The sound and feel of a well hit golf ball (fairly uncommon.)

"" "" "" "" of my BA passing through 6500 RPM WOT.


A staring contest with a bald eagle last Sunday by the lake.

The “Look” I got from my wife when I told her I was getting a Mini Cooper. (All is right with the world)

Watching my Harley snob riding buddy get real small in my mirrors in turns.


Reducing my opponent to sputtering incoherence and personal epithets in a political argument.

A really cold, albeit cheap, beer after mowing the lawn last Saturday.


Lots of small and previously unappreciated things that I didn’t notice when I was younger.


We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.