2023

I’ve had a pierogi or two. I’ll tell you that right now.When I was a kid, a Lithuanian family lived right up the street. One of the girls was a year younger than me, and we used to hang out quite a bit back in the East Bruce Avenue days. One thing I loved about […]

Guns. In America, they are everywhere. But I don’t need to tell you that. America has the worst murder ratio by guns of any first-world country. Some third-world countries have higher gun deaths, but those all fall under the crime-laden, drug-trafficking countries like El Salvador, Venezuela, and Guatemala. But as far as guns per capita

We don’t know how the things we do will affect others. We simply don’t know where those ramifications might land. I’ve written about “cause and effect” a few times before. The reason for this is that “cause and effect” are in every part of our being. And doing. There’s always the old (and worn out)

Today, I’d like to introduce another entry by Linda Stowe. Linda addresses each of her topics with such wisdom and intelligent curiosity. The following piece is no different. In it, she addresses the “evolution” of our society’s acceptance of ignorance. As I would point out, our country has somehow slipped into lauding ignorance. Cheering it

Today is National Scrapbook Day. I don’t really scrapbook. But I do collect random facts. You know, those things that happen in the Universe. The things that make you go, “Hmmm.” So, if I had a scrapbook, I might paste some of these inside, with pictures and drawings of little mice. Probably. Let’s turn the

I think we all like to sleep. I know I do. We certainly know how important sleep is to our well-being and our health. We sure do need it to function in our daily comings and goings. Some people cope with a lack of sleep much better than others. But whenever any of us are

At some point, humans started speaking. Isn’t that something? A word was formed on that first person’s lips. This happened somewhere in time. I mean, think of it. That guttural grunting turned into a word, like “rock,” or “tree,” or “Oh, shit. There’s a wooly mammoth standing right behind you.” But from there, not only

It is getting to be that time of year again. Everything is green and in bloom in the plant world. And. All the creatures below the heavens have emerged from their winter resting spots. In some places, this might mean bears. In these parts, it brings out ground hogs, skunks, box turtles, and others. Including…