My Snarky Resolutions for the Coming Year: I vow to not believe the hype or false praise Many of us make grand, aspirational resolutions for the new year. We aim to find a new purpose, road and ideal. We vow to lose weight or stop eating too […]
My throwback Thursday Wish: Tell me a story Storytelling these days appears to be a lost art form. Sure, there are many platforms on which people can write out their stories and day to day life moments. However, stories are often told in sound bites now and with […]
The Kids are Alright but don’t let them fart in school or play with hand sanitizer: This week’s wacky news We are at the midpoint of January. We are now truly taken on 2015. What shall it bring? We all watched the news items where the local […]
The Big Ketchup Conspiracy “I’m not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco sauce, some ketchup, some mayonnaise. I love all of that. Put it on a trumpet. I’ve just got to […]
And then there were four: Sunshine and gray skies in Appalachia How happy am I? I’m ecstatic. I’m no “Debbie Downer” this bright (icy) Monday morning. I do not typically like musicals but I feel like singing in the rain today. That is how much of a Debbie […]
Thinking of Holden Caufield while in West Virginia For once in a really long while, I had the opportunity to not think about work. Work stayed clearly out of my consciousness other than the fact that I thought about how I wasn’t thinking about it. For this long […]
SERENITY: Caress the cold fragility Ice can be just as mesmerizing as a fire. Watching icicles melt establishes within the jaded cockles of the heart a sense of the inevitable. The ice holds its shape as long as the weather bears it. Then a hushed warm air comes […]
Increasing my brain capacity so that silly research projects no longer need to be funded I have been on many plane rides recently and I never sleep. Thus, I watch a lot of movies and television shows on my flights. I never go to the movie theatres anymore […]
Throwback Thursday Haiku: To look back one must learn Today I seek AWE The REAR view is for learning But MIND the future
It’s always about the Ducks One of my favorite books of my childhood was “Catcher in the Rye” . I found many ways to relate to Holden from identifying phonies to being mesmerized by the symbolism of ducks. On page 83, he noted “He turned all the way […]