“Holy shit, Rick! I am so glad to hear your voice. Is it getting any better for you?” I asked.

“Well, I don't know. I died last night.”

“Huh?”

“Yeah, I was dead for three and a half minutes. The entire room… Read full post »

Duke's front door blew open and banged into the bookshelf, sending his three prized Hemingway hard-backed novels cascading to the floor. This woke him up from his deep slumber but he ignored it at first and simply turned over while rolling up in the comforting quilt handcrafted years a… Read full post »

Chapter Five- Gentle Mabel Took a Life

It was almost dinner time this summer day. I was covered with dirt after spending the day with Terry, Brad, Steven, the Kluss boys and the Jensen brothers digging a fort in the gully./… Read full post »

 _{The Philospher's Stone}

It is puzzling that we struggle with this life

We worry about what others think about us

When they really don't reflect on us at all

We reach out our hand to others hoping

Often, our hands get slapped away or dismissed… Read full post »

  Come and people watch with me at a Manhattan crosswalk.  The Crosswalk of Decisions.

 Little Timmy held his father's hand at the crosswalk. “Dad where are all those people going?”the youngster asked, pointing at an assemblage of people clad in predominantly black/… Read full post »

 Robert Kennedy was murdered on my seventeenth birthday over forty-three years ago. With his death liberal issues and changes died too. Nixon, Reagan and Bush, Jr were elected and re-elected with the senior Bush serving one term. Thirty-one years of Republican presidents out of/… Read full post »

  I'm a Metaphysical Bad-Ass!

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The Devil's in the Details

“Why do you insist on trying to make heaven here on earth?”

The Zen of Stupidity

Greetings fellow primates! Today, I invite you into my humble  bubble to discuss a concept of which I harbor supreme personal knowledge. That concept is stupidity. To get us started I share this quote: “I've done a fair share of stupid things… Read full post »

Virgil should not drink.

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 One of my pals, Dr. Susanne Freeborn, had this shot of a wall in her home in one of her posts. I love looking at this. It is such a positive thing. It is a good lead-in to the biggest and best tool that we need to add to our… Read full post »

Hello, strangers. I have been practicing reliving the future.  I was mediating one early morning when some memories came blazing in  from my subconscious to my frontal lobe, exactly like shooting stars.  Come watch the show.  

I entered the… Read full post »

It took four priests to hold down the wildly struggling, shrieking man on the large flat stone tablet. The high priest then took a razor-sharp piece of flint  and cut open the man's chest until he got to the still beating heart. He snatched/… Read full post »

 _{This entire post is an educated guess on my part.  I think I am right but I do not have the right to make a diagnosis without more information.  I am highly alert to symptoms of schizophrenia and somewhat skilled at recognizing them.} 

A mentally ill young soul fell into… Read full post »

 My life is a series of jokes at times and I both blame and love Jesus or whomever or whatever for it all.  I have to tell you about a gift I received this holiday season that really illustrates my personal relationship with a Cosmic Jokester who relishes… Read full post »

 _{Seatttle Space Needle on a clear day with Mt. Rainier in the distance}

"Son of a bitch!  Not that goddamn phone again!"  I shout aloud as I push the button on the cell phone. 

"Yeah, this is Blackie," I answer embarrassed by my aburptness and tone. 

"Ahh,… Read full post »

It  is not fair.  I need some help with my Marriage Problem. I am asking for your support here.  The problem?  I have been officially married three times and being an old baseball player that sounds a lot like three strikes and you're out.   I need the help of Ri… Read full post »

The OS Argument clinic is now open.  Argument Tuesdays is a new feature that I will be hosting. 

"No, you won't."

"Yes, I will."

"You'll never do it."

"Already am.  Look at this session."

Death shadows me in this life

Always the constant companion

First my blood mystery father

Who fell at my feet-gone

The dream shows a flipping knife

Going directly at my grandpa's neck

We get the word that he has collapsed… Read full post »

Okay, now on with the show.  This one is both moral, proper and one I will never regret.  It is one of my very best. 

Richie Rognstad was and is a dickhead.  I know,  not a very nice thing to say about someone, especially someone you have… Read full post »

Back up people.  Don't you amateurs try to compete on this open call.  I am a professional con-man of great note.  Let the pro speak.  In fact, just give me the entire cover for this one.  This is like tipping Albert Pujols off to a coming change-up coming down the heart… Read full post »

 ^{One of the true masterpieces of poetry put to music.}

I have been making up these YouTube play-lists recently.  I made one that runs for nearly three hours that has all my very favorite tunes.  I have 34 of these play-lists.  The latest additions are: Van Morrison, Cat… Read full post »

       It is zero degrees at this very moment.  The roads are treacherous, our huge rivers are freezing and I am busy trying to keep warm.  Wow, what an early storm this one is!  Coldest since 1985.  My normal bus ride of 40 minutes took three… Read full post »

What the heck is going on?  I decided after my head-on collision with the electric wheelchair on my mountain bike that I had better crank up the old Nissan and drive.  That turned out to be an error. 

I was putt-putting along on our main street, Bridge Street… Read full post »