I’m releasing this blog post on the day of my scheduled echo and stress tests. I’m hoping they find nothing abnormal, give me the proverbial clean bill of health, and that the strange sensations I’ve been experiencing are just me being hyper aware of my body, or perhaps the effects of mental stress. I’ve notContinue reading “Health Again”
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The Paperback Trade
I always walked to grade school because I lived less than two minutes away. Out the back gate, half way down the alley, turn right, down another alley for a half a block, cross the street, and enter the school. Very easy. It was a longer walk at the end of the day because weContinue reading “The Paperback Trade”
The Fragility of Health
One of my favorite and most often-quoted poems was written by Richard Brautigan and included in his beautifully-titled collection, Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork. I can’t find my copy at present so I will have to rely on my fragile memory to recall it. Please forgive any errors, and I put XX since I don’tContinue reading “The Fragility of Health”
The Fragility of Health
One of my favorite and most often-quoted poems was written by Richard Brautigan and included in his beautifully-titled collection, Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork. I can’t find my copy at present so I will have to rely on my fragile memory to recall it. Please forgive any errors, and I put XX since I don’tContinue reading “The Fragility of Health”
Heh, Heh, Heh
What will your life be like in three years? In Catholic high school, we had a couple of nun jokes. I’ll omit them here, but the punch line to one was, “All of the other nuns said, ‘Heh, heh, heh,’ and the one said, ‘[gasp!]’” Let me know in the comments if you want theContinue reading “Heh, Heh, Heh”
Caught in the Web(page)
What are your favorite websites? Do I have favorite websites? There are those places I love to hate: Facebook is one of these, and how many of us are sorry we sold our souls (and posted all those photos we probably have no other access to now) to the great and powerful Zuck? Sidebar: yes,Continue reading “Caught in the Web(page)”
Age. Learn. Repeat.
Is there an age or year of your life you would re-live? Today’s prompt asks, “Is there an age or year of your life you would re-live?” And of course, I have to reply, not by answering that, but by questioning the exact meaning of said prompt. On one hand it suggests that one wouldContinue reading “Age. Learn. Repeat.”
Forget History?
What historical event fascinates you the most? I’m sitting here with my bowl of breakfast cereal and pondering this prompt: “What historical event fascinates you the most?” I’m not sure, as I mentally fast-forward through the timeline of history, that I can pick out just one, the most fascinating, event. Now, it’s not that I’mContinue reading “Forget History?”
If It Bleeds, It Leads
Lately I’ve been reflecting on the old news rule: “If it bleeds, it leads.” Any story, no matter how interest-worthy, always takes a backseat to another item containing [more] death, carnage, and blood. For a long time, news of the Ukraine war dominated the news. Then we’d see nothing about it when a mass shootingContinue reading “If It Bleeds, It Leads”
Oohhhh, Quantum Me!
In searching my brain for a title for this likely odd post, a song came to mind that has nothing whatsoever to do with the topic. But read the title again, with the repeated line of this song in mind: The first night on my UK trip I had a dream that echoes the firstContinue reading “Oohhhh, Quantum Me!”
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