Author: Buddy

I'm in my 60's and finally feel comfortable about myself, what I've accomplished, and where I'm headed. I'm relieved I have an outlet for a release of my own pent-up thoughts. All my life, thoughts have circled in my head with no direction of what to do with them. This space gives me a place to park them and move on.
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    Dozing Don

    For several years, Donald Trump monikered Joe Biden as “Sleepy Joe” due to Biden’s age and inability to stay awake during meetings and his natural slow down with him moving beyond eighty years old. What goes around comes around as the saying goes. Donald Trump became the oldest president to enter office and on the…

  • Great Horse Racing Week

    The week started off with great anticipation as our horse, Caldera, that we own shares of was scheduled to race Thursday. He as been on the sidelines recovering from an injury last year at the Louisiana Downs race as few weeks prior to the Kentucky Derby 2025. He was highly considered to do well in…

  • The Evil in Our Midst

    This past week there have been a number of shootings again. Maybe this is going on all the time, but the media has made sure to report on at least three I can think of off the top of my head that somehow caught me different than the others. All of them leading up to…

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    A Cast at 65?

    I’m somewhat in disbelief that I’m sporting a short hard cast on my leg. No accident, just a congenital problem with an Achilles tendon being too short. Most of my life, I’ve been fairly athletic playing most sports through high school and later on playing football. I used to have a thirty-six-inch vertical jump, so…

  • Patience

    So many aspects of our lives require a little patience. Problem is we live in a society hellbent on self-gratification every three minutes and when having to take a little time to deal with something, feel they don’t have time or the patience to deal with it. Even when it is explained what it is…

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    Opinions From the Bedside

    I’ve been paying less and less attention to politics and world events the last few weeks but unfortunately have gotten enough daily updates to be frustrated, nonetheless. This White House administration has been the worst disappointment I’ve felt in my adult life. I can’t think of another one that made me feel sick for how…

  • Tying a Fly

    Not sure if I can romanticize about tying a fly, but I do think about it often. I’ve been thinking about it more lately because I ran across my fly-tying box and brought it into the house. I thought, since I was going to be laid up for a bit, I might try to get…

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    Laid Up Again

    No less than my fourth major surgery in fifteen years, and I’m not sure I feel any better for it, but on the other hand one would have to wonder how messed up I’d be without them. There could have been a fifth, but the doctor said it wasn’t worth the trouble and instead I…

  • Shell Game On America

    During the campaign, Trump talked about Biden as being a senile old man and called him “Sleepy Joe”. Just add that to another of a long list of things Trump says about others but is actually projecting himself onto someone else. Over the last year, it has been a source of funny journalism for some…