The profile on the dating app said, “Likes baseball!” That clinched it for me. I emailed her, and the rest is history. — The human species never gives up. Even, maybe, when it’s better they should! I guess it speaks of the power of nature that humans partner long after there’s any chance of producing progeny. That’s how I see it anyway! I was well into my 70s when I saw her profile…

When younger, I was endlessly curious about potential topics of conversation among humans. A lifelong study has yielded the following results: I may be an extravert, or I may be an introvert. I may fall into that weird space that psychologists now call ambivert (a combination of the two). At…

While power walking on the Treadmill at the gym, she complained her recently widowed father was impossible. When she told me the reason for her feelings, I understood perfectly — then. We were all close to 60 years old. Most of us were family caregivers to varying degrees if we…

A large part of a fan’s enjoyment of Major League Baseball is the never-ending barrage of statistics. Especially if he or she is hooked into a competitive fantasy league. Here’s a stat that doesn’t make sense. After our fantasy draft this year, the 10 fantasy teams in the league locked…

If you were to take a pill that would guarantee you’d win the contest but die in 5 years, would you? The reports are all over the type of media on which you torture yourself by following the news: deaths from drug overdoses are skyrocketing in the United States. …

She loved her border collie but when she started to feel inferior to the dog her BF had to intercede. — Border collies are indispensable to the small dairy farmers in the Northeast Kingdom, that small slice of green mountains on the Vermont-Canadian border. In addition to all the normal chores on a farm with which a dog can help (protecting farm animals from predators and pests, companionship and protection for…

May have 2 buy Twitter now Can you think of a more unlikely business partnership: the controversial high-powered businessman, iconoclast, richest man in the world, and the strangely successful, entertainer who everybody knows but nobody can quite figure out why he’s so ubiquitous in American culture? As everyone knows who…

Reverse birth control may be the answer. With the leaked majority draft opinion by the Supreme Court that could overturn Roe vs Wade thousands demonstrated over the weekend. …

Very few things in life are perfect. There are those who take umbrage with the concept that anything CAN be PERFECT. I submit — I humbly disagree. Bobbleheads originated in Germany. Production began in the late 1700's. Today, no self-respecting professional sports teams in the world would fail to have…