I kind of miss the man. I have to confess, as traumatized as I was by the last four years – and particularly the last year or so – it has been difficult this week, surfing the headlines, looking for the next sign of Armageddon and finding nothing but cautious optimism. It’s not that I dislike cautious optimism; I like […]
A long, long time ago, when I can still remember how the music used to make me smile… *** We all collectively know it as the opening lyric to an iconic, historical song, a true mile marker across our popular culture landscape: American Pie, by artist Don McLean. But if you were a Martian, only here for a short time […]
Bless me, Readers, for I have sinned. It has been – I don’t know, a very long, dark time – since my last communication. During that extended period I have used profanity almost constantly, harbored anger and vitriol in my heart and eaten enough carbohydrates to sustain a small metropolis. I have waited, in vain, for a calm to overtake […]