When I graduated from 8th grade, in 1957, my parents gave me an amazing 35mm Wirgin camera, 2 rolls of black and white Kodak film, I think they were 24 exposure rolls, a brown custom fitted leather camera case with a matching leather strap and a collapsible fan-shaped flash attachment with 6 flash bulbs. The … Continue reading
Regarding Giuliani’s recent “remarks” about Obama not loving America, well, here’s how I feel about Giuliani… Since withdrawing from the election for a US senate seat because of cancer, Giuliani has become a nuisance, a vexation to everyone’s spirit. He just needs to be ignored henceforth and forever more! Socrates says it best… “When … Continue reading
The 50s, 60s and 70s were a period of intense discontent, mistrust and passionate “cultural change” in the United States. The Vietnam war, young folks protesting that war, burning draft cards and bras, the civil rights marches, Rosa Parks and freedom rides, the Civil Rights Act, Woodstock, Kent State, love-ins, LSD, pot, hippies, yuppies and … Continue reading
Look at me folks. Today is Friday, Friday morning. Do you understand? Be loving to all, and be on your way. Don’t dilly-dally. Great things are expected of you today. See you at you supper. May God Bless everyone! OK, you can inhale now.
A couple of weeks ago my wife and I visited our grand-kids and in Denver, Colorado, the mile high city. During a side trip into the mountains, we visited a child’s indoor interactive playground, in Beaver Creek, Co. (altitude approximately 8,500 feet). While I enjoyed watching the kids having a blast, I noticed on a … Continue reading
When I get an email and in the signature block I read: ‘Sent from my IPHONE’, or ‘Sent from my BLACKBERRY’ (or something similar) I want to gag. It’s as though the sender wants to impress me, that he/she has the latest “Magic Bullet” communication device, or their device has some inherent charm or revelation … Continue reading
****** * * * * * * * * * * I suggest in the interest of improving home and office safety, all throw rugs, regardless of size, color, thickness or shape, be outlawed! They’re cute, till someone trips over one. No, I didn’t … Continue reading
Dr. Patch Adams is right; everyone on this planet needs a life long dose of excessive happiness, and I mean everyone. * * * * * * * * * * * * * No later than the night before Christmas Eve, I will have a large sign in place on my roof, with neon … Continue reading
The shoelace is one mankind’s greatest inventions, right there with the wheel, the zipper, the ballpoint pen, the tie clip and false teeth. I checked; it was around 2000 BC when the first evidence of shoelaces showed up in the timeline of man. Unfortunately, I think the shoelace business is not going to be around … Continue reading
No Ulterior Motive 