January 2021

I just can’t imagine sitting in my living room, minding my own business, maybe working on a crossword puzzle, and a whole bunch of white guys with guns, show up where I live, telling me that I’m a savage, and my home is now their land. They give me a choice. I can either leave […]

Records. I am often amazed by records. Not the black discs that go round and round on the player and music comes out. Albeit, those are pretty incredible too. No. I’m talking about the kinds of records that are the most, the biggest, the fastest, and the highest. Like the Guinness World Records. I don’t

I rarely write about the day’s biggest headlines for one of two reasons. I figure, first of all, by the time you come around to reading this, you’ve already been saturated with every fact known to man/woman about the current headline of the day. And the second thing? Perhaps you come here to have a

Her first big film break came when she was six years old. She danced her little self, all across the big screen, and won the hearts of America. Heck, the whole world. Little Miss Shirley Temple. As a sidebar, I have to say — this is how my drinking career began, probably when I was

I am a little leery of people with only one name. They do it to themselves. Like Madonna, and Prince, and Bono. They act like they are the only person in the world with that name, and everyone should automatically know who they are. It seems a little self-centered, perhaps. But I guess you can

I’ve tried keeping a journal on a few occasions, but it was years ago. Some of my sisters kept journals at the time and said it would be good for me to write things down and explore my feelings and thoughts. It never worked out that way, in my experience. Most days, I’d end up

Truthfully? I worry about Betty White. She’s 99 years old and I know she won’t be around forever. But, we haven’t seen a photo of her in quite some time. A couple of weeks ago, I caught an interview with Bob Newhart. He didn’t look so great, in my opinion. I hate to say it,

I’ve always been a “word” person. For as long as I can remember, I have enjoyed reading the dictionary. It is kind of sad now, because I rely so much on digital spelling and online dictionaries when I write or work. But years ago, I had a few of the “book” versions around my house,