They say that age is just a number, so I suppose churning out my thousandth column with this writing might be comparable to a yawn, wry smile or the lame joke about the needle’s question to the thread in a nudist colony - “Sew what?”To persons cracking wise, please remember that puppy love is real to the puppy. So are my genuine efforts to wring a bit of humor, inspiration and/or analysis of life. Admittedly, I’ve taken side roads, far from life’s freeways that gush of doom, crime, pestilence, world hunger, wars, COVID and its derivatives, inflation and other unending ...