Archive For August 21, 2017
Want to type something excellent here before too long. Look at the dog’s face. He seems confused, thinking about escape. Meanwhile, I am thinking Andy, Andy, Andy… the kind of dog you’d take out for a beer. Might just be the best creature ever known. Love you, buddy. Love you.
Here is a transcript of the question-and-answer portion of President Donald Trump‘s press conference on Tuesday, Aug. 15, at Trump Tower in Manhattan. The press conference itself was focused on infrastructure reforms he plans to make, and then he invited questions. TRUMP: If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Q Mr. President, why…
Know I am a weed and my wife is a flower. Love makes a garden.
My first senior tour, complete with identification sticker, buffet lunch and squawling infants. Know before you go. “Plan for about a two-hour drive from Sedona to the Grand Canyon.” We took a train. “There is an entry fee per vehicle.” We took a bus. “Sunset Crater and Wupatki National Monument are on the same route.” We didn’t go. Take…
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. – Richard Bach Over forty years ago, together we saved the Portland Indoor track meet. I had Nike and he had a hammer and a saw and paint. Jose built the beautiful…
I don’t go out much because everybody pisses me off. Tried to be nice to people once but it didn’t feel right. I didn’t enjoy it. He was mumbling to himself, inaudibly he hoped. The folks in Arizona are much friendlier than the average Floridian. Hell, the phrase “the average Floridian” gave the old man…
First of all, I don’t like to travel. I like to be other places but I don’t like going there. The getting to wherever you want to be process, not fun so much anymore. Imagine a seventy-five inch arthritic hermit crammed into a coach seat for, well, far too long. Deep in the pain cave….
Have been ill as a canine since the moment I got here. Too sick to tourist though I did manage two family gatherings. Not my family. A best friend’s family. When you show up – unannounced – after twenty, thirty years, the surprise, the looks on their faces. One teenager is now a great-grandmother. How…
High up my list of impressive is Genny Nelson. I think of Genny as the Joan Benoit of community service. Indomitable. Here’s a Christmas feature from 1993-94. – JDW GENNY NELSON – A SPECIAL SISTER LEADS THE WAY OFF THE ROAD. He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker. But he who knows Him has…
Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good. ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera There are some days, Mom once told me, if you can avoid looking in the mirror, you wouldn’t know how old you really are. She was heavily medicated. Some days are older than other…