With thanks to Shel Silverstein for the final line
Someone who wants to bestow a name… must typically be its creator or the one who purchased or discovere… The United States has done none o… as pertaining to an enormous body…
How shall I remember 2023, this fifty-sixth year of my life? Hopefully not the worst of the bun… but it did have some measure of st… My catalytic converter was stolen
Friday the 13th Is it a day for bad luck? We’ll know soon enough!
COVID’s still with us Despite its "19" title It’s not yet passe
Whenever I hear that someone has… the first thing—and often the only… I want to know is how old they wer… Someone older comforts me because I feel like I still have some tim…
As I understand it, here’s what a… First, select the best words for s… Then bind them together with an ir… Tweak them as needed, to make the… And turn them loose, so the world…
The highway of life winds on and on and on. We all make our way forward, sidew… and even backwards, sometimes. Yet we keep rolling along
We have come to equate “fortune” w… as in “that outfit must have cost… but its real meaning is more abstr… Whenever the Roman goddess Fortun… it meant that things went well for…
“Obrigado” is All the Portuguese I know But it is enough. I might never come back here But I’ll sure jump at the chance.
There is a great Czar of the Snow Alongside a Lady of Glencoe They share poems and verse Whether lengthy or terse Over Zoom is their method of flow…
What sounded like all the fireworks on earth over the holiday weekend couldn’t assuage my dread at the memory of
What 18 year-old, still only a kid himself, walks into an elementary school and starts firing? Columbine, Sandy Hook,
All war is a crime Since it ends some lives and upends so many others. Starting a war as Putin has done
One two three four five six seven Everybody goes to heaven That’s not true but still I said… Live your life and don’t regret it…
Thanks, Bob, for making us laugh In your calm and cerebral fashion. Other performers would shout and c… But you had a different way to cas… Comedy albums are a thing of the p…