Merle's Secular Life

  Mrs. Sneed and I went to the grocery the other night.  When we went to our car after shopping, the lot was empty in our row and only one c...

Health insurance, you can't live with it.......you get it. For the most part I enjoy good health, especially for an older guy.  I ta...

This box of produce was sitting in the middle of the street in Little Italy in Boston.  We never figured out why. Mom makes emotio...

I need 2 tires for my bike and I found just what I wanted on Amazon.  I selected quantity "2" and checked out.  Smooth as sil...

The internet of my days. Some people believe that the great social divides in this country center on rich/poor or the rising immigrant...

Mrs. Sneed and I just trekked up to southern Nevada to do a couple of days of bicycling.  It was great, but the drive to and from is a slo...

Back when I was a working stiff, I used to hear people say that they are more busy in retirement than they were when they worked.  That m...

It's Christmas Eve.  Even for a non-religious guy, Christmas is fun to celebrate...mostly.  The pressure to buy, buy, buy, gives me the ...

Sneedlets of every size and shape Even if you haven't heard of the Pareto principle by its formal name, you probably have h...

One of the worst aspects of government is their ability to pass laws that they cannot or will not enforce.  In that regard, has their...