Let me say right off, that this column is not an attempt to convince anyone whether we are here by accident or through some divine intervention. If we start by looking at us, Homo-sapiens, we find very interesting concrete evidence of how evolution has changed our species.

We’ve all been “caught” in them. Exactly like the book "Catch-22." Things that not only don’t make sense, but will easily have you running from the entity (governments of any kind), Registry of Motor Vehicles, etc. screaming your lungs out.

There I was driving within the speed limit – and off to my left side I thought I saw something moving. In fact, it was a deer, which proceeded to run directly in front of my car. I hit it with a glancing blow.

The deer kept right on running into the woods. However, my right front light assembly was shattered.

Yesterday, I awoke feeling a bit queasy. Frankly, this is something that rarely happens to me. I’ve always thought I have a “cast iron stomach.” We had no PeptoBismol in the house so off I went to buy some.

Having lived in both Mill Creek for eight years and now Edmonds for four and also having lived in New England for many more years, I got to thinking about how these two areas are alike and are different.

Whenever I find myself becoming too involved in all the trivia of day-to-day living, I find myself  “Up on the roof.” What the Drifters were saying in their song is that for them the same thing holds. Sometimes you just have to “zone out.” Only in that way can you “center yourself.”

We’ve all probably been a target for a financial scam in our lives. They are especially dangerous for older citizens.

Mike Gold shares some of the most “common” schemes.

A fellow entrepreneur friend of mine, who founded two companies in the same industry as the one I worked in (providing computer systems for publishing companies), used to say this all the time; SMOPS - Simply a matter of programming.