Women and men are as different as chalk and cheese. Thankfully! — Ever since the first multi-celled organisms on primitive earth figured out sex was the best way to reproduce, there has been an ongoing battle between the sexes. Some creatures take it to the extreme such as the Praying Mantis. The male, generally smaller than the female has to figure out…

The opinion of a 77-year-old white male If any people have the right to gloat over the way they handled COVID 19 it is New Zealanders led by a youthful, female prime minister. But the country’s PM didn’t gloat over the successful suppression of COVID 19 unless you call doing…

It’s not easy. — Accessing small business financing can be the bane of many small business owners. Traditional banks are not there for start-ups and small business owners who have only been in business for a short period of time. Traditional banks generally require substantial collateral for small business loans applications and even then…

Not that I have anything against breasts — Are some writers (and readers) living lives so devoid of important issues that their focus on the female mammary glands is all they have? I know I’m going to take some flack on this subject — but Jeez Louise. Give it a rest. There is a enough titillating (Sorry about…

The cruise ship industry. — What is a Petri dish? According to Wikipedia; “A Petri dish is a shallow transparent lidded dish that biologists use to hold growth medium in which cells can be cultured, originally, cells of bacteria, …”. My definition of a cruse ship is: “A cruise ship is a floating steel city…

Covid is different for everyone. — On Monday afternoon, I developed a sore throat. Just a normal springtime cold I thought and took two Tylenol. That eased the discomfort but by the evening, I began feeling quite lethargic and decided to have an early night. I woke around four in the morning with a series of…

Actually, 10 things you may not want to know. — Putin is still a member of the KGB Vladimir Putin is still a Lieutenant Colonel in the KGB, Russia’s notoriously brutal secret police, in spite of the fact that he is the president of Russia. There is a saying in Russia; “you never leave the KGB — alive.” Putin lacks empathy In 2000, the Russian submarine Kursk exploded and sank …

No, that’s not what I meant. — A friend of mine read my story entitled “ I’m An Atheist But I Might Be Open To a God”. and wrongly concluded that my title indicated I was looking at believing in a god in a spiritual sense. While he was enthused about the title, he was disappointed in…

Possibly one of the most confusing languages on the planet. — English is a bastardized language. It borrows from a plethora of other languages including Anglo-Saxon, Latin, French, Greek, old Germanic, Old Norse, Dutch, Celtic, Norman, Hindi, Hebrew, and Arabic. The very first version of English came into use around the 5th century when Germanic tribes of Angles, Saxons, and Jutes…