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I wonder what young King Arthur was like. About the time he pulled the sword from the stone.   Most versions of the story say he was around fifteen. But I put him much younger. Like, I think he could have been around ten or eleven. You know, barely able to lift the thing once he […]

A few days off.   The grasshopper and I.  “”””””” “Happiness, not in another place but this place… not for another hour, but this hour.” — Walt Whitman “”””””” “Ring the bells that still can ring, forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen

The imbalance of wealth in America is staggering to say the very least.  It is awful, if you ask me, and it’s only been growing wider. A small fraction of the population controls an outsized share of the nation’s wealth. This happens while millions struggle to cover basic expenses like housing, healthcare, and education. The

There has to be a first time for everything. Nothing in this world began without its very first time. So with that, I bring you William Haines.  You may not know his name, but he was Hollywood’s first out gay superstar. William Haines was sure he’d be fired one day. He worked as an errand

I had three bikes when I was a kid, from the time I learned to ride, all the way through high school. Those three bikes took me on every jaunt I would take around the city of Dayton. I rode them everywhere. The first one was my favorite of the three. I can’t even begin

Computers Among Us By Linda Stowe I am concerned about the extent to which computers are insinuating themselves into our lives and we do not even notice. Some examples:This morning, I was thinking about a coin purse my grandfather had. It was a little oval rubber thing that looked kind of junky, but it provided

In the world these days, our president has made the terms “fake news” and “hoax” common household words.  But back in the day, before all this lying started, we had a different kind of lying.  They were a bit on the fun side. It was those good old crazy urban legends. In case you need

I don’t eat cereal.  I never really have. As a kid, I had fried eggs, fried bologna, and white bread toast every morning for breakfast.  Almost every morning. We never had cereal except for the occasional hot oatmeal. I used to love sleeping over at my friends’ houses because they always ate cereal in the