For all of you dark film noir classic black and white movie buffs, you will want to watch this 1944 psychological thriller called The Woman In The Window by legendary filmmaker Fritz Lang.  It starts off with a rather unassuming professor becoming involved with a beautiful model and goes down, or is that goes dark, [...]

Don’t you just love it when you are told something is for your convenience? Like when your credit card company sends you a notice that tells you for your convenience they have raised your interest rate to 24.95%.  Or for your convenience they now have online billing – which means that they are no longer [...]

I went ocean sailing today.  I listened to some great jazz on the radio during the 45 minute drive to the sailboat.  I sailed alone, which I do often when I need to get back to nature – there is a sense of peace and mastery that comes from heading out into the Atlantic alone [...]

I almost didn’t write a post today, what with the world ending.  It’s not often that we have an apocalyptic doomsday, after all. That said, I think the chances of you receiving this message are dicey, so … please contact me if you didn’t receive this message.  Note: I received a customer letter the other [...]

  Quite some years ago my friend Lisana Maria from Venezuela was always sharing her latest observations of American life with me.  One night as we were going out to dinner was no exception. Walking to the car from her Miami apartment I pointed to a field nearby and said, “I see you have a [...]

Our third cartoon on the NeanderTrees gives rise to a burning question.  Should they be called the NeanderTrees or the NeanderChips? Please send me  your opinion on this momentous decision.  Just click the title of this post and and scoll down to the comments area. Thanks and have a nice day – J. Daniel

The inspiration for this week’s cartoon is of course Stonehenge (click here for a picture of Stonehenge). I visited Stonehenge in the mid-70’s during my time in England.  It is a magnificent monument located in the English county of Wiltshire.  If you ever have the opportunity to visit it, by all means do so. I [...]

Maria Shriver, an American Journalist, Kennedy family author and former wife of former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, has a great line to describe her diet.  She says she basically, “shuts her mouth.”  That’s pretty crisp and to the point, wouldn’t you say? From this and other clues, we can intuit she uses some form of [...]