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Every year, as New Year’s Day approaches, I begin to think about and create a bucket list for the coming year.

Amazingly and happily, my mother lived to be 107 years old. The week of her death, she was as sharp as she ever was.

I’m not very astute about the geological periods of our planet.

In case you haven’t noticed, Thanksgiving is almost here. Guess that means my Thanksgiving crisis is almost here and I’d better start making some decisions.

I think I am really onto something – a new law of nature. I am almost sure it is right up there with Newton’s three laws.

One of my favorite jokes is that there were these three guys sitting around talking. One asks the others what they think the most amazing invention of all time is.

Someone recently asked me, “What is your favorite motto to live by? Your favorite aphorism?”

In a column last fall, I discussed that in the same way they rate earthquakes on the Richter scale, when something shocks or amazes me, I rate it on the

I recently introduced you to three new terms: “anomia,” “antigeekahood” and “power nap.” Since then, I have been the beneficiary of several new phrases and words from friends.

I don’t mean to preach to you today, but I just can’t resist sharing the message from a book I received recently and which I have used as a program