And I aint talking about the Ronnie Milsap song, either. ) If you’re like me, there was once a time in your young life when you couldn’t wait to get older because, well, I was a fucking idiot. I say that because, along with what our young, ignorant minds imagined would be amazing, there was…
Note: I’ve been sititng on this one for a while. Truth is, I know it’s not profound, meaningful or perhaps even good. Lately my brain is in “spring” mode and there’s a whole lot to plan for coming up in the next couple of months. Anyway, enjoy it for what it is, a fluff piece…
Also known as, “The Antique Mall.” For the past twenty years or so, several times a year, I have made a trip to one of several antique malls in about a two hour radius of here. The trips began with my wife and I going to Lewisburg in Pennsylvania for a Sunday morning breakfast at…
Like so many, probably many of you reading this, I have a love/hate relationship with social media – namely Facebook. Excuse me, “Meta.” And since it’s likely that one or two of you are here thanks to a link posted on Facebook, I’ll admit to a certain level of hypocrisy right out of the gate.…
I’m completely over winter right now. Believe me, I know that I’m hardly unique when it comes to that. That doesn’t mean I’m not going to bitch about it though. I’ve often said that if I could find a place where November and December are cold and snowy, with it all melting and returning to…
This post will be a little different than what I normally put out there. First off.. As you may have read on my most recent ( and last ) Substack post, I’ve decided to leave that platform and put all of my newest writing here on my own website. You can’t read it there anymore…
As I sit down to write this, I’m thinking about a friend of mine whose birthday is today. Well, I still call him friend, though I can’t say what his take on the matter is, because I haven’t heard from him in going on five years. Though we only got together in person a few…
I recently read the news that a woman in a nearby town had passed earlier this year and it produced a moment of sadness as I remembered her. Truth is, I didn’t know Alice well at all. Aside from one or two conversations, we were strangers to each other. But I remember those conversations, well,…
( vaɪˈsɛniəl ) adjective – lasting twenty years 2025 marks my twentieth year in the band Kilrush. Now, right up front I will concede that there were times where I thought I was done with it and I wasn’t out playing with them. But even during those periods of what I call “my hiatus” I…
Working in the world of education, even on the fringe like I do, has its advantages, one of them being summer vacation. While we have the option to work during the summer, this year finds me taking the time off instead. And it finds me thinking of things to do for the next two months…