Category: Personal

That's my father-in-law Jim with our youngest (and his youngest grandchild) just a few weeks ago, Easter Sunday. This evening he's hours from death in Delaware hospital. My wife...

I seem to be falling into a pattern of my poems -- serious one day, humorous the next. That means that this one ought to be serious again. This …

Since Kevin hasn't fired me after the first poem, and I don't see any rampaging mobs with pitchforks outside my window (maybe I oughta doublecheck... yup, still clear), I …

Oh, what the hell. Like a couple commenters said, it's not like I get paid for this or anything, and I've always felt I have a target audience of …

Of late, I've been worried I might start "burning out" on blogging. My main focus has been on politics, and I certainly haven't given up on that (Lord knows …

There have been a few times of late when I've been reluctant to recommend other blogs because they, in my opinion, are a bit too free tossing around profanities. …

I just woke up from a very strange dream. I was watching the "Duel of Wits" scene from "The Princess Bride," but in this version, Jennifer Aniston (as her …

I've always been a voracious reader. When I was in the 3rd grade, my teacher loaned me a book that I have loved to this day. At least once …

A humble virus has done what my critics and detractors have not been able to do: They have laid me low and kept me from blogging. I have several …

No, despite numerous pleas and fervent wishes, I have NOT vanished from the face of the earth. Due technical issues not within my control (yet still my own dang …