Christmas Exodus

 A couple more runs to the airport to send our two warm weather offspring back to their coat-free comfortable climates and that will be it. Christmas is a wrap for another year. All in all, I’d say it was a good one. Our two youngest grandchildren, Zoey and Ella, seemed delighted with the bags of…

Christmas 2012

Well, we snuck by the end of the world projections on Friday. I must confess, I was sure the Mayan calendar was a bunch of hooey..but kept counting the hours until Saturday officially arrived all around the world. Come on..I’ll bet I’m not the only one. Anyway, it didn’t take long for the cartoonists to…

Suffer The Little Children

Try as I may, there’s no pretending that last Friday in Connecticut didn’t happen. It did. Now, as photographs of these precious little ones, who were slaughtered without mercy, appear on the internet, I just can’t look at them. Like many of you, I see my own children and grandchildren in their innocent faces and…

Holiday Cheers

It’s just one minute after high noon on a Monday and I’m already on my second Bloody Mary. Now before you look up AA in the phone book (It’s toward the front) to forward me the number..or start planning for a Lund intervention..chill.  I’m retired, it’s below zero outside, and I don’t plan on leaving…

A-wop-bop-a-loo-mop-a-wop-bam-boom!

 “Good Golly Miss Molly,” Little Richard is now 80.  I thought that was a pretty clever line until I Googled Little Richard, in order to confiscate a recent picture of the rock and roll legend, only to find that lots of other writers had beaten me to it. That’s the thing about the internet; you…