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.
Pearl clutching and other fainting couch scenarios. Here is a thread I got involved in this morning. Greater minds are circling in on solutions that I would never have dreamed of. Problem is that the solutions are not for the problem at hand. These solutions are only good for impressing each other with bullshit. There. … More Colin Kaepernick Stirs it Up. Good.
GOODBYE NOTES PART TRES To the young man, older than I by a few years at least, who picked me up on the Ohio Turnpike in 1958 while I was hitchhiking. You had a new Chevy sedan. I don’t recall the model but I do remember those flat and fat fins. I was standing on … More Goodbye Notes Part Tres
Eric wrote a nice affirmation of Nina’s writing on the cover of this book. The second part of the sentence clinches the whole together nicely. Without the second part I am troubled by the first part. Here is what I wrote while sitting outdoors with a glass of scotch one afternoon. It all came together … More Nina Olff
“I am what I am, and that’s all that I am.” ― Popeye There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. – Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, All-Too-Human “Blood is thicker than water…” -Somebody Who Didn’t Know Better GOODBYE NOTES (Part dos) To the fella I locked eyes with at … More I Write my Goodbyes Part Dos
The things are looking up at The Castle. The warmer weather and greenery freshly splashed about the Royal Grounds have increased my happiness quotient. I’ve been doing the little jobs about The Castle and attending to the Royal “Things To Do” List. This change makes for more positive change. Sort of a regenerative feedback loop. … More Salt! Mustard! Vinegar! Pepper!
Playing Fair and Being Kind 