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I hate noise! Don’t take peace and quiet for granted! I AM REALLY damn tired of noise. The back story. About 10 years ago when the apartment complex I live in Continue Reading →
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What’s on my mind is getting stuff off my mind
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Warning to Medical Professionals: This post may contain offensive information about self-care. DAMN! REALLY, DAMN! And I call myself a writer. I noticed today the last time I put up Continue Reading →
A Vignette…about buried creativity, self-pity and jackhammers…
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EVER FEEL LIKE your brain is stuck in neutral? Or maybe just paralyzed. It’s functioning, aware but it can’t seem to direct any action. Once upon a time I wrote constantly. Continue Reading →
Sorry Bubba, but you and your gun-nut buddies are just a band of pathetic cowards with blood on your hands.
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Real men don’t live in such a state of fear they need an arsenal in the basement. Only cowards do…. TIME TO LOOK in the mirror and face up to who Continue Reading →
A friend went to a new Target and was disappointed, so I went to our new Target, and…
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I wasn’t disappointed, or “wowed.” It was OK. I’ll go from time to time, but in the end it was just another big box….. THE OTHER MORNING Kevin Coupe, consultant to Continue Reading →
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A chilly, cloudy, misty morning reminds me of what I’d be doing if I was still in a house, not an apartment. Mother Natures always sent reminders on the chores Continue Reading →
This Morning I Got Gob-smacked by Trump’s Tariffs…
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As an old guy living alone, I’ve pretty much always just tossed things into the shopping cart. After this morning, I’m going to be a much more careful shopper, and Continue Reading →
It’s not surrendering to accept the realities of getting old…
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I have been contemplating exercise and come to the conclusion I don’t need as much as habit and ego tell me I do…. EXERCISE HAS BEEN on my mind lately. I’ve Continue Reading →
I have declared today a “nothing day” and I am looking forward to seeing how it works out
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Who knows, doing nothing could become a very productive habit, maybe even a pathway to some peace of mind. You never know until you try…. I HAVE DECLARED today a “nothing Continue Reading →
If there aren’t monsters under my bed, then there can’t be a God…
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One man’s simplistic view of religion and the universe…. WHEN I WAS a boy, monsters lived in my closet. It’s why I don’t believe in God. There is a connection. When Continue Reading →
Tell me again why we can’t have a health care system like most industrialized countries…
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We have great doctors, nurses, facilities, but actually getting into them in a timely fashion is a challenge. I am frustrated….. I HAVE BEEN a fan of national health care for Continue Reading →
Now is not the time to lay blame for lack of warning for the Guadalupe River flood, or to play politics
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It may be cuts to the National Weather Service impacted forecasts for Kerr County, TX, but it also may be that Mother Nature created a perfect storm at a time Continue Reading →
It is a holiday but I can’t rise to celebration…
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I find my aging self in mourning for my country, but also feeling hope as I look at those who still are young…. AS I SIT on this beautiful July 4 Continue Reading →
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Life in boxes and pots confuses my plants and they hold me responsible. I will try to earn their trust…. I DON’T HAVE a garden anymore. It’s the one thing I Continue Reading →
A dove coos, a song comes back with memories of love
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Love is broad and timeless and it may fade, but moments can bring back into focus time, place and people from days gone by. A DOVE COOED in the distance this Continue Reading →