FEATURED COLUMNS
s I prepare to travel once again to Florida to celebrate my mom’s February 5th birthday, I am filled with gratitude
BY BOB DE DEA | January 30, 2024 at 5:15 p.m.
You Mailed What? Where?
No matter how hard Dawn tried to relax around Matilda, she always felt like there was a competition and she had to stay on her toes to keep up
Feline Savvy
As a cat owner, I have been amazed at the “smarts” demonstrated by my 4-year-old Ragdoll cat. Do cats really have intelligence?
Getting Rid of Stuff
I have lived in my present home nearly 50 years...plenty of time to accumulate things.
Height of Insult
I hate to bore you with the health complaints of a 76-year-old, but I’m hopeful my experiences will help others
Pike Place Market: A Seattle Reminiscence
We had a sauerkraut barrel "working" on our back porch, but it and the backyard garden that kept it going was running out of cabbage
The Grocery Shopping Experience
In view of my advanced age and the fact that human beings have to eat, it’s safe to assume that I have spent a good measure of my life in grocery stores
Skate Bells and Blizzards
For me, Jamaica was a neighborhood in Queens County, where only a sporting goods store, called Davega, had perfect ice skates
Cemetery Slogans
Lately I’ve been getting a lot of advertisements and letters from funeral homes. Do they know something I don’t know?
Craving New Experiences
Someone once passionately expressed to me that they wished to make sure they really lived before they died
Finding Your Feet, A Legacy
Let’s choose kindness. And hope. Not just for ourselves, but as a way of holding the door open for the young ones behind us
My Existential Crafting Crisis
...trailing was its cord neatly stowed in a shiny green and gold contact paper-covered toilet paper tube! ARGH!
Christmas Grace
The first thing I saw was Grace sitting under the Christmas tree in my own little, red rocking-chair, which could only mean that now she was mine!
Paul De Dea’s Wonderful Life
I asked my dad if he had it all to do over, would he do anything differently...
