13 doorbells rang today thirteen flags to be folded 13 families altered At least 13 U.S. service members have been killed, including 11 Marines, a Navy Corpsman, and a soldier, in the two suicide bombing attacks outside Kabul airport Thursday, according to U.S. officials. Eighteen others were injured and have been evacuated for treatment.

“You should be more like Jesus.” “I do the best I can.” “No, you don’t.” “You mean drinking wine, calling people hypocrites, and upsetting the power-base isn’t enough?” “I give up.”

Still sore, tired from a pain-filled restless sleep, and still I’m up at the crack of ass going to work. Take that, you Millennial-pusses. That is how we old fucks roll. But I am staying away from hillsides, loose rocks, and dirt.

Coffee, three aspirins, a hot shower, and I’m still stoved up and one hurting unit. It is no surprise that I tumbled down a minor incline, bounced into a cement retaining wall, and came to rest against a steel pole cemented in place. Initially, this knocked the wind out of me.  All I could really…

Aside from waiting for my very dead cellphone to resurrect, I have been doing laundry; white clothes, towels, and a shower mat. I’ve also been indulging myself with podcasts. It started after I saw a social media post from my friend Lisa Jovicic about a podcast, where she talks about her photography business. You can…

For the past couple of weeks, I hadn’t seen my bartender friend. Her temporary replacement said she was on vacation, so I left it at that. Finally, she returned. “How was your vacation?” I asked. “Wonderful,” she answered, adding, “Oh, I have something for you.” “You shouldn’t have,” I said, secretly excited that she thought…

My Cousin Elmo says, “With all the smoke from the California fires blowing into Nevada, I’m beginning to think that black is the new green.”

Mark Twain is thought to have said, “A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing on top of it.” That attribution is unconfirmed and possibly itself a fib. Twain did say in “Roughing It,” based on his personal experience of silver mining in Virginia City, Nevada: “You could … get…

One must be this many years old before learning the viewfinder their Dad brought home long ago, warning us not to destroy, which we did, was never a viewfinder but a set of paper binoculars. We tore them up trying to figure out how to fit two slides in it. And once we had forced…

Instead of the “Mandela Effect,” it should be called “‘Pataphysics,” a  “branch of philosophy or science that examines imaginary phenomena that exist in a world beyond metaphysics; it is the science of imaginary solutions.” Thoughts?