A couple of months back I was searching through box after box for my dad’s military records. At one point I had them all in one place – unfortunately life happened and now they are either scattered amid various file boxes or simply lost, existing no more. The reason I was looking for these records…

If it wasn’t for the fact that he was alive, there would be nothing remarkable about Sid Fieldman. By any other standard, he would be considered a medical miracle and both a scientific and technological success but it was the year 2081 – so very little was remarkable any more. At 121 years of age,…

Once again I had a night-terror (NT) and once again I was in a fight for my life. This one though was far different from any other I’ve had. This NT included petrified corpses in uniform stuck in the branches of trees that I had to run by and beneath to escape whatever was chasing…

To claim I was a well-behaved child would be a lie. I was more like Huck Finn to Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer, if anything. During my high school years, I skipped classes so much that I nearly failed to graduate. Only twice did I ever skip school though by staying home and pretending to catch…

The other night I was watching a TV crime drama when they showed the suspect using an actual fully enclosed telephone booth. The sight of it seemed so quaint to the reality of today. Recently I learned that while telephone booths are few and far between, an artist is using them in New York City…

Sleep doesn’t come Light goes off Brain comes on. Thoughts rush me Stampede unending Why the unquiet? Never an answer Ignored by flood That scatters’ me. Remaining in bed Recalling the day Tamale too many.

There are days, even weeks where I don’t write a single word worth public consumption. Then there are hours within a day that I can’t turn the spigot off and I write several pieces that I believe are all worth being read. On the day’s I claim not to write — I really do —…

Drama – it probably means something else to you than it does for me; to wit: you might think of a stage play as I think too much emotional bullshit. As I’ve grown older, I have learned to avoid what I think of as drama. When I was younger, not so much, but they say…

We have the makings of another scorcher in Spanish Springs, Nevada, today. It’s not even noon and it’s already nearing 100-degrees in the shade of my front porch. That means it isn’t a good day to leave your pets locked outside without shade or plenty of water. Further, it’s not a day to leave them…

In between working to revamp my blog with a new name and new look, I’ve already run into Reno so Kyle could apply for his old job and to pick up some of his things from storage. I tried to help him but the first crate I lifted tossed my back out. Right now, he’s…