A while back, I was picking up a few things at Aldi in Elmira. I had a full cart and I noticed the lady behind me in the check out line only had one thing. Now, I was raised right – I wait my turn, I say “please,” “thank you,” and say “excuse me” when…
Like many of you, I’m sure, I looked at the calendar this morning thinking, “WTF…” And I wasn’t referring to Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, either. Here we are on this last day of August, a rainy one for us in our neck of the woods, as we jump back into the “-ber” months that take…
When I was a younger man, beginning sometime around the age of twelve or so, I was a very outdoorsy person. All i wanted to do was hunt, fish, trap… anything that I could do outdoors. I spent endless hours wandering the creeks and hillsides that surrounded my home. There wasn’t a square foot that…
We’d talked about getting a dumpster and hoeing out the house for years. But in April we finally ponied up the money and did it. This move was hastened by the decision that our delapidated old garage was on its last leg, the other leg being completely fucked a long time ago. Now each heavy…
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…
