by admin | Aug 15, 2012 | Defies Description
Kathi Goertzen died a couple days ago. So did Helen Gurley Brown. Gore Vidal died, too, as did Marvin Hamlisch. Along with Kitty Wells, Sherman Hemsley, Chad Everett, Ernest Borgnine, Andy Griffith, Nora Ephron, Don Grady, and of course, JP Patches. Not just this...
by admin | Aug 3, 2012 | Defies Description
There are times when I think back to my childhood and marvel at our innocence. Not only as kids, but as a society. If you recall those days, you could go out for an entire day as a kid and there was a reasonable expectation that you’d return home alive. There...
by admin | Jul 30, 2012 | Defies Description
I’ve achieved immortality. I didn’t really know I ever wanted to – I guess none of us set out to achieve it. But through the wonders of the Internet and the digital lifestyle we’ve all come to know and love, we have, in various degrees, a measure of...
by admin | Jul 20, 2012 | Defies Description
I wrote my first RobZerrvations in high school. Well, I can admit it now, I only wrote one RobZerrvation in high school. Yes, many went to print when I was a junior, but none were mine. It’s not that I didn’t try to write a monthly column. Each month, I...
by admin | Jul 16, 2012 | Defies Description
I was sitting in my office a few days ago when I noticed the King County Sheriff’s helicopter flying around the building. This is always a sign that something exciting was going on. Since it wasn’t a news chopper, I knew the building wasn’t on fire,...
by admin | Jul 6, 2012 | Defies Description
I woke up in a sweat last night. It seems that I have been having this recurring dream, and I can’t seem to shake the whole thing. It starts out with me living in Port Orchard. I was living in a world where no one seemed to understand me, me and my little dog,...
by admin | Jul 2, 2012 | Defies Description
You may not know it, but Washington State is at the leading edge of making biofuels. These fuels no longer hinge on the fact that dinosaurs long ago died, melted and turned into the fuel we nozzle into our cars every couple days at $3 to $4 a gallon. Instead, they...
by admin | Jun 28, 2012 | Defies Description
When I lived in Florida, the nicest of all nice roads was the Turnpike. It shot you from one end of the state to the other (longwise) in style. There were even rest stops in the center that had the obligatory bathrooms, but also a convenience store, gas, restaurants...
by admin | Jun 21, 2012 | Defies Description
I often have a discussion about death. Not because it’s a necessarily great topic or that it is something I necessarily look forward to, but it is one of the inevitable things about life and it’s one of the few things that we can actually prepare for. I...
by admin | Jun 7, 2012 | Defies Description
As you know, my daughter is planning to punch out a kidlet soon. It will be the first grandchild. And while I have had some issues with being old enough to be a grandfather, I think it pales in comparison what someone else (who shall go nameless) is having with the...
