The Coolness Factor

We all want to be cool. That’s how we grow up, jockeying within our own peer groups to maximize our self esteem. Being cool is well, cool! Now that I’m past sixty years of age, it appears to me (and everybody else) that I’m not all that cool any more. My two teenagers...

The Cove

Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where in an hour or so I’m begin day three of work on repairing the main water line from our pump to our house. My gosh, time flies. Old timers to cbaontheweb.org will remember that back in ancient times there was only one writer of...

The COVID-19 Lockdown Playlist

If you’re looking for some quarantine-appropriate music, look no further. Here are 40 tunes to bring you down, lift you up, remind you of better days, but also of brighter days ahead. There’s mostly bluegrass, but a bit of country, because if you’re like me, you think...

THE DAILY GRIST Ten Items or Fewer

Item 1: There’s a multicolored vehicle running around our friendly town of Turlock. The guy who owns it apparently is in the pest exterminating business. The motto on his truck says, Just Say “No!” to Bugs. Item 2: I received three calls last week from a gentleman...