Category: Current Events

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 …

If you’ve ever flown in an airplane, you know that it’s possible to encounter turbulence.  The shaking of an airplane at 34,000 feet is troublesome to some.  Ruth and I didn’t react to all the moving and shaking that came our way over the years.  We had no control, so we let others do their …

Tomorrow would have been Ruth and my 52nd wedding anniversary. We fell 349 days short. Since Ruth and I eloped to Las Vegas, we’ve revisited the city dozens of times. A couple of years ago, we decided we’d spend a few days in Vegas each September to celebrate our anniversary. We made it every year …

I played in a golf tournament last weekend. It was a team event.  The players gathered on Saturday evening, August 26, to hold a “draft”.  The forty-eight players were organized by handicap.  Those with the lowest handicap were the “A” players, the next were “B”, then “C”, and the final dozen were “D” like me. …

When morning arrived for everyone else, I found out we were running later than expected.  We wouldn’t arrive until almost nine, an hour and a half late. Gary and I went up to breakfast and sat with a couple from Milwaukee who were going to Sacramento just like the women we shared dinner with. They, …