A guide to some of the things I’ve published on Medium and elsewhere. — Conversations with My Wife Conversations with My Wife (collection) The collected conversations, in case you liked some and want to read more.medium.com Lessons & Observations I Like Being Married One weird guy’s experience being married to his best friend(s)byrslf.co Start With a Partnership Romance is good, friendship is good, but a romantic relationship has got to be a working partnershipmedium.com

🎶 Christmas is coming/ The piles are getting tall… 🎶 — We are still going through all the catalogs we get in the mail. Yes, we amuse easily — shush! Chat with Deb—Catalog Stuff For Dennett And Captain Argentina, of coursemedium.com DEB: I could do this t-shirt: “Sweet old lady? More like Battle Tested Warrior Queen!” Although the less-junior gals in the family prefer “Queenagers.” ME: Lately I’ve felt like a lot…

I have GPS, Apple Maps, and a car that assists me on the highway… but I’m still “lost” at night — I am… not as good a driver as I used to be. Not, “I drove much better in my thirties.” (I’m sixty-four). More, “I drove much better before I retired. In December 2019.” Yes yes, I know I’m not the only one. Roz Warren wrote about her experience: Sixty-Seven and Car-Free 2021 Was the Year I Stopped Drivingmedium.com

And Captain Argentina, of course — Louise Peacock put out a request for W&W writers to post something for Dennett while she’s going through Stuff. A Call for Help to Writers Of Weeds and Wildflowersmedium.com I’m sure Louise was thinking about pretty photos and poetry and such (Ronald C. Flores-Gunkle did a nice job of that). Yeah, well, me & Deb, we make snarky remarks about…

Is it considered elder abuse if they’re younger than you are? — My wife Deb has been having a busy calendar lately. Things with family, things with friends, things at church, a little shopping here and there… So she is about to rush out the door on her way to a school alumni thing, and she frowns. DEB: Honey, I keep leaving…

Junk mail catalogs get very strange around the holidays. Which start in September, apparently. — My wife and I like to look over catalogs that arrive in the mail. They’re a hoot. Probably half go into the trash without a glance, but we like looking over the food suppliers (“food porn,” as we call them) and the gardening catalogs (aka “things to feed the groundhogs”)…

Everything is fine. Everything is normal. So why do I feel like there could be a loud explosion any minute? — Two and a half years ago (March 2020), Deb and I went to see a production of “Kinky Boots” at the Fulton, a local live theatre: Conversation with My Wife (155) Life in the age of “Avengers: Endgame”medium.com The tone of the evening was… weird. Deb compared it to Act I in Avengers: Endgame when half the population had disappeared, but everyone…

Of course I will protect my wife… but… — ME: So there was a news item about the Highland Park shooting on the 4th of July, and a local doctor who ran toward the shooting. Doc Who Helped Parade Vics: 'Horrific, Devastating Injuries' 'I TOLD MY FAMILY TO RUN' Bystanders jumped to help victims in the immediate aftermath of Monday's mass shooting in…www.thedailybeast.com DEB: Was he a combat medic or something?

We’re gearing up for the holiday season already in Catalog Land? Where does the time go? — Deb and I like to leaf through our catalogs during breakfast. We share things we find, especially the t-shirts and signs. ME: “Life is soup and I’m a fork.” That sums up a lot for me. DEB: “I won’t be impressed with technology until I can download food.” Any idea…