Birthday Bash
Happy birthday to me and Happy birthday, U.S.A. Company is slowly drifting in to help me celebrate my birthday, and it is always great fun to have some of my kids here with me. I know it is a day early for a Fourth Of July blog post, but bear with me. I plan to […]
Friday’s Odds and Ends
This may or may not be my last commentary about the political scene, but I will try my best to not rail against the candidates too often. IN RECENT NEWS The Trumster has realized he has to soften his stance on the immigration issue, as well as tone down his racist rhetoric. All that because […]
Friday’s Funnies
A FEW JOKES TO START THE WEEKEND OFF WITH A CHUCKLE OR TWO A photographer on vacation in the US was inside a church taking photographs when he noticed an old fashioned telephone mounted on the wall with a sign that read ‘$10,000 per call’. Being intrigued, he asked a priest who was strolling […]
Friday’s Odds and Ends
The Day After the Christmas Party I thought it would be nice to start off with a cute picture before getting on to the rest of the blog. Sort of bracing you for the nonsense of politics. First, something that isn’t nonsense. I took an interesting online quiz on politics at I Side With. This is […]
Friday’s Odds and Ends
What on earth is going on in Hungary? Just reading snippets of news it sounds like a revisit of Nazi Germany. This from Reuters today: Hungarian police halted a train packed with migrants bound for the Austrian border and tried to force them to disembark in a town with a detention camp on Thursday, […]
It’s What Friends Are For
Another week has flown by and here again is Slim Randles as today’s Wednesday’s Guest. This is a thoughtful piece about how folks in small communities look after each other, and I must say it is very true. My friends here in my small town have done a wonderful job looking after me for the […]
Aw Shucks, Old Age
It’s going to be a busy week heading toward Thanksgiving and I have a jillion things to do today, so I thought I would have a guest instead of my usual Monday offering. I am so thankful for the writers who share their work with us, and one of them, Roy Faubion, occasionally sends me […]
Monday Morning Musings – Old and Young
Some of my writing in recent years has focused on characters who are much older than the ones I usually write about. While I was taking my morning walk today, I started wondering why that might be and I realized that it is probably because I am closer to those ages than I am to […]
Growing Older
Yikes. I did it. I applied for Social Security. Wasn’t it just last year that I helped my mother do that? Where have the last twenty years gone? Getting older has never really bothered me. Some people obsess about turning forty, or fifty, or even sixty, and I can laugh at the “mourning” parties with […]
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Friday’s Odds And Ends
These pretty yellow flowers have survived the past few weeks of intermittent freezing temperatures here in East Texas, and I enjoy the bright splash of color against the gray of the tree. I also admire their resilience. After hearing how cold it is in some northern states, I will never complain about the cold here […]
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