Two Old Boomers Walked Into An Appalachian Saloon…
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So… I’ve Been Writing A Book
As Mark Twain once said, "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." I'm not aware, of course, that anyone actually suggested that...
COVID-19 & The Death Of A Furtive Way Of Life
The greatest things in life are the ones nobody else is doing.
ApoCoronalypse!
This like a gift from the Almighty Himself!
A Brief Segue
To the tune of Twin's famous quote about the exaggeration of the news of his death, let's have a little fun at the expense of the rest of the human race!
A Beached Hermit
As I write this, the temperatures outside hover in the 20s and 30s and the ground is covered with a thin layer of snow and ice.
People... Not A Big Fan
A Tricky Tricycle Caper
My birthday came and went a few weeks ago, quietly and with little fanfare as birthdays should be once you have fallen headlong into...
Bus Ride Banter
It took every fiber of my being to keep a straight face and nod sympathetically in the hope that - now that she was on a roll - she might elaborate, from a woman's perspective, on an opinion I happened to quite strongly share.
Karma & The Doctor
All that kept playing in my head was the advice he had given me at our last appointment. And it came out of me before I even realized I was thinking about saying it out loud.
A Man On A Mission
As he came into view, with his head down and not looking around at cars or other people, my neighbor approached – right on schedule – as if it was just like any other day of the week, month, or year. In that moment two truths became crystal clear to me :
1. The only thing in life that is absolute is death.
2. The best lives are those spent fighting to disprove rule # 1.
It's fair to say that change is not always pleasant or welcome in life, especially when it is forced upon us -...
