ONE OF THOSE DAYS What do I need? First of all, to explain, I am feeling my age and today is one of depressing thoughts and grim outlooks. So, I have reverted to playing with the macabre. A defense mechanism no doubt. Just the same it works and if it works, use it. Here is … More I Need…
Which (the title) has very little to do with anything I want to discuss today. It just sounds profound to utter things like this. “With each new solution, one can expect a new set of problems”. “Every solution creates its own problems”. Did you know that the developer of the first freeway knew from the … More Every New Solution has a New Set of Problems.
Goodbye Notes Part Five Here’s to that New York City cop with the red hair and the huge feet. You must have been over 6 feet tall, you goon. During the 70’s activism phase of my life when I marched to shut down nukes. It was 1979 to be precise. Millions of people were upset … More Goodbye Notes Part Cinco
All Over Again Seventy years ago, Buddy was standing on his tip-toes to look at his eyes in the bathroom mirror on the second floor of his parents’ huge house. Eleven rooms with seven bedrooms. Nine-year-old Buddy stretching himself tall with an assist by pressing his palms down on the rim of the ceramic sink … More All Over Again
GOODBYE NOTES Part Cuatro To the teenage boy in Ensenada, Baja Mexico in 1977. I’ll tell you man, you got me good. I admire an expert in anything and what you did to me was top-drawer-slick. We were standing across the street from one of those curios shops and you were selling serapes. I … More Goodbyes, Part Cuatro.
Playing Fair and Being Kind 