So, once more the whole process of getting used to each other started again.  I was a lot less confident of the direction we were going too.  Still, it seemed as though we were going to try and make things work.  The days went by quickly.  We explored our new surroundings… Read full post »

So, I see this and think, I have to find a way to use it.  Nothing,  Submitted, just for fun.

So it is over,  Another giant meal and the fun of family gathering together with all of the joy that too much wine and bourbon can bring.  Leaving us with the one thing that few can escape after a Thanksgiving dinner that can't be beat.  Leftovers, leftover turkey, vegetables, bread, t… Read full post »

Comes a time when there is no place left to go but up or out.  Out is not an option, so up it is.  The world in general is a mess.  How could it be anything else?  The masses of people who find reasons for discord in their beliefs, the throngs of… Read full post »

Forgive me for doing this here, I have spent most of my life toiling , not because I'm trying to exceed the norm, just so I don't lose too much ground.  To get up in the morning without a situation that requires all of my cunning and wit to avoid the… Read full post »

November is usually a month of contradictions here in the middle lands.  We can go from sixty and sunny to twenty and snow in the space of twelve hours.  A carpet of crisp, brown leaves blankets the world and unlike in spring, a smell of decay permeates the air.  Th… Read full post »

How can I be sure?

In a world that's constantly changing.

I'm changing, arranging

That's how it happens living life by the drop

Spinning, spinning, spinning.

Spinning like a spinning top.She's got a crazy partner, ought to see him reel and rock.

When the truth is found

To be lies

and… Read full post »

Two weeks isn't long to get everything in your life to work in a functioning way.  A month into a marriage with  woman that I had really never gotten to know.  We see the problems with how lives mesh and me? I think I can see a less than happy ending… Read full post »

A lot of people have said " my life is an open book" .  It seems now that mine is literally becoming one.  I have been posting snippets from my life here since my earliest days on Open Salon.  Frequently out of order and almost always lacking in explicitness.  I know… Read full post »

I suppose I'm a little slow.  I have been beating my brain out trying to figure out how the party of Lincoln could have done such a complete about face and become the party of no.  How could people who got behind the ending of slavery be so obtuse when it… Read full post »

The apartment we picked was in a section of Norfolk called Ocean View.  Coming as we did from the interior midwest, this sounded pretty cool.  Like most Navy suckers, we didn't understand that the only way for us to get an ocean view from our place was to go up the street by… Read full post »

Well, I wasted a lot of valuable assets here in an effort to get people to just back off when us folks with problems lose control.  I never meant any of it to be a blanket condemnation of any individual or point of view.  

I can't name people here, I… Read full post »

I come from a good sized Irish family.  Mom, Pop, and five kids counting me.  Christmas with very little in the way of gifts was often a fiscally crippling event for my folks.  I'd been working since I was ten and the Navy was the best paying job I'd ever had.… Read full post »

I reach out to the world through this little page.  I hope for some love, some acceptance, and some thought.  If we see people in pain and lashing out we have to help them, not by finding fault or making assumptions about intent or trying to label as though they were… Read full post »

91 years ago, the world stopped for an instant as the first technological war came to an end.  This brutal, bloody, holocaust was the first ever seen with the miracles of modern warfare.  Airplanes, tanks, machine guns, radio, trucks, all played a part in the most vicious war the world had… Read full post »

I hit the tarmac in Carbondale Illinois at approximately ten p.m. on December twenty fourth 1977.  One person was there to greet me.  Maybe I was a little hurt by that, I don't know.  I flew in on the long defunct Ozark Airlines.  You may have heard of them since it… Read full post »

I know that generally Fridays are workdays for me here.  I have another project working and some chores to attend to and this Friday and perhaps the whole weekend will see me gone.  Unless of course I am dragged into it by obnoxious ranters and begging from dissappointed readers.  I do… Read full post »

Most of you don't know my friend Jessie Mitchell or Jmitch79 as he is known in these hallowed halls.  He signed up here at my urging since he is an aspiring writer and really rather good too.  Last weekend his daughter was diagnosed with pneumonia, after a weekend in the local… Read full post »

1.   Lies and spreading fear to the ill informed
2.   Questioning the presidents birth certificate.
3.   Repression of civil liberties in the name of security.
4.   No bid contracts for former business associates of the president and vice president.
5.  … Read full post »

The second day of my first weekend off base was the first time I felt relaxed in a long time.  It was December and it wasn't the warmest time of the year to sit on a beach.  Still I spent a long time there that day.  Looking out at the foaming… Read full post »

What a difference a day makes.  I was no longer a worm, raisin, or recruit.  Just another squid.  No more nonsense like marching or double timing to and from different classes or appointments.  Still in a mass barracks no private rooms.  Oddly enough, there were stalls in the… Read full post »

Part of the problem in getting meaningful(read as effective) health care reform seems to be the simple fact that our "representatives" are receiving large amounts of unreported, untaxed, unearned income from the industries and businesses that will be the most affected by real reform or the unicorn of… Read full post »

Submitted for your approval.  A group of bony boys to entertain you like they did your grandparents and even some of your great grand parents.  Disney and Ub Iwerks with music by the great Carl Stalling.

This was spooky cinema at the time.  So old bob is a stick in the… Read full post »

Graduation Day, roll it over in your mind for a moment.  The "culmination" of this journey into the madness of military service.  Twelve weeks of brainwashing and indoctrination and psychological conditioning.  All done up in what amounts to a parade and a lot o… Read full post »

I sent this little note to Harry Reid today when the fabulous public option was revealed.  Those folks were patting themselves on the back so hard I'd bet they have bruises.  Option or not it still forces us all to hand over our money in the form of premium and even… Read full post »