Yes, I have just this week found what I think is this American country’s most toxic word. Actually, the word is the name of a song! It is also the name of a movie! The hate is palatable, out there. A near knee-jerk reaction occurs when many people, hear the…

Oh, the Memory! Even if one lives in a drought area, if it does rain, the skies seem to Remember then it rains and rains and rains! For days, for weeks. Here is a made-up story about a man who was at first cursed by memory, then this Memory later…

Will the classical liberal 1950s, and 1960s education, ever return? I recently read an opinion editorial in a Florida city paper. His subject was the classical liberal education. This writer is a retired university counselor, of some type. He first off praised this classical education. However, he then went into…

Blackness. By the side of the road, deep in Southern Appalachia. A country store on the left with a dirt parking lot to its right. The paved road goes onwards to the right. One day I walked to this store and I saw the Blackness. There was a patch of…

Once upon a time, I believed in what I now call the “Great Triangle”. Imagine, you all, a triangle with words at each of the three corners. The left corner is “family”. The right corner has “culture”. At the top is “a higher power”. Many of my recent articles lament…

I have recently heard about some strange news. I find this new reality *Very* disturbing! According to Fox News… ======= “The U.S. Senate will no longer enforce a dress code for members of the upper house elected by those they serve. The change allows Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., to continue…

A cartoon I made up!

A thunderstorm all right! A small thunderstorm in my head! Discombobulation resulted! Such a small thing. Here I was, sitting with someone and I was going to tell him about my last night’s adventures of my going down the Internet rabbit hole. You know…you begin to google how to raise…

The Tomato. looked SO enticing there in the fridge. Really red and juicy. Blah. Dadgummit. No taste at all. Looked a bit unripe on the inside. Was juicy. Bland; only a memory of what I grew up with. Used to be that even in stores the fruits were fairly ripe…