Category Archives: REALITY

An e-mail conversation with a friend has me thinking about mountains and what they can offer to man.  They can be a barrier to halt or go around, or a goal or a dream one can climb to touch sky, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well golldarnit, I ain’t no country bumpkin anymore!  This morning me and Del left for work (fifty feet away) with him all decked out in American Tourister Navy Blue with camel accents and boy I can guess the envy of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Retrospection, introspection, inspection and detection… I shouldn’t cut my hair without my glasses on, and yet it came out fairly well.  Finding and employing spectacles after the fact is finding and employing guts and honesty as well to face so … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Good to be with family this holiday weekend, though down to four of us Thanksgiving Day.  But calls throughout the day from my nieces, nephew since their mom and dad were here to share the meal.  I stumbled on the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Family tradition dictates that we change our wardrobes like the curtains into summer/winter segments marking half-years of our lives. I put away the teeshirts, shorts and lightweight jackets into plastic bags and store them in a closet deep down in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

How often does it happen that next-day Thanksgiving turkey leftovers can be served to someone who has not had turkey the day before? So it was with exceptional joy that I was able to offer a place at our dinner … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Hope that most of you have eaten your way through a Thanksgiving turkey, and are planning on roast beef for Christmas dinner.  Because I’m going to tell you a sad little tale that’s almost akin to the Great Veal Revelation. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Oh yes, and if you dig deep enough, you can find more good things out of "near tragedy":  Even with a shameful 51 on a stats test, I have a 90 average so far (but there’s the black cloud of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just spent fifteen minutes forcefeeding a turkey.  It’s not unlike doing the same with a one-year-old human baby:  You either do the airplane, race car, or bumblebee (this last one’s not the best idea to teach a kid) to get … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m boiling turkey guts and fisheyes for tomorrow.  No–not together, for they’re for separate courses, don’t you see.  One to stuff the main meal, a dead bird.  And the fisheyes will be sweetened for dessert.  My stuffing is so very … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Three people sit around a meatloafed dinner table.  One man who lost his wife in summer’s sun.  Another man who thinks he hides the fear of losing his.  And between them, me. All of us together thinking thoughts of turkeys … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well, not a puppy; a six-year old Jack Russell mix that looks more like a grossly overweight Chihuahua—my neighbor’s new dog. Since she’s had Labs for the last fifteen years, she’s worried that this little guy’s size might get him … Continue reading → Continue reading →