Our guest postponed for a week — family obligations and grandchildren. But Garry and Tom were in fine fettle. This time, I turned off the clocks the night before so I wouldn’t forget. We had to put the Duke outside… Read More ›
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OLD LIFE, NEW YEAR
It’s a very new year, but it’s already day five. I have a feeling if I don’t grab hold of it, it will slide away before I am fully “in” it. Garry’s had a difficult week, losing one friend (reason… Read More ›
NAMES CAN NEVER HURT YOU – GARRY ARMSTRONG
A while back, Marilyn wrote a piece using the word chutzpah. This is a word I’ve always badly mangled when I try to say it. It’s just a word, what the heck? That was my take for many years until… Read More ›
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? – BY TOM CURLEY
This was the cover of the March 5th, 2017 “New York Daily News.” It wasn’t newsworthy when it became the cover of the Daily News. Everyone knew our ”Commander In Chief“ was nuts and most of us had known it… Read More ›
STICKS AND STONES by Garry Armstrong
A while back, Marilyn wrote a piece using the word chutzpah. This is a word I’ve badly mangled when I try to say it. It’s just a word, what the heck? That was my take for many years until Robin… Read More ›
NEWS AS ENTERTAINMENT – BY ELLIN CURLEY
Something tragic happened to America’s news media in the early 1980’s. Before then, the news divisions of the major television networks were not expected to make money. They were considered to be a public service designed to give people the… Read More ›
2018 – ANOTHER SEPTEMBER SONG – Garry Armstrong
I’ ve asked old acquaintance, Walter Houston, once again, to lead us with his melancholy vocal of “September Song” to set the mood. September is a bittersweet month for many of us. For the young, it’s the end of summer, … Read More ›
FACEBOOK – THEN, NOW AND SOME KIND OF FUTURE
The first time I accessed Facebook was early 2011, a year before the 2012 Presidential election went into a full-tilt boogie. I had never been on a social media site though I’d heard of MySpace. My impression was it was where 12-year-olds… Read More ›
THANKS FOR THE ANGST – ELLIN CURLEY
Scientific studies now exist that defend Stress as something good which we need to extend Our productive lives, as we get on in years. So perhaps we should fuel, not conquer our fears And dwell on what is scary in… Read More ›
WORDS CAN NEVER HURT YOU – GARRY ARMSTRONG
A while back, Marilyn wrote a piece using the word chutzpah. This is a word I’ve always badly mangled when I try to say it. It’s just a word, what the heck? That was my take for many years until… Read More ›
ROOM FOR REALITY
I’m not thrilled with news. Any news. I can’t abide right-wing lies based on the opposite of what happened, especially when they are talking about things through which I lived and which I’ve seen. For shear blatant not-even-a-hint-of truth lying,… Read More ›
NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS – RICH PASCHALL
Avoiding Stress, by Rich Paschall Recently I attended a talk at work regarding avoiding stress. We are in a deadline driven business and there can be a good deal of stress, so a talk on dealing with and reducing stress… Read More ›
UNHINGED, UNFIT, AND UNBELIEVABLE – BY TOM CURLEY
I’ve learned to write thoughts down when I have them these days. Mostly because I’ll forget those thoughts ten seconds after I have them. Unless I’m really stoned. Then I forget them about three and half seconds after I have… Read More ›
NORMAL, NORMALIZING AND NORMALIZING NUTS – BY TOM CURLEY
Well, it’s been quite a week — don’t we say that every week? — and the words “unhinged” and “unprecedented” have been used even more than they were the week before. And the week before that. And the week before… Read More ›
KNOTS, PRETZELS, AND THE PRESS REDUX – TOM CURLEY
It’s been fun since the election watching the right-wing press, mostly lead by Fox News, bend themselves into evermore twisty and convoluted pretzels as they try to explain the latest gaffe/scandal/complete act of idiocy coming out of the White House…. Read More ›
BUT WORDS CAN NEVER HURT YOU … BY GARRY ARMSTRONG
Marilyn recently wrote a piece using the word chutzpah which I’ve always badly mangled in pronunciation. It’s a word, what the heck? That was my take for many years until Robin Williams and Billy Crystal gave me a proper public… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 