You Want to Bully Me?  Get in Line!  

     Look, I know some people really had it rough with bullies.  Terrible, horrible incidents which make me shudder to think or recall.  I’ve had more than my fair share of bullying,/… Read full post »

I know everyone and their mother seems to have something to say on Mother's Day.  Why should I be any different?  This one may not be what you think.  As always, this is from the heart.  Oh, and I already sent this to my mom.

For and To: My… Read full post »

     Lovely.  This piece is in direct response to FusunA’s blog post titled: Genesis.  To say it inspired me would be like saying a master chef thinks cooking is just okay as something to do.  To that extent, I attempted to write a comment on her post a… Read full post »

     I put together articles and pieces of writing fairly regularly that require me to pretty much at least have a handle on what I’m talking about.  I love to read and throughout most of my life I have been called a “sponge” when it comes to remembering the/… Read full post »

     I have been thinking lately about the changes in the world.  Not the big ones, unless you count the Computer Age.  I mean all the incremental changes that add up over time to change the way we work, live and view our every day lives in this world.  These are/… Read full post »

On Dunniteowl’s Pond

        I love watching birds.  Always have.  The different sizes and types of birds are pretty astonishing when you get right down to it.  I never cared if it was the flitting from the tiny, lea/… Read full post »

I warn you, dear reader, this missive is not for the light of heart or those who wish to gossip about the latest whatever in the news.  This is for those of you out there who believe in a better world.  Not that it's here or that we're on our way,… Read full post »

The Art of Being Glib: Confessions of a Social Chameleon 1

     Today I will be talking about how to come across as smooth, polished and artfully clever in speech and mannerisms.  Now, I don’t represent myself as the epitome of silver-tongued repartee, but I/… Read full post »

     I was just complaining to my wife on Saturday about how all these passwords are everywhere you go now.  It’s not a horrible thing.  We all want to know someone’s not impersonating us or stealing our most ultimate secrets of secrets – or worse, taki/… Read full post »

     As a young lad of six or seven, I used to think of all the cool things that I could create.  I could make things, implement ideas and change the world.  Pretty heady stuff for a 1^st grader.  Of course, I also was going to be an Astronaut, a Mad… Read full post »

A Message From God

     Dear readers, I got this email in my email Inbox late last night.  It indicated it arrived at 12:12:12 A.M. and contained a rather interesting message.  The Subject was only titled: A Few Words of Advice and the Sender was listed only as: Yo/… Read full post »

     The air was dank, full of humidity.  It felt like breathing water, it was so thick.  Three A. M. and it had to be at least 85 degrees Fahrenheit!  Did I mention the humidity?  Holy shit, I felt like I should have gills!

     I loo/… Read full post »

     When I was a kid, my older brother and I used to do all sorts of things for making some cash.  We lived in Napa, California at that time and we lived in what could only described as Ruralurbia.  It wasn’t quite being in the suburbs and it wasn’t really… Read full post »

     Yeah, I went there.  I took an opportunity to increase my viewer ship with a shameless plug of Open Salon in my title.  I'm not sorry or ashamed.  Did I mention this was a shameless plug?

     Okay, before I lose my audience:

S… Read full post »

     Many times, during political and cultural discussions regarding the status quo, business, political activity or even the charged events going on around us, you’ll hear the last words of the argument: It doesn’t matter how you feel about it or what you say, no-one&/… Read full post »

I have spoken before on the things that are wrong in the world today.  We have all sorts of things that could kill us in some fashion.  We have people and corporations, seemingly hell bent on controlling the world as it crumbles down around our heads.  Crumbling because of their selfis/… Read full post »

     I was thinking out loud this morning about Ron Paul.  We hear he’s an extreme-to-the-right Constitutionalist who believes many things that resonate with the younger crowd, with neo-conservatives who think guns and no-taxes will make our country great again.&… Read full post »

You know, we hear lots of ideas and advice about how things should be done, how finances, laws, ethics and whatever else you want to toss in there really ought to be done – instead of the way it is now.  Right behind these ideas and opinions, or right before them,/… Read full post »

     Since man first started planting crops and penning in animals to ensure a food supply, cities began to flourish and grow.  Agriculture is the single most important advance in mankind’s long climb towards civilization.  Animal husbandry, while different, today… Read full post »

I usually get up before the sun.  I do it because I like to watch the sunrise.  Sometimes it comes up, highlighting the sky with rosy gold fingers across the sky, touching the gray clouds and coloring them with sherbet colored hues of orange, rose and pink.

This i… Read full post »

Let me start by saying right away, that, from my perspective, Meritocracy is more a myth than Trickle Down or Supply Side Economics as a functional metric.

Without digging too deeply on those other issues, let me see if I can explicate what Meritocracy is supposed to be and what it… Read full post »

To those of you who read this site, OWS, Occupy and 99% should be well familiar terms, even if you hate what it stands for.  If you're part of the 01% (or really the .01%) and the very thought of OWS, Occupy or the rest of us poor sorry unwashed bastards… Read full post »

I have been listening to a wide array of “sources” talking about OWS and other Occupy Actions around the country.  I will state up front, that I am certainly part of the 99%.  I am skilled, educated, over 50 and unemployed, as well as basically unemployable in any of my trained/… Read full post »

To love and not be loved,

Is like having pen in hand and paper before you;

Blank, stark, empty white.

A void that cannot be filled.

     All the times you remember

     The efforts to please and encourage;

     The need to be loved in/… Read full post »

It was a click. I know it was.  I heard it, but no-one believes me.  They think me mad. Fools!  All of them, they shall go to their graves unbelieving and I; I will survive to record the events of their demise.

There it was again: the click of… Read full post »