Every day — let me admit this right up front — I punch up CNN on my phone or slide over to it on my browser and look, with wild-eyed hope, for something millions of us are practically praying to see. We don’t wish harm upon the man, of course. We don’t want him dead.… Read More A small wish
Seems like once upon a time ago I was where I was supposed to be My vision was true and my heart was too There was no end to what I could dream I walked like a hero into the setting sun Everyone called out my name Death to me was just a mystery I… Read More Lyrical: John Mellencamp
The damn thing just blew up. Mere hours after my last post went live … the damn thing blew up on me. Working one second like a champ, black as its innards the next. My timing sucks. I spent more than three hours waiting at an Apple store the other day — that’s three hours… Read More Gave up the ghost writing
Maybe we all get this way with the tools of our trade. Plumbers, probably, have their favorite wrenches. Carpenters their favored hammer. Politicians … whatever politicians use on a regular basis. Probably voters. Or lies. We all have a strange attraction to the things that help us through our day, that get the work done,… Read More An unhealthy like
I wrote this a while back. It was lost in my ever-growing Drafts tab before I ever got a chance to punch Publish. It’s a little dated now, but I put in the work, so here it is … The Russian president, who is a former KGB agent and an all-around bad guy, is meeting… Read More Chilling Out in an Unchill World
Professional athletes, with whom I have a fleeting familiarity, sometimes say stupid-ass things. Once in a while they’re trying to be funny and fall embarrassingly flat. More often, they’re blithely aiming for intelligent and thoughtful, and instead land on stupid-ass and shallow. Now they may be tired, or annoyed, or mad, which might explain their… Read More Quote unquote
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