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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    Hope

    About sixteen years ago, then Senator Barrack Obama came out with a book called “The Audacity of Hope”. I used to see this book on the shelf and be very cynical about it. I was a John McCain fan. He was a hero for crying out loud, but he also showed great courage in backing…

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    Best Days

    The older I get, the more I find myself trying to define my life. I don’t really mean what was my purpose. I figured that out many years ago. I knew I would never live a life glamourous by nature, but feel I certainly served a purposeful life in many areas. I lived a life…

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    What I Miss

    As you get older, you begin missing things you either once could do because of physical capability or miss it due to innocence you had as a kid. Might even be from naivety, I know there were plenty of things I didn’t understand when younger that I do now. Probably what I hate most is…

  • Making It Happen

    Making it happen. A simple statement of a matter of fact nature. Yet also one of the hardest things to make yourself do. First you have to define what it is. It for me, for the longest of time, has been to become a writer. This blog is a minor attempt to fulfill that dream….

  • Primary Results and More

    So many things are going on right now. The Primaries for many states are concluding and we are seeing a pattern to who we’ll see on the ballot. Numerous MAGA candidates are not making the cut with voters, but then there are those districts and states that have surprising results. Most notable to me, coming…

  • A Sunrise on the Lake

    All my life I thought I’d end up living on a lake and waking to one of the best feelings I think one can have, experiencing the morning with a sunrise coming up over a lake. All mornings are special in the fact that you get a new day, cleansed by the night before, to…