Month: February 2016

Certain things in life are…. well… uncertain. You just never know.  As they say.  The weather is one of those uncertainties…. for sure.   (Geez, I sound like one big Oxymoron tonight.) But truthfully, you can’t really ever know what the

It is kind of weird being here, in the Caribbean, whilst the Super Bowl is taking place.  I start to write this… as the game approaches the fourth quarter. I am pulling for the Broncos, but more succinctly, for Peyton

Right now, I am probably a little bit further south than the most of you.  I sit on a little island in the middle of the Caribbean.  Well.  Not like shipwrecked or anything.  More like the Grand Cayman Island.  With

  This is a photo of my family. But look. Apparently, my sister Sue dated Art Garfunkel at some point. And he is holding our cat, who was developmentally delayed… in the brain. That cat could only walk backwards, and

Maurice White died today. For those of you who don’t know, Maurice White was the founder of the remarkable band called Earth, Wind and Fire. And those guys could make music. I can remember hearing my first Earth, Wind, and

You know. It is those pesky corners of my mind.  The ones with the misty water-colored memories. Sometimes, I see these old photos and it just makes me think so long, and so hard about things. Scanning the old family

This was quite a day on several different levels.  Let’s just take it apart at the most publicized event. As we all know.  Today was good old Ground Hog Day.  Why do we do this people?  It is pointless, really. 

I would love to write about the Iowa Caucuses.  But I won’t.  I know this is another big 50-50 split in the nation.  So, I don’t want to hack anyone off, one way or the other. But I will ask

When I was little, really little, we had two pet parakeets.  Their names were Pretty Boy and Billy.  I don’t know when we got these birds or how they came about.  But I really liked them. They lived in a