This is an opinion column by Mike Oliver who writes about his diagnosis of Lewy body dementia and other health and life issues, here on AL.com and his blog.
Since being diagnosed with a brain disease I think a lot about my brain, with my brain.
Isn’t that a conflict of interest?
My brain could be withholding important information.
Went fishing recently for the first time in years. I learned: Fishing is meditation.
Getting ‘bobber focused,’ I call it.
People who retire and say they are going fishing mean they are going to do nothing.
Fishing is a lot of nothing. But I believe nothing is something.
In fact nothing is better than some things.
As much as I worship my dog, I sure take his name in vain a lot
So, I see that a 12-pound chunk of moon rock sold at auction for $612,500 or about $51,000 per pound.
Outrage!. That’s earth pounds! Personally, I think it’s only worth its moon weight – which is about 2 pounds — for a total of $102,000.
$612,000? What a rip-off!
I’m careful with my money I tell you. I’m interested now that the Mega Millions jackpot is $1 billion.
I wasn’t interested in going to all the trouble for $900,000,000.