Ken's Ten Thousand ThingsChronicles
My One-handed, Left-handed Months: The Start of It All
Yesterday, for the first time in almost two months, I signed my signature with my right hand. Until now I’ve been signing it with my left hand — backwards — and since it’s a scribble either way, no one will notice. Where do I start? On January 19th, a Sunday, I was working on some […]
Two Holidays and a Funeral
We don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day really, and in any given week we could be broke and not able to do anything anyways. But I was inspired. There was some story on the radio of a couple that meet each other Valentine’s Day cards. Apparently, merry was inspired as well, as she made me one. I’ve […]
A Long Winter
Earlier this week, I saw the biggest snowflakes I had ever seen. No kidding — they were the size of half-dollars. It was beautiful, but enough is enough. I can hear the birds, and I went out once or twice without a jacket in between flurries. We still have a mound of ice on the […]
Paving the Yellow Brick Road
Okay, it was more of a peach color, but the parts of this century old street that showed was really a simple pleasure to walk on. A few weeks ago, new street signs indicated a change in the alternate parking days, from 4pm Sundays and Wednesdays to 6pm Mondays and Thursdays. The problem was they […]
Iron Chef
This was found in files in 2014, dated 4/20/2000 … this was my meal that Merry and I prepared for “Iron Chef Night”. For a number of weeks, we taped (VHS) the original Iron Chef and had parties on Wednesdays (I believe) where we’d watch it, with every week being someone else’s turn to cook. This […]