I have no idea why. Saw a photo of Grant and it came to me. Some questions are better left unanswered.
Solar eclipse – 2017
We traveled to Princeton, KY to view the eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017. These are a few of the photos I took through my telescope. Additional photos from our outing can be found on Kate’s blog.
I’d like to explain: yes, I’m voting for Bernie Sanders
This week, I will walk into the voting booth with a handful of career politicians, one con artist, and one idealist. Truth be told, they’re all politicians. Even the guy who’s never been one before, by placing himself into the political arena, he takes on that definition. Although we might like individual politicians, or at…
Momma’s Halloween Tips
A few years ago, my friend Den and I did a podcast called The Chico Walker Show. One day in October 2010, Momma stopped by to offer some court-ordered Halloween safety tips…
Amazon Prime does not deliver
ONCE AGAIN…I have called Amazon customer service to complain about what is becoming a regular occurrence. I am a Prime member, which is supposed to guarantee delivery in two days. BUT…Amazon sends the package “UPS SurePost,” which hands the package to the Post Office, which delivers it whenever they damn well feel like it. The…
Shazbot
We are all unique. But most of us spend our lives as a cluster of dots on a graph, never entirely overlapping with anyone else, never really drifting free from the crowd. Then there are the outliers: the folks who offer beauty and fire and sadness and insanity. The flowers in the garden. They reinforce…
Scooby Doo Theme
This is what happens when DenBob and I get giddy in his back yard.
The world is snow
The world is snow. It has always been this way, and no one remembers a time when there was no snow. If all the snow were subtracted from the world, there would be nothing. Nothing but a beating heart yearning for snow. Snow is our essence. It is our fiber. It surrounds us, sustains us,…
The bottom five: the five worst Christmas songs of all time
Wonderful Christmastime, by Paul McCartney The opening synthesizer riff of “Wonderful Christmastime,” symbolic of the song’s late-‘70s production era in the same way air raid sirens are symbolic of World War II, serves as kind of an early warning signal: “change the station,” it calls out. “Change the station before Paul lets us know that…
No, thank you
A friend of mine who is also an NRA member once asked me, “If all your neighbors had guns, wouldn’t you feel safer? I laughed out loud at the thought. Everyone in my neighborhood could kill me at a distance and that’s supposed to make me feel safer? I don’t think so. Beating each other…