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…
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…
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…
Writers are a strange breed. Successful ones seem to have found the secret sauce. For many years of practice and dedication to writing seem to improve their style and ability to elicit a response with their words. I love to read and I love to write, but I don’t profess to be good, interesting, and…
In these days of more and more uncertainty, I find myself reminiscing of times with happiness and a blissful unawareness to politics, health insurance, and all the adult things we have to think about these days. The insanity in our federal government and chiefly our illustrious buffoon of a president and all his minions is…
When I was a kid, I never paid attention to politics and current events. I watch my granddaughter now living next door and am transported to a day when I was oblivious to things that make us adults shutter with horror. The Gestapo, aka ICE, has done it again and murdered another citizen of the…
Over a year ago, we all knew this country was putting a lunatic back into the highest office in this country. Mexican Americans, black males, and numerous swing voters tired of Biden’s ineffectiveness with a supporting Congress, and yet he was fixated on making sure everything was bipartisan, were tired of the ineffectiveness of the…
Recently, I’ve been coming to some realizations about being retired. This epiphany isn’t seen more than when it comes to retirement income and trying to get a home loan. Since retirement, we have been working hard at remodeling our home. We have spent money we had from various sources knowing that we were building equity…
Or the lack of. I don’t seem to have as much as I used too. I was much better at dividing the smaller things from the bigger things and as the old saying goes, don’t sweat the little stuff. Except, these days I seem to sweat small, large, inconsequential, or consequential. I fret and worry…
These days its harder to find the things we can consider honorable. I say things because it isn’t just people that should be honorable, but it also includes entities, such as businesses that should be held to a higher standard of honor. Politics has become something less than honorable, if not downright disrespectful. I’m not…
