Summertime is finally here and along with it a long list of things to do as well. Well, okay, summer isn’t technically here yet. But all the signs point to it. The sun is shining longer in the sky and the temperature has risen to sweat inducing levels (this is particularly welcome in my part
My dear friend Michael Daly retired from teaching today. A rather large amount of people gathered in a ballroom to celebrate his career and the man. He mingled the crowd as we sipped our cocktails and nibbled the h'orderves. There were handshakes and pats on the back and hugs. It was a quiet and sedate
2016 was not a good year. I could mention the abundance of celebrity deaths or the uncivil election or the discouraging decisions in Europe as the reasons for the awfulness of the year. Or on a smaller scale there were financial issues, work related shakeups and arguments I don’t care to mention. And yes, these
Tell me if you’ve heard this before: These kids today are spoiled and lazy. The expect everything to be handed to them on a platter. They don’t know the value of a dollar, and they don’t want to work hard. And could they pull their heads away from a screen for just a few minutes?
It is the last day of vacation and I am full of conflicting emotions. The first is relief. Everyone is exhausted, sunburnt, the money is gone; it feels like it is time to return home, to the normal routine, to Real Life. The flip side to that is sadness because I have to return home,
Oliver Sacks, the author of numerous books and essays including Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, is dying. Sacks, now 81, has cancer. He he has multiple metastases in the liver and the progress cannot be halted. He is going to die very soon. In response to this Sacks has
Howdy Pardners! I figured it’s about time to rustle up another of them there Website Roundups. Recon you cowpokes wanna know what’s happenin’ in these parts and I aims to please. Yee haw! Yeah that was dumb. As I recall the last time I did this I promised to never again slip into a faux
Wow, it seems like a long time between posts doesn't it? That's because, well, it has been a long time between posts. I took an impromptu and unplanned hiatus from the blog for about a month. (Quick note: impromptu and unplanned mean the same thing, I should probably delete one of those. Nah.) The reason
A friend of mine recently tagged me on Facebook to do the 10 Book Challenge. The idea is to come up with 10 books that have influenced you or inspired you or just really entertained the hell out of you, narrow it down to 10 and share. Now I usually do my best to ignore
This is from way back in 2010, a conversation between Craig Ferguson and Stephen Fry. It proves that a quiet, erudite conversation can be immensely entertaining. The bit about social media and Twitter is very insightful. Not to mention the bit where two Brits talk about the greatness of America. The things they talk about
