• California Governor Newsom’s plan for all new vehicle’s to be ‘electric only’ by 2035 gives fresh meaning to ‘rolling black out.’

  • While looking for her mute button, I managed to push all of my wife’s buttons.

  • Spin: Mary-chick

    Thursday morning and he sat on the bench at the very far end of the park. It was here that he came to pray each morning. A young woman, dressed in all black and with her sweat-shirt’s hood pulled over her head, sat down at the opposite end of the bench. After a few minutes…

  • I don’t like to plan things to do for the day, because eventually ‘premeditated’ gets tossed about in the courtroom.

  • The Red Button

    He stepped inside, closing the front door behind him. She could see he had another one of his stupid grins on his face. “Where’s the stuff I sent you to the grocery store for?” she asked. He toed the floor and said, “I didn’t get it.” “Why?” “I ran into this old woman who sold…

  • Bob Harrison, 1948-2020

    As I sat at the breakfast table, sipping my morning’s coffee, I opened the Facebook app on my cellphone. My heart dropped and shattered at reading the post from his sister, that her brother Bobby had died. And while I ought to wait a couple of days to write this, I sorely need to get…

  • Pessimist: “The glass is half-empty.” Optimist: “The glass is half-full.” 2020: “I pee’d in the glass.”

  • The Beauty of a Driveway

    The high pitch of a child’s laughter, a scream and multiple voices, followed by fleeting shadows darting between the slats of the blind and from in the front of the house, told much of the tale. The clear skies and sun of a Saturday morning had brought the neighborhood kids out of their homes. “Are…

  • Today is day 187 of our state’s shutdown and it’s been murder since day one.

  • Lizzy Warren took an axe and gave her career forty whacks. When she’d seen what she’d done, Kamala Harris gave hers forty-one.