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  • Waiting

    posted: Jun. 29, 2021.

    A bleached, bleak, blasted, barren berm.  Two refugees on the road.  One has stinking feet, the other stinking breath.  They can't go  on.  They must go on.  Surely tomorrow he Read more
  • Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane. Or vice-versa.

    posted: Jun. 29, 2021.

    I started reading the "SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS' the other day.  And what an eye-opener it is. I have long teased vegan friends that nothing about nourishment is merciful.  You eat Read more
  • Pandemic punishment: The next wave

    posted: Jun. 29, 2021.

    For those of us fortunate enough to have some sort of employment, though it not be up to our education, there is new basement to which employers have dropped. It is Read more
  • Birnam Wood and Dunsinane: Part II

    posted: Jun. 29, 2021.

    Today represents the second day of my natural observational approach.  As you can see, this is not working.  And this photo makes it looks better than in reality.   I took Read more
  • Anti business model

    posted: Jun. 23, 2021.

    I am against the business model of capitalism as applied to commodities and medicine.    I am against the business model of psychotherapy, where psychotherapists are paid little, have no Read more
  • I'm from 911 and I'm here tohelp you

    posted: Jun. 13, 2021.

    As I went walking, just at the start of sunset, I saw a young lady on the fire escape screaming.  Oh, she was cursing.  She was hopping mad.  Then, she Read more
  • Black Lives Matters

    posted: May 14, 2021.

    It didn’t begin with the Big Lie.  No, not the one you’re thinking about—but the one where Germany was “stabbed in the back,” and though they preferred to continue fighting, Read more
  • Cotton wool

    posted: Apr. 30, 2021.

    Dear Readers:  Kurt Vonnegut, in his short story, "Welcome to the Monkey House," posited an America, where, due to the population explosion, all citizens were mandated to take a medicine Read more
  • Ergonomics

    posted: Apr. 26, 2021.

    Amidst all of our siege mentality, let's plan for a return to post-Covid siege life.  What do I mean--women's clothing. Women have long put up with clothing that we cannot fasten Read more
  • A touch of the poet

    posted: Apr. 01, 2021.

    Vonnegut began Slaughterhouse 5:  "Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." It was required reading in Junior Year of High School.  I compared Billy to Huck Finn at that time.  Apparently, Read more
  • Hippopatumus sans tutu

    posted: Mar. 13, 2021.

    Apparently, the comedy in the park ran its length and disappeared.  You remember those budding enthusiasts:  Why did the  formacophiliac,  zoophiliac, and buttsexual walk into the park....because that's where the psychologists Read more
  • But the rest of us are not.

    posted: Mar. 11, 2021.

    It's finally happened.  I'm having flashbacks to that awful second grade year at Vanderveer Elementary School.   That was the year when I started to realize some of the work made Read more
  • The ducks are all right

    posted: Feb. 20, 2021.

    The ducks are all right Holden Caulfield.  As you can see, even when the lake freezes over in parts, they skirt along its edges just fine.  They can act in Read more
  • The glove didn't fit and so they acquit

    posted: Feb. 13, 2021.

    Yesterday former President Trump got a belated Christmas present and was acquitted of charges to incite a riot against our Constitution.  And, after almost a week, after six weeks, after Read more
  • Learn from the bookworm

    posted: Jan. 23, 2021.

    As those of you whom regularly read this blog already know, I am and was a bookworm.  So I have some practice in being a lonely, marginalized, social isolate.  Without Read more
  • Lockdown Lunacy

    posted: Jan. 20, 2021.

    No one copes with the effects of prolonged isolation well.  Prisoners go psychotic.  Even strong, healthy individuals feel their psyche sag.  And then there's the rest of us.  But what Read more

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