Author Archives: BBRiley

Today I want to talk about genes. No, not the blue ones with the rivets, the ones in your DNA. We’ll save the discussion about denim for another time…even though I think my genes make it hard for me to fit into my jeans…clever, eh. Back to science. According to my deep research into theContinue reading “Genetics”

Things are starting to open up and we are all getting to escape our pandemic prisons…just a little. I was raring to go and came running out of my bunker armed with my mask, rubber gloves and hand sanitizer. I’m ready to do battle. That vicious Covid-19 is still out there, ready to pounce andContinue reading “Pandemic Binging”

Like many people during this pandemic, I am now unemployed. Well, technically I’m retired. When I announced my retirement to my boss, he talked me into  coming back as a consultant. I have been doing that now for several years but that ended this past March with the onset of this dreaded plague. If youContinue reading “Career moves”

Gimme a head with hair, long, beautiful hair, Shinin’, gleamin’ Streamin’, flaxen, waxen Thank you to Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, and James Rado for the title song from the 1960s musical “Hair.” I must confess I really love the Cowsills version of this diddy. And why, you ask, would I be devoting time to aContinue reading “Hair”

How do you know when a fad is on its way out? When said fad is condemned for being a bad influence on our children and destroying the fabric of society. A few years ago I read an article by some concerned columnist who were convinced that our future is doomed because of the popularityContinue reading “All In”