Jan Bono’s Blog

Being grateful for our blessings is the easy part. Being grateful for the bumps and ditches, gullies and catastrophic chasms in the road, not so much. Tomorrow will be the first Thanksgiving without Mom. A scant year ago, Mom was prodding me with her walker in my...

Thanksgiving isn’t for a few more days, yet I’ve been wearing red and green outfits for the past month of weekends. Bazaar Season is short and sweet, and as I’ve previously written, one must make hay while the sun shines. This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday I’ll be...

This particular phenomena is also know as “The Domino Effect,” “The Ripple Effect,” “The Slippery Slope,” and “That’s One Fine Mess You’ve Gotten Us Into Now, Ollie!” Ok, so maybe I made that last one up, but I think it aptly summaries the chain of events that began...

Previously, I’ve admitted in this blog that I’m a bit of a gambler. I enjoy the occasional trip to the casinos, and I spend a little time in Las Vegas or Reno every couple of years. But today I’m disclosing that my penchant for rolling the dice goes beyond the grocery...

A friend of mine posted a video on Facebook showing him using an apple peeler like the one pictured here, and I was instantly slammed by a virtual tsunami of nostalgia. When our family moved to Lynnwood, circa 1958, my father planted five apple trees and one pear tree...

On this date in 1951, “Paint Your Wagon” opened at the Shubert Theater in New York City for 289 performances. The movie came out in 1969, proving once and for all that Clint Eastwood cannot sing. In case you missed it, “Paint Your Wagon” is the story of a Michigan...