I backed my car out of a tight slot between SUVs at Walmart. My wife screamed, “Look out! Look out!” arms waving; scaring the living shit out of me. I slammed on the brakes. The car rocked at my sudden stop from .00006 miles per hour. The huge guy reflected in my rear view mirror [...]

I retired here. A conscious choice. Not like, I’m done working so I’ll just stay here, type bullshit. Rather, it’s quiet. There’s a hunting season but I live inside the city limit so you can’t discharge a gun; except during a family dispute. Even then it’s only fifty-fifty you’ll get off. During hunting season I [...]

As they rocked in his recliner the baby boy plastered on the front of him slept. A humming noise he made in his throat insured the kid remained unconscious. He remembered the noise from rocking his own long-gone son who had also fallen asleep right away when rocked while he repeated this noise over and [...]

“Hey man, let’s go down to the Pub and grab a pint or three,” says Gropinski . His jeans are dirty from working on the docks. “Can’t. Got a pickleball game.” “A what?” He says. “Pickleball. My Ayurvedic counselor turned me on to it.” “What’s…?” He begins, but I give him my full gig. “I [...]

No having much knowledge of politics in general or politicians in particular, I was startled by this late night thought; a thought so clear I turned on the TV to see if I had heard it on the News. The thought was that Republican candidates for President are all either idiots or dangerous egotistical psychopaths. [...]

This blog thing obviously isn’t working out. Unlike the banana brains walking around constantly talking on smartphones, or texting, or sending blubber to facebook, or tweets to Kim Kardashian, it appears I do not have anything nonstop to say that cannot wait another day, or week, or even year. I have come to suspect the [...]