Excuse me for a moment while I find my ‘thick-skinned? suit which comes complete with knuckle dragging sleeves and gloves. Z-i-i-p-p! There, it’s on. And since I am at it, I might as well don my protruding eye-browed Neanderthal headgear. Ah, fits perfectly. Now that I am sufficiently protected from the slings and arrows that […]
I know I have lived a sheltered life. I grew up in the area, after college I got a job in the area and now my family lives in the area. I haven’t been on foreign shores (unless, of course, you count Canada as foreign). I know I work in the media and see a […]
By the dawn’s early light, and much of the time before, I am hearing lots of rockets exploding. It’s Thursday, June 29 (10:31 p.m., if you must know the exact time). Americans all over the fruited plains are celebrating their heritage, their birthrights as the sole harbingers of all that is right and good with […]
Notes from the war front. My battle with the Scalopus Aquaticus (the common Eastern Mole) has taken a decidedly dicey turn. I have taken to walking in my yard, near the veggie garden, barefooted. When I feel the hard, clay earth beneath me give, I smash my heel in as far as I can. I […]
Now that Father’s Day 2006 is officially over, passed on, moved beyond and successfully relegated to the annals of history, I want to give all the ladies (and their children) out there something to think about. I’m telling you this now, so you can mull it over (and over and over into ad nauseam) for […]
Rabbits, they say, taste like chicken when you eat ’em. I can honesty say I don’t remember. I had rabbit when I was still young enough to be under double-digits old. I remember Grandma McDonald fried one up; I remember the small bones; the greasiness, but not what it tasted like. Last week, I mourned […]
Being a parent (and a darned good one, if I don’t say so myself) I used to spend a lot of time reading to the boys. Now that they are all grown up (ages eight and six, respectively) and read on their own, I can longingly only look back to those father/son times . . […]
I know Memorial Day has passed. And, I am sure all of you at least gave a moment of silence for those men and women who sacrificed their lives in support of this country. But, we still have men and women in harms way. Whatever your feelings for the politicians who sent our forces overseas […]
I know a number of law enforcement types. I can attest, they take their job seriously and wish to make a positive impact on the communities they serve. That said, isn’t their a better use of public funds (be they federal, state, county or local) than setting up two weeks worth of safety zones to […]
Moles: In recent weeks, I have whined (rather unmanly like) about their existence on/in the property I pay taxes for . . . if they want to reside on said parcel, they ought to share the tax burden. Without rehashing by moleophobic tendencies, last week I wrote (in part): Every Oct. 23, from 6:02 a.m. […]