Category Archives: Vignettes

Incompetence has landed at our apartment complex and cost us our swimming pool, courtyards, grills for the summer, and to top it off, I lost the use of my patio….or Continue Reading →

The aligning of a great paper’s editorial page with any administration is wrong and I am lodging my little protest.          I MADE A meaningless protest last night. By that Continue Reading →

I haven’t quit writing. I’ve just been unable to do it, for a lot of whiney reasons. So, time to buck up and get back in the saddle, even if Continue Reading →

The rain, falling gently, lets an old guy feel lazy without feeling guilty             I’VE BEEN LAZY this week. It’s not for any physical reason. It’s just the rain.             I’ve always liked Continue Reading →

Thinking about health care and wondering how some folks navigate it all on-line, and what if they don’t? And, of course, who is shut out by cost?             I’m about to head Continue Reading →

Today, I cannot love my country, not against the background noise of gunfire and the cries of children.                   LITTLE BOYS and girls skip down the street to elementary school, or step Continue Reading →

A dove’s call takes me on a journey back to other times and a song…                   THOSE DAMNED DOVES.                   Every morning when I sit out on the patio, surrounded by flowers Continue Reading →

Aches and pains and Mortality, my new roomie…. My body is falling apart.                   That’s not a lament or a whine. It’s a fact.                   It’s been going on for a while Continue Reading →