PinnedMember-onlyThe Letter With Six Lawyer Names On the Return Address.Once upon a recent time… Chicago. A 30+ year old man works as a low-level CEO in some office. His wife died a few years ago in a car crash and no children came of the brief marriage. …a kind of a dead-end job. He comes back to his small…Storytelling4 min readStorytelling4 min read
PinnedMember-onlyI Have Found *the* most toxic word!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…The South4 min readThe South4 min read
PinnedMember-onlyWhen It Rains It PoursOh, 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…Storytelling3 min readStorytelling3 min read
PinnedMember-onlyI Shudder At the Possible Vanishing of the Classical Liberal EducationWill 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…Politics3 min readPolitics3 min read
PinnedMember-onlyBlackness By the Appalachian RoadBlackness. 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…This Happened To Me3 min readThis Happened To Me3 min read
3 days agoMember-onlyI Feel the Traditions of Family-culture-higher-power Are Going Away!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…Culture3 min readCulture3 min read
Sep 20Member-onlyOh *NO*! Don’t Tell Me That They Did *This*!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…Culture3 min readCulture3 min read
Aug 11Member-onlyIrony In My Brain. Discombobulation followedA 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…Accents2 min readAccents2 min read
Jul 25Member-onlyTale of the TomatoThe 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…Food2 min readFood2 min read