The Rick Umali Blog

A few weeks ago, I was at a stop light, take out food on the passenger seat. A pickup truck pulled up to my right, and the driver honked his...

It feels like forever-ago that we all first heard of COVID-19. As I posted back in March 2020 , I was a skeptic in the beginning. I reread s...

Over the weekend, I received a Thank You card from my bank. It was one of those form letters to say 'thank you for your business', b...

In 2020, I watched 48 movies (Letterboxd) and 18 books (Goodreads) . My favorite book last year was Station Eleven , by Emily St John Man...

When the company I work for closed its office for COVID , it was meant to be temporary. In March, we were told that the stay-at-home order w...

A few years ago, I requested and received The Beatles Anthology , a DVD set containing a television documentary about The Beatles that was b...

Facebook is going to cancel their notes feature, which is where some of you read these postings of mine. The 250 or so notes I have posted h...