I carry a notebook and pen with me wherever I go. I use them to jot down observations from my life. Later, I sift through those random episodes like a prospector panning for gold nuggets to write my blog postings. I am forever looking for the sublime within the mundane like [...]
We wash it. We blow it. We stroke it and grow it. Hair, that is, those stringy locks that cascade over the shoulder or lay close cropped to the scalp. Have you ever wondered why we have it?
I figure all biological function ties back to sex in one way or another. [...]
So if you came here expecting to hear about the latest vacuum cleaner sucking appendages I am so sorry to disappoint. Today’s topic is emotional attachment, the bonds we create towards people, places and things in our lives.
I recently moved house for the umpteenth time. I threw away and gave away several truckloads [...]
When you take a pill do you gulp it down dry or wet?
Me, I prefer it wet. I must have some liquid sliding down my throat with that little button of headache-dethrobbing, fever-deflating chemically induced joy.
I have a good friend hooked on Ibuprofen. It is sad really. She [...]
Have you ever watched as cancer ate the body and soul of a loved one? Have you ever felt lost and desperate?
So I sat in Starbucks this past weekend scanning a newspaper I scavenged off a table. I read out the standings of the St. Jude’s Classic Golf tournament to my [...]
If you came here expecting a treatise on pre-coital gropings a possibly a “how-to-blog” on preprocreational activities, I am sorry to disappoint.
No, today’s post is all about the sadness and blue mood that is stimulated by the loss of a beloved pet. Animals flit into our lives, like love itself, almost upon [...]
Has anyone ever challenge your authority? Or have you possibly met a person who defied gender?
Yesterday I ventured to the local Piggly Wiggly. Which is the best name I’ve heard for a grocery store since Harris Teeter (which, when I say out loud, conjures up images of man with nipple rings.)
“I [...]
Have you ever been flying higher than an untethered kite floating free while your significant other wallows in a foul temper? Who wins these skirmishes, these clashes of moods?
Some folks are in the mood for love. Others, for foxy carpet. Some are up, some are down. Such is the [...]
What playing surface do you excel on: flannel, cotton, satin, or possibly clay, grass or hardcourt?
The French are so dirty. Folks are forever sliding willy-nilly on that red clay surface and screaming obscenities. Some players were born for it and seem to win effortlessly. Still others prefer theirs hard, [...]