Jan Bono’s Blog

Once upon a time, let’s call it August 18, 1980, I was trying to locate a former college friend of mine. (This was long before Google, mind you.) Deep in the recesses of my memory, I recalled that my friend was from Utah, and that his father was a pediatrician in...

Today is the day I graduated from college 38 years ago. That doesn’t seem possible, but I know it’s true, cause I was there… I know it’s also true that time waits for no man (or woman), and that my years still among the living are now less than the years I’ve lived. I...

Let’s call it “cocktail party conversation.” When I tell people I’m a writer, there are a few responses I hear over and over and over. Here’s one such statement: “Someday, I’m going to write a book.” Here’s another: “What have you written?” And a third: “Where have...

I’m willing to bet the farm that nobody, nowhere, never-ever expected to see a picture of Richard Nixon gracing my blog. Not in this lifetime! And twice that many (two times zero is still zero, right?) would be totally shocked, appalled and mortified to learn that...

I have two cats: Alvin and Simon. There will be no Theodore, as two is quite enough. Actually, two is way, way more than enough, if the second one turns out to have Simon’s rambunctious and quirky personality. Simon could be the feline poster child for ADD. Whereas...

Remember the good old days, back before we were so hopelessly dependent upon computers for the majority of our communications? … Yeah, me neither… So when my iMac, just two months out of warranty, randomly started flickering, the screen intermittently dimming for a...