Month: July 2020

  • The Kindest Cut of All

    I get bored in the bathroom.  Toilet, bathtub, linoleum; there is not a lot of variety in there. Yesterday I took the scissors and started grabbing tufts of hair atop…

  • This Park went Full Circle

    As I youngster I liked to scurry about.  Our backyard shared a fence with the high school track.  We had a big yard.  Our driveway was quiet.  The family room…

  • Coming to a Close

    When asked how I am doing these days, I tend to respond that I am, “better than most”.  Covid has not knocked on my door with the heavy hand that…

  • Hamilton: Rhyme and Reasons

    Well now I’m just like everyone Having finally seen Hamilton. So pardon my discussing a show That all of you saw five years ago. They could have done with looser…

  • Easier Said than Done

    “Man cannot tell the whole truth about himself, even if convinced that what he wrote would never be seen by others.” That quote, and all the formatted quotes here, is…

  • …And Nothing but the Tooth

    We have touched on this before.  I know they mean well, but good intentions can no longer mask the truth.  After thirty-plus years of being subjected to their ways, I…

  • Bouncing Back

    Many of us have had to find new ways to distract ourselves from the world.  You can only focus on a pandemic so long before it makes your brain explode. …

  • Four what its Worth

    I did not plan it this way. But fo(u)r the last week or so I have alternated between reading two different things: Superman comics and the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.…