To do list

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got, and you’ll always feel what you always felt. –Unknown I stumbled across a hidden treasure the other day. I found a blog called 5thingstodotoday.com. It’s a neat little piece...

The best policy

I observe how people act, as well as how they talk. I offer my honest opinion, Gilbert. Formerly, you thought that a sign of respect. –from City of Darkness, City of Light, by Marge Piercy That passage stopped me in my tracks yesterday as I was slogging through...

Never too late

I’ve never been enamored by seemingly impossible feats that some people feel compelled to attempt just to prove they can. Walking across Niagara Falls on a tightrope? Pointless. Jumping the Snake River Canyon on a motorcycle? Ridiculous. Swimming from Cuba to...

The A-team

It’s here! It’s here! Football season is here! For those of you new to my blog, I love pro football. The American kind, just to be clear. Besides filling my Sundays (and Thursdays and Mondays, with an occasional Saturday sprinkled through the season), it...

Freewheeling Friday

I have about 32 half-formed blog posts in my head, but not a single one is quite ready to come out in its entirety. Apparently, I expect these things to spring from my forehead in the same manner in which Zeus produced Athena. In any case, thoughts are...