now they seem to need some sort of translating hardware between the keyboard and newer computers. I had one from Gigaware that seems to have died. Do you…

The creativity you do is far more important than appreciating others' creative efforts. Creativity, in art, music, dance, cooking, etc, is innate. The problem isn't how to become creative but how to keep from killing it as children grow up. See Ken Robinson's TED talk on schools killing creativity: http://www.ted.com/t…

If I had to guess, I would think making music could be a much better break than listening to it. You don't even need an instrument, although a harmonica, ukelele, or guitar might be fun. You could sing, hum, or whistle. Dancing to what you are listening to might be good, and dancing to your own music might even be…

Aglio e olio. Italian for garlic and olive oil. I first had escarole sauteed with garlic and olive oil around 1960 at the now defunct original Grotta Azzurra in New York's Little Italy. Last night we found our selves with some very bitter salad greens, mostly romaine, and saved them by cooking them aglio e olio. Yum,…

An advisor might invest differently than a client if their goals, net worth, tax issues, age, and/or risk tolerance were different.

I took the BBC smile test, and although I tried to judge the smiles by the way the faces looked, I found myself thinking things like "I would like that person to smile at me." or "A person who looks like that would never give me a genuine smile." So the ability to correctly distinguish genuine smiles from fakes might…

I'm still waiting for it to do chrome tabs from tablets. Wake me up when it becomes truly useful.