Category: Current Events

I went to my favorite pool the other day to do my water exercises.  When I arrived there were three ladies in the pool that I hadn’t seen before and one of them asked, “Are you here to lead our exercise group?”  They went on to explain that they attempted to take part in an …

I stood in front of about 100 people at The Villages Barnes and Noble yesterday.  This is what I said. Those of you who are married, or have ever been married, would you please raise your hand? Take a look around.  Most of us have our hand raised.  Now if you were engaged to someone …

The 2024 MRNA Invitational   The first ever MRNA (Mom, Ruth, Nana, Altogether) Invitational will be held tomorrow on Thursday, April 11th.  This would have been Ruth’s seventy-seventh birthday.  Last year’s event was an Open.  This year’s is an Invitational.  The biggest difference between the two is last year we had two person teams and …

The Villages, Florida promotes itself as Florida’s Friendliest Hometown.  Ruth and I bought our first home here in 2004.  It was a patio villa that we owned for eighteen months.   We bought a ranch home after the villa, sold that after a couple of years, and spend four winters in Palm Springs, California so we …

When I published my book, Pondering Life’s Lessons, back in the fall, it went on sale via Amazon and all other on-line purchasing services through IngramSpark, another online publishing and distribution company.  I’ve sold several books, but most sales have come through people I know.  You won’t find Robert Tebo on the best seller list. …

This picture popped up on one of my social media links. I don’t know where it came from, and you may have already seen this, but I thought I’d offer a brief observation. Enough said.

One of the perks of being elementary principal in Addison was a “shall” provision of my contract.  It said that I “shall” attend State and National conferences each year.  It wasn’t may or might but “shall”.  I had to go. When I landed in Britton, my contract didn’t say “shall”, but I received the ok …

Several years ago, perhaps as many as twenty-five, I got up early at Las Vegas’s Bally’s Casino and went down to play blackjack. There was one other man with me at the table. I sat in the first position, and he sat in the last. Neither one of us was winning or losing. We were …

I like the word pondering. I do a lot of it. You probably do too. The big difference for me is I write some of my pondering down and post them in my blog. I’ve written over 620 stories now. I’ve spent much of the past nine months going through my “posts”, whittling them down, …

My Baby Boomers Singles Club introduction was informative but socially unremarkable.  I’d estimate there were about sixty new people.  There were approximately fifty women and ten men.  If the entire 1,160 members are made up of a similar ratio of women to men, there are potentially 962 women members.  If that’s true, there must be …