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Why not make this a DIY holiday? The geezer is not suggesting you use your carpentry skills to build your grown kids an armoire or solder together a tricycle for your grandkids. For nothing or next to nothing you can: Create a storybook using family photos. Adopt a puppy from your local Animal Shelter. Print […]

No matter how tight your holiday budget is you can afford to be generous with your time. Consider helping out at one of the numerous volunteer organizations around the Bay, whether it’s serving or distributing Thanksgiving and Christmas meals or gathering toys and gifts for the less fortunate. And this year with more and more folks facing […]

Whatever happened to “tired blood”? In our television childhood the threat of being “iron poor” loomed in front of us like the specter of some day growing old. Fortunately, as we learned from watching our favorite quiz shows, there was a cure for this mystery ailment – Geritol. What nobody bothered to mention was that […]

How much do you really want to hear about your friend’s grandkids? What details about their recent colonoscopy do you need to know? Is the spike in their golf scores all that interesting? Now that you’re allowed to be a curmudgeon, I suggest you instigate a system of cut-off times. Say “ I’d love to […]

Online geezers with a serious case of nostalgia should navigate themselves to the embarrassingly named upchucky.com. Granted, the site is corny but when you dig a little into their jukebox you can blow the dust off musical treasures. While you’re searching the web entertain yourself with the likes of “Handy Man”. While tweeting listen to […]