Maybe just wait it out

Sixty-one, a nightmare

Sore tired legs

Stabbing pains in the heart and discs

Not ready to quit

Not fitting in any more

Not really needed

Afraid to branch out

Death, a cold freeze frame

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I've come across a terrific billboard picturing someone’s hand holding a phone with a cartoon drawing of a frog resting on it.  Have you seen it?  Next to that picture is an outstretched hand holding a real live frog and the only word underneath simply says UNPLUG.

Mos… Read full post »

There is asleep, a large population who has not of y… Read full post »

         It has been almost four months since I have contributed to this blog for personal reasons and business that had to take a priority.

          But today I believe I have witnessed the takeover… Read full post »

With the violent murders and atrocities in many other countries in Africa as well as in Libya, I will never understand why we do not do more to help the Sudan and why we ignore the horrors in Uganda. I listen to the ridiculous argument that criticizes those who support helping… Read full post »

I am sitting watching the CNN news broadcast of the February 2011 Egyptian crisis, and I notice the headlines running  across the news ticker reporting that thirty children ranging from three months to ten years were found abandoned  in the northern Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo… Read full post »

Before I started  this blog, I promised myself that I would not post without reading a book that would enhance my rhetoric  and put myself in a place of somewhat “doing my homework”.  But today’s experience makes me go back on my word and simply refer to… Read full post »

I always loved to listen to Barbara Bush.  She was a straight shooter with a no nonsense approach to life.  I use to lean fiscally toward the political right, because I thought the right understood business and knew a lot more than I did in that area.  Socially I always leaned… Read full post »

                  Most people consider Eugene’ O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh as one of the best plays of the 20th century. He creates an intense environment where struggling characters&… Read full post »

Fear. The world is starting to be crippled by it. Still haven’t met all the needs of those in Haiti, New Orleans and Indonesia. And now in Japan, innocent people again, victims of natural disaster.              &nbs… Read full post »

Religious conflict has always spilled over into geographical wars.  Not really news.   But in the last ten years the fight over who’s got the best religion seems to have gotten beyond anything I can understand.  When the race for agriculture and oil rights are mixed w… Read full post »

The new Wisconsin bill has been railroaded through, and Scott Walker, unfortunately, must now truly believe that he is what he alluded himself to be..that is, just like Ronald Reagan.  The same now may be true of Chris Christie who in a Fox interview alluded that he b/… Read full post »

Those Were the Days

According to MSNBC nightly broadcast, there are some splits going on in the Tea Party due to disagreements about private consultants beginning to take on positions that will change the movement from being about citizens to being about profit.  To quote a slick Gordon Gecko 's/… Read full post »

When most people want to dive into the mysterious side of life,  they usually go to a scary movie or read a Sci-Fi novel having to do with some fantasy or supernatural story.  Me too.  But lately my curious side has changed.  Now that we have entered 2011, the most mysterious… Read full post »