Posts in category Lifestyle

1968 Inasmuch as Monday was Martin Luther King day, I harked back to 1968, the year of Dr. King’s assassination. I was a young impressionable …

STORYWORTH By Fred C. Klein What was the very best Holiday present you received last year? No question, mine was from granddaughter Maggie Klein.  It …

LIVE RIGHT By Fred C. Klein On New Year’s Day I decided I would make New Year’s resolutions. Having reached that conclusion I then pondered …

Santa By Fred C. Klein I always believed in Santa Claus.   Still do! Tonight we continue our Family tradition of decorating our hearth with Santas …

SHOWERS Showers require water, lots of water and water is our most taken for granted Natural Resource. So much so, that when I take a …

Adjusting? Last week I blogged about (and in favor of year round) Daylight Saving Time and this week’s is about the difficulty adjusting to the …

Day Light Saving Time By Fred C. Klein The expression goes: All good things must come to an end.  But do they? Honestly, who doesn’t …

Joanne’s a Fan By Fred C. Klein My wife Joanne is an artist with different tastes and talents than me who during the arc of …

IT IS NEVER FOR THE MONEY By Fred C. Klein Recently, when I was in France to witness the start of the around the world …

The Talisman By Fred C. Klein A Talisman is defined as an object, typically an inscribed ring or stone, that is thought to have magic …

Exquisite Corpse By Fred C. Klein On Monday granddaughter Ruby visited and after a delicious bar pie lunch at Eddie’s Joanne led us through an …

Why Pay? By Fred C. Klein How much do you pay for your telephone phone bill? Forget about throwback landlines, just your cell phone service …

Our Guy By Fred C. Klein We have a good friend, Guy deBoer, who is a genuine throwback to the bygone Explorers. We admire our …

Who Says I Can’t Keep a Secret? By Fred C. Klein The answer is me! For most of my life I was all too willing …

COVID 22 By Fred C. Klein I tested positive for COVID less than 2 weeks ago. Since the inception of the COVID 19 Pandemic I had …

COMFORTABLY LAZY By Fred C. Klein It seems to me that we are becoming comfortably lazy.  An example of which is that many now insist …

Smile By Fred C. Klein Last Sunday we pulled into a restaurant near closing time for a late supper and I noticed an extraordinary thing. …

LUCKY SHORTS By Fred C. Klein Last week I blogged about superstition and negative Jinxes.  This week is the flip side: superstition and good luck …

Jinx There are thoughts I think which I would never say out loud for fear of Bad Luck or jinxing myself. Where does superstition and …

Reiley McDonald BY MAGGIE OLIVE KLEIN KONKLIFE WRITER AND EDITOR Reiley McDonald, an assistant girls lacrosse coach here in Key West, grew up in a …