Pimples on the Butt of Putin’s lapdog February 24, 2022 The set of matryoshka dolls my friend “Michael Glitterman” gave me when he worked for the State Department in the former Iron Curtainish state… Continue Reading
God Damn it….. An army of Tucker Carlsons…… February 24, 2022 Tonight’s early reports of locations being attacked by Russia in the Ukraine Just before I tried to hit the sack I read the first… Continue Reading
Today’s reading – the hits and the misses February 7, 2022 After a lovey and much improved night’s sleep I feel prepared to do some writing today. It helps that in recent days I finished… Continue Reading
A hard conversation about – prevagen January 7, 2022 Whenever I have plans…..PLANS…..the hardest part is facing the conversation with my better half about what no power on Earth seems to be able… Continue Reading
A photo montage of my recent month ignoring my blog January 7, 2022 We got our Christmas jigsaw puzzles out early this year before Thanksgiving. These three have just been put back in their boxes. This cartoon… Continue Reading
My today’s Reader column was a couple hundred words longer than usual December 10, 2021 Stoning the Premier Danseur. In the Summer of 1971, just shy of 21, I moved to Washington D.C. to work as an intern for… Continue Reading
Anything Goes September 17, 2021 An hour ago I got the idea for an interesting novel. This happens to me every so often five or six times a year…. Continue Reading
The Global Warming down hill spiral spirals into a new gear August 18, 2021 The criminal American stupidity over coronovirus that infuriates me is a molehill. We have had the most massive fires world wide in recent years… Continue Reading
Also before starting an iteration of my plans….. July 29, 2021 There is one unstated goal in this list. Take care of my family or at least don’t let my manias interfere with my family:… Continue Reading
Know Hope July 29, 2021 “Know hope” was for many years Andrew Sullivan’s tag line. I once again slept for too few hours and woke to spend an hour… Continue Reading
Nightmares before Christmas December 22, 2020 I turned in a column to the Reader back to back one week following the next. It was modest and a bit of a… Continue Reading
#1 12/9/2020, Socrates, Faust, Asimov December 9, 2020 #1 I got my only daily habit out of the way at 1:30 this AM when I rolled out of a sleepless state and… Continue Reading
An uncluttered life is a dull life – That’s how I roll December 2, 2020 I have been organizing fifty years of clutter. I am doing it with the intention of reviewing it for future writing projects. Its a… Continue Reading
King pus grovels in China June 20, 2020 Like Scrooge, I woke up to a Marley dragging chains and locks into my dreams tonight. I came back from a mask wearing family… Continue Reading
A “perennial” “provocateur” has second thoughts on his DNT depiction June 2, 2020 I’ve had a night to sleep on Brady Slater’s story about my candidacy. Its a good story. Its even a fair story. I already… Continue Reading
About my French, About my book May 22, 2020 I told my French pen pal “S” a week ago that I would be busy writing my campaign book and not to expect me… Continue Reading
Semi-quarantine since March 15th May 6, 2020 Claudia has only been out of the house a half dozen times since our last church service on March 15th. On that date our… Continue Reading
An analogy – The corona virus always strikes one person first when it enters a new country April 30, 2020 I’m feeling like my cat Moloch’s meow. No. This post is not about the corona virus. Its an analogy pointing out that what can… Continue Reading
No Title. Really? How did I forget that. This is about my evolving plans … April 28, 2020 It has become fairly obvious to me that I am unlikely to go to France in October to study French for 45 days come… Continue Reading
Lincoln books presidents April 22, 2020 “Lincoln books presidents” I woke up after 5 hours of sleep thinking about going to movie 2001 Space Odyssey when I was in college… Continue Reading