A Day in the Life and Other B.S.
Anecdotes about life and other tales
Sitting there in the family room strumming my guitar, enjoying the peace and quiet of an empty house on a Tuesday afternoon. My wife had just left to go somewhere with our daughter, and my dad was out with my sister, so other than the dogs, I was all alone and it felt pretty damn …
“Who are you? Who the hell are you?” The Who Yesterday was a beautiful summer day. I spent part of the day working in my backyard listening to some of the greatest music of all time, classic 60’s rock! Beatles, Doors, Buffalo Springfield, Who, Rolling Stones, Hendrix, etc, not really enjoying the work I was doing, but loving the …
There I was, sitting in my lounge chair outside my motorhome somewhere along the golden California coast, basking in the warm sun, wearing my very comfy big, baggy, Richard Nixon style shorts, my favorite old Hawaiian shirt and a cheap pair of slaps. I sat there leisurely reading the latest Dean Koontz novel on …
I’ve got this nasty little habit that’s gotten me into an awful lot of trouble in my lifetime, more than I care to remember. Now it’s nothing illegal, immoral or fattening, and violates no laws other than those of common sense, but it causes problems all the same. It has to do with my …
“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.” H. Norman Schwarzkopf American …
Have you ever wonder how different your life might be if one life event had turned out differently. For instance, what if I’d decided to go off to college right after high school instead of playing the local junior college game with my friends and wasting my time? How might that have worked out? How …
The world sure is a crazy place isn’t it? Seems like only yesterday newspaper headlines and top news stories on TV, radio and the internet blasted the Catholic Church for Her sex scandals, pedophile priests, the massive cover-up by Church officials including our own Cardinal Mahoney and of course the gigantic payouts to the victims of …
All the talk of the Conclave of Cardinals, the election of a new Pope, and the unending news coverage of this historic Vatican event have gotten me thinking about the Catholic Church, my relationship with her and why I still profess Catholicism. As I’ve mentioned before I was born and raised Catholic. Of course my relationship with …
Do you ever get the feeling that maybe man, in his infinite folly, has lost sight of his true purpose for living? Doesn’t it seem to you that many of us, in our quest to be the best have been consumed with some crazy, mad-dash, winner take all attitude, in which becoming king of the …
Children of the Forest Spirit of the Trees, What magic spell awakes you Whose wisdom makes you breath? On summer moonlit evenings I come to watch you dance Join in your rejoicing, Share in your romance. Great Guardian of the forest. Protector of the trees. Your magic home enchants me Let me be like the …