Alternate Reality: 42 Word Challenge

This is Deb’s bag, but since it is challenging, I’m going to risk debasing myself yet again. Time-traveling in the Jurassic era, I stepped on a butterfly and altered the future. I was worried what I’d come back to; but, in this alternate reality, the butterflies forgave me. It would be a utopia if not […]

Youth, and How to Run Screaming from it

Youth, they say, is wasted on the young… but, if you give it to the elderly, they’ll just break a hip trying to use it. After attending my granddaughter’s second birthday party (she’s fifty but has only had two actual parties), I’ve been thinking about youth. I don’t see myself as wanting my youth back… […]

Deb’s 42 Word Challenge (Subject: Satire)

Not sure of the quality of my entry. Deb knows that I hate working within a certain number of words… *** Reality Television: Proof that adult tantrums and back-biting are entertainment. The Ultimate Reality Show: You… watching a bunch of people who are watching you back. Or, we could just BE with other people… […]

What it Means to be a REAL Man

It means we will react violently if we feel insulted enough. Oddly enough, how insulted we feel is inversely proportional to how big and scary the guy insulting us is… It means that we will NEVER ask for directions, use a map or follow street signs. We navigate like our fathers did: By driving around […]

I Only Hire the BEST Random Thoughts

I consider myself a slave to fashion. I don’t mind so much having to keep up with what clothes are considered “in”; however, I do dislike the forced servitude and the lashings. I’d quit Twitter except I feel that I’m just THIS close to convincing the rest of the world to adopt my political views. […]