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.
  • Surviving 2025, Will We?

    I don’t know about you, but 2025 has to be the craziest year ever and we are only a quarter of the way through it. Donald Trump, with a little help from his co-president Elon Musk, have single-handedly begun a destruction campaign on American ways of life. Unemployment has risen to over 4%, the stock…

  • Dreams and Reality

    I’ve managed to make a career out of dealing with reality and fact-based solutions. Admittedly, I worked in a world of technology, and with that comes a very analytical approach to everything, some would say even a handcuffed to procedures mentality. It has also bled over into my personal life which drives my wife nuts….

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    Transitions

    Throughout our lives, we come to many crossroads having to make decisions on which path we’ll take. These decisions are based on one single factor although we make lists of pros and cons, it really comes down to risk tolerance. We decide whether the risk factor fits into our current assessment of life. Most of…

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    Angry Dreams

    A few weeks ago, from out of the blue, I contracted double pneumonia. No lead in symptoms other than maybe a little drainage, but I went from feeling pretty good to cold chills in an hours’ time. The next day, I had a teledoc appointment and was prescribed an antibiotic for a possible sinus infection….

  • A’int America Great?

    With the chaos going on in D.C. and the wholesale clearing house approach to firing federal employees to ensure only loyalists remain as employees, it is a travesty. Career employees don’t work with political aspirational thoughts. In fact, there is the Hatch Act that is to maintain a federal workforce that is free from partisan…

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    Federal Chaos

    We’re in the midst of the first hundred days Trump Ver.2.0. Most of us, correction, probably everyone is flabbergasted at the seemingly illegal use of Executive Orders and yet so many, in an effort to justify their vote, are making excuses for the chaotic effort by this administration. The do-nothing Congress has pushed all of…