Month: August 2019

Everything I read this morning was about poop. I mean it. Somehow or another, I’ve got poop all over my news feeds, and there isn’t a thing I can do about it. I am owning the poop emoticon today. Here’s

Hey. You people, you. Can’t find my Human Polly tonight. I call her Tweedle, because my name is Ollie and her’s should be Tweedle. Not Polly. We sound too much alike. It confuses me. It confuses her too. She’s always

I like to look at maps. Not for any particular purpose. Just to look and see things that I may not have known before. Like the exact spot where Kathmandu resides. Geography seems to elude certain people. I love those

Pickles are just a bunch of sad cucumbers, who went out for a couple of shots of vinegar one night, and came back home, completely, and utterly soused. Yes. Pickled. You can smell it on their breath, as soon as

Plain. That’s what I am. At least in the way of taste. Disclaimer. I will try anything when it comes to food. I have ordered “meat dish” in a Pub in Amsterdam, after a friend dared me. He had asked

There’s a lot going on in the world these days. The stress of things — the politics, the environment, the violence, the domestic terrorism. All of this can have the ability to topple our balance. Any of it can bump

I tried to think about something light-hearted. But all I could come up with was Diphtheria. Yep. Diphtheria. We don’t hear much about it these day. I thought about it this morning because I was reading a little piece on

I don’t want to write about this again, but I can’t think of much else. Today. Here in Ohio, it happened again. Another mass shooting, this one in my hometown of Dayton, Ohio. Ten people dead, and 27 injured. It

Here’s a free thought. Today is Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi’s birthday. Born in Colmar, France on August 2, 1834. It was a Saturday, just for the record. When he was 44 years old, he designed the Statue of Liberty to mark the