Category: Others

The little building, only four dwellings high, five wide, with iridescent numbers affixed to the locked doors are like many of the neighborhoods across the globe. It’s a tiny community filled with gossip, local irrelevant interests, and occasionally celebratory greetings. Sometimes, there’s a note of encouragement that passes through one of the doors. Other times, […]

In 1969, everybody was a star. Sly and the Family Stone. Three years later, everybody played the fool. The Main Ingredient. Playing the fool is a rule with no exceptions, they said. And added, they weren’t lyin. Both songs are about love. Lots of those around in the 60’s and 70’s. More of the lyrics […]

It’s Monday again. It’s supposed to come around every long week but sneaks up on you every seven days.  It has nothing going for it. The beginning of the workweek for insane lottery ticket buyers who won’t quit their jobs if they win that half billion dollar jackpot. And for the semi-sane lottery ticket buyers who […]

Google anything in images and the bizarre and unrelated will appear somewhere on the page. Like a tee-shirt espousing a person’s stand on a controversial subject. The gist of which was “I did this so you, being sanctimonious, can continue to do that.” A pot calling a kettle black made even more amusing by the […]

The horizon has a soft yellow glow that reminds me of my first time at a planetarium. The fake sky dome transformed from a soft glow to an amazing starry blue-black sky in minutes. The neighbor’s palm trees need trimming. The lower branches have lost their green and are sadly drooping. Age caught up with them. […]

We had a stray visitor this morning.  Not the first time.  We have a big fluffy calico who wanders around now and then.  The first time I saw her, she was traipsing around on the half column outside and knocked out one of the bricks.  It spooked the both of us.  She confuses our front patch of lawn for a […]

I once heard Jay Leno describe his grandmother as a Sherman tank model, as opposed to the grandmothers in L.A., who were skinny, petite older women with skimpy outfits and names like Bambi. Ma was of that Sherman tank build. She had a hardened appearance and a heart of gold. The weight of the world […]

Everyone hung out at Maureen’s. She was a sweet woman, petite, in her twenties, and a divorcee with two adorable kids. We’d sit in the kitchen sipping cups of tea. She always had tea. Maureen did not allow any drinking or drugs, although if you had already imbibed, you were welcome in her home. She […]

Once upon a time, we were gifted a weekend in the Poconos – meals included. To our surprise and the surprise of four other couples, we shared an assigned table. I only remember two of the couples. A tall, slender, well-groomed, newly married, quiet couple. Their hands were often entwined, as I’m sure were their […]

THAT IS THE QUESTION Watching old movies or old tv shows and spotting a toupee used to amuse me. I wondered why men preferred that look, or the combover, to their perfectly charming receding hairlines. I did get it. If I was a man, I’d want to hold on to a full head of stunning, […]