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Flash Fiction: Do You Believe In Love?
This week’s Flash Fiction Challenge starts with a song title. We were to pick a random song title (from our iTunes or Apple Music or iHeart or Pandora or Spotify or by taking the entrails of an albino...
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Too Much World News
I’ve always been one who wanted to keep abreast of the news, even when that meant the evening news with Huntley and Brinkley and the Chicago Tribune. Or the Springfield Times-Reporter and John...
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By Their Bumper Stickers Shall You Know Them
I don’t think it’s ever a good thing to judge total strangers based on a first impression or some potentially superficial facet of their persona. But I’ll make an exception for bumper stickers. If...
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Groundless Faith vs Depressing Reality
Having been raised Catholic, complete with six years of nuns in full “penguin” regalia teaching Catholic school, I’m familiar with the concept of faith. Having rejected Catholicism and all other...
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No Context For You – January 08th
I did not come down with a cold – yet. Or the flu, which has rampaged through our small office – yet. Thought #1 re: that – Let’s assume my guardian angel is doing a good job of prioritizing and...
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No Context For You – January 17th
Thought #1 re: everything – as we all know, “Don’t think! You can only hurt the team.” Thought #2 re: Thought #1 – “What’s the team done for me recently?” Thought #3 re: Thought #2 – “Yes! I hear...
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No Context For You – January 24th
Perception. It’s a funny thing. I liked this picture on the phone, but couldn’t figure out to save my life what the snippet of writing was or any of the other forms. Maybe that’s why I liked it so...
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Cloudy Days
If you have a clear Western horizon with minimal clouds over the next few days, take a look just a few minutes to a half hour or 45 minutes after sunset. You’ll see the crescent moon, a little bigger...
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We just got home from the family Passover Seder which, as a “recovering Catholic” especially, I find wonderful and thought provoking and fantastic. It’s late. It’s been a long day. It’s been a long...
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Unclear On The Concept
There are a fair number of things that push my buttons these days, and I seem to have a lot of buttons. I’m trying to “maintain an even strain,” particularly here (mainly because I fear that once I let...
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