Misfortune, rescue, & healing laughter — When my straight-laced sister would visit after having run off & married her fiancé’s best friend & set up housekeeping with him & his family in neighboring Canada across the Great Lake Erie, her visits home were joyous occasions. Our apartment having only 2 bedrooms meant I’d end up on…

Professions that once inspired by disseminating fresh ideas now censor with rules silly beyond belief. — Grammarly is a squawking parrot in writers’ nightmares. Logic has pretty clearly bitten the dust if this is considered some kind of guiding light. A 2nd Dark Age is descending on the world thanks to full-blown psychopaths like Trumpty-Dumbty, Putin, & other spit-for-brains “leaders”, but the lights are being extinguished…

It was a horrid shouting match with my closest friend. As she vented her anger, I saw fear, a terrified little girl, charged with the same panic the little boy inside me was experiencing — that we had both lost our dearest friend. Fortunately, our anger waned, our rational minds…

Violence is off the charts as booze washes away the brains What can be expected? Violence is so pandemic in the movies, video games, and news stories that reality has mixed with fantasy & desensitization to violence has developed in easily influenced youth. Not the intellectuals nor the talented debaters nor the writers on the school papers are the heroes, but…

its influence is insidious & spreading feverishly. What has been spiraling out of control & into violence in the U$ between people with different values has been on the table in Europe for some time now but has not received the media’s attention lately. It too has been ugly with Gay Pride parades disrupted & hate crimes…