Category Archives: youth

58 and Gaining Ground on a 100

Yesterday I celebrated my 58th Birthday with my nearly 2 year-old son Fenway Smith and his lovely mother Mam Pechdee. The location was the Full Moon Bar on Jomtien Soi 12. Beer beer and more beer. Mam decided to drink a little lo khao daeng or red rice whiskey. The local medicinal alcohol medicine reacted […]

Child Management

One picture says so much and others say waterboarding. Bravo Dick Cheney. For a related article click on this URL https://www.mangozeen.com/2009/05/18/america/guilty-as-not-charged-2.htm

Brooklyn Tony ON GETTING OLDER

Brooklyn Tony was sitting on a park bench munching on one candy bar after another. After the 6th one a man on the bench across from him said, “Son, you know eating all that candy isn’t good for you. It will give you acne, rot your teeth, and make you fat.” Brooklyn Tony replied, “You […]

My Generation

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 50’s and 60s. First we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer. Then […]

When is Old Old?

Questions and Answers from an AARP Forum Q: Where can men over the age of 50 find younger, sexy women who are interested in them? A: Try a bookstore under fiction. Q: What can a man do while his wife is going through menopause? A: Keep busy. If you’re handy with tools, you can finish […]