I guess Vanna White will remain on ‘Wheel Of Fortune”, but Pat Sajak has retired.

He was a part of all our lives for 41 years and “8,000 spins.”

It seemed like he would go on for all ours and our kid’s lives.

Well, we must always remember that everything must end.

We are living in and will continue to live in a changing world.

We will always be saying, “hello” to something new and “goodbye” to something old.

Pat remained true to the premise that WHEEL is just a game.

There would be no politics (Thank God) or other distractions.

It is JUST A GAME!

My brother and I were avid sailors at a young age.

A friend of mine lived in a lakefront house and he had a small sailboat in a creek that ran through his yard to the lake.

Everyone knows a sailboat needs wind to be able to move.

The stronger the wind, the faster the sailboat could go.

We would listen for “small craft warnings” on the radio.

We would jump in the car and head to my friend’s house and his sailboat.

The wind and waves were always strong during “small craft warnings.”

A sailing we would go!

We had one problem.

The old wooden sailboat had a hole in the bottom.

Water was coming into the boat fast.

Our solution was A BUCKET!

One of us would SAIL and the other would BAIL!

When the bailing guy got tired, we switched.

We always made it safely back to that little creek and had the adventure of our lives!

When I told this story to my wife this morning, she asked “Why didn’t you patch the hole?”

I replied, “It never occurred to us.”

(Please don’t forget today is the 80th anniversary of D-DAY, June 6,1944. Be grateful.)

We were sailing home from the 2005 Mackinac Race.

Yacht racing WAS definitely my FAVORITE pastime!

Now one of my favorite activities is sharing brief notes about the world we live in.

Five years of writing daily blogs!

I really enjoy writing and hope you like it too.

Of course, my purpose is to give you a one minute read you might find helpful.

It is my daily attempt to make a positive difference in your life!

You can find it on Word Press, LinkedIn, Facebook or key in ifnottodaywhen.blog on your cell.

Thanks for your support!

Feedback or topics? Email them to: tomervin50@gmail.com

If not, you haven’t lived!

Yes, we have gone to the birds.

And we’re happy to be doing so.

Every morning she flies up to the feeder we have hanging just outside our kitchen window.

Believe it or not the favorite food of a Baltimore Oriole is GRAPE JELLY!

The feeder is built just to attract that bird.

There is a little dish on it just for the jelly.

One of these days I am going to ask the bird if it would like peanut butter too.

The very best way to start your day is with a visit from a Baltimore Oriole!

Try it. You’ll like it!

I’ve always been a risk taker.

My angel (my wife) is a detail, careful planning person.

So, I guess opposites DO ATTRACT!

As an example, we wanted to invite our parish priest for dinner.

In order to remember, I wrote the name of our church on a paper plate last night.

This morning, some angel had written the priest’s name, phone number and hours the parish is available for phone calls.

That’s a simple example of HER picking up the pieces.

There have been many more examples of greater gravity.

That’s one of the reasons why she is and has always been MY ANGEL!

I hope you also have an angel in your life!

US President Joe Biden congratulated Claudia Sheinbaum on her historic presidential win as Mexico’s first woman to lead the country’s government.

“I look forward to working closely with President-elect Sheinbaum in the spirit of partnership and friendship that reflects the enduring bonds between our two countries,”

He said in a statement Monday. 

“I expressed our commitment to advancing the values and interests of both our nations to the benefit of our peoples.” (CNN)

The world is “a changin!”

I happen to be in favor of women in leadership.

Why?

They don’t suffer from the male ego.

I remember Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Isreal.

I remember Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the U.K.

They were something!

Dan Campbell, head coach of the Detroit Lions, does BOTH!

Yes he does, and that’s why everybody wants to play for him or coach with him.

In a recent Detroit Free Press evaluation by the Lions players he was rated A+!

Leadership is not complicated.

People will follow you if you practice those two endearing qualities.

Nobody likes an egomaniac.

No, they are attracted to people who are genuine.

Genuine people practice what they preach.

As I said before, leadership IS NOT COMPLICATED!

Try it! You and your friends and family will like it!

If not today, when?

Unconcerned for their own safety, two fishermen came to the rescue of two drowning brown bear cubs that were left behind by their mother.

The cubs had attempted to cross Lake Vygozero in the Republic of Karelia in the northwestern part of Russia.

“They had swum [across the lake] with their mother, but she overestimated her strength and swam away,” Ruslan Lukanin told the Daily Mail.

“The cubs began to sink. We picked them up and dragged them to the island to which their mother had swum.

“It was dangerous, of course.

But they are living creatures.

We couldn’t just look the other way.”

Lukanin shared a video of part of the rescue, which was posted by the Daily Mail:

This cemetery is located above Omaha Beach in Normandy, France.

These crosses mark the graves of all the young Americans who fought and died for the liberation of France.

I knew one of the young boys who was in the first wave attacking Omaha Beach on D-Day.

He was 18 years old.

His friends were dying all around him.

As he waded through the water, he was crying because he feared he would be dead too.

He was spared and came home, married his sweetheart, raised a family and had his own barber shop.

Please never forget those boys who will remain in France forever!

Having a baby is energetically much more expensive than commonly thought, according to new research.

In fact, over the course of a pregnancy, creating and carrying a little one takes 49,753 dietary calories — the equivalent of 199 Snickers candy bars each containing 250 calories, said Dr. Dustin Marshall, a coauthor of the study published May 16 in the journal Science.

For the meta-analysis, Marshall, a professor of evolutionary biology at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and a team of researchers used data from thousands of existing scientific articles to look at the energy cost of several species.

“We found that the total energy it takes to reproduce is much more substantial than previously considered.”

The bulk of the additional energy a pregnant person needs goes toward developing and carrying the fetus, Ginther added.

“Most of (the) energy that mammals put into reproduction is ‘boiled off’ as metabolic heat, only 10% ends up in the actual baby,” Marshall said in an email. “When both lactation and metabolic loads are accounted for, the baby itself represents less than 1/20th of the total reproductive investment.”

The research could make a big difference in perceptions of pregnancy needs, said Dr. Eve Feinberg, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. She was not involved in the research.

“I think this study is groundbreaking,” she said. “Any working pregnant woman could tell you the sheer level of exhaustion when you are pregnant … and how it consumes your life.”