Most of us have had the experience of looking for something that we held in our hand a minute ago. Keys, glasses, pens, what have…
I stumbled upon a journal I had started and abandoned in November of 2021. It was fascinating to read what I had been so concerned…
A friend of mine is saying goodbye to their beloved dog this weekend. Anyone who has ever given their heart over to a pet knows…
By the time you are reading this, I will have turned Sixty-Effin-Seven. I don’t like the sound of that number, hence the middle two syllables….
In movies, I could care less about a car chase scene or a lengthy fist fight, just give me a good story. I’m a sucker…
“Due to absence or inertia I’m not answering the phone right now…” X. Thompson Long ago, when the world needed such things, the above quote…
It takes a certain amount of discomfort to make changes. Last week I wrote about the frog staying in the increasingly hot pot of water….
Calvin, of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes made good use of his transmogrifier — a cardboard box which had the power to transmogrify himself…
Before he died of depression in 2018, I did not know who Anthony Bourdain was. I still have not read any of his books, or…
Dear Readers, The time has come for me to take a break from this weekly missive. The breaks I’ve taken in the past were because…