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Let sleeping dogs lie. Let sleeping dogs prevaricate. Let sleeping dogs distribute their deceptions. Let sleeping dogs dish out dishonesty the way politicians deal in distortion. Let sleeping dogs traffic in tall tales while wagging their tails. But why do sleeping dogs get all the glory? … Continue reading →

Sanguine. How often do you hear people use that word in conversation? Yeah, I don’t hear it often, either. But I wish we would. Would that a larger proportion of the population sought out more expansive vocabularies. Would that more … Continue reading →

Who doesn’t get excited about shopping for toilets? I mean, what could be more riveting than talking about flush capacity, gallons per flush, blah, blah, blah? I want to remodel the bathroom. My wife simply wants to replace the toilet. … Continue reading →

Using rational arguments to counter positions based solely on emotion is possible, but the undertaking is fraught with frustration, like eating thin chicken broth with a salad fork. Both require discipline, time, and acceptance of almost imperceptible progress. But attacking the … Continue reading →

I sat in front of the television a while ago, watching a drama series about intrigue and politics in U.S. government. Sipping on a Canadian whiskey and munching on my post-dinner snack of Canadian wild-caught herring in wine sauce, I wondered … Continue reading →

It’s just after three in the morning and I can’t seem to sleep. Maybe it’s because I seem to have lost a crown on my root-canal tooth. What does one do in such a situation? What else but look at … Continue reading →

This is it, post number 2100. Okay, now that the celebration is over, let me get right to the work at hand. Salt and sugar look damn near identical. I know this for many reasons, but let me recount the most recent event … Continue reading →

Right wing president elected On inauguration day, just hour after inauguration, one or more “accidents” kills new president, vice president, speaker of the house, and other Republicans in line for presidency. At the same time, the Republican majority senate suffers … Continue reading →

If you are reading this, you must know I love you. You are among a tiny, almost nonexistent, band of people who find my words valuable or, at least, not intolerably offensive. I write this blog to free my brain … Continue reading →

Win or lose, an emphatic obligation to engage in mass preemptive euthanasia becomes more apparent with each rising sun. Poisoning the water supply in key conservative districts as a means of correcting the abuses of gerrymandering. Explorations into the potential mental health … Continue reading →

We have a house guest, so I cannot go into the guest bedroom as usual to sit and cogitate and scheme. Instead, I must sit here in what I call the sky room, the room with monstrous windows that, when … Continue reading →

It’s hard to believe, but today marks my sixty-third consecutive party-free Halloween. That’s right. I’ve never in my life attended a Halloween party. At least not in my adult life. And probably not even in my childhood. It’s not that I … Continue reading →

Yesterday, my wife and I got involved in some gunplay. We went to a shooting range about ten miles from the house and fired a variety of weapons: 9mm Glock, a shotgun, and I fired an M4 carbine, though my wife … Continue reading →

This afternoon, after missing an author’s presentation at the community library due to uncooperative time and distance, I arrived home to continue yesterday afternoon’s endeavor: painting a ceramic bust I made in my sculpture class. I bisque fired the monster … Continue reading →

My first visit to Germany is a bit of a blur. I traveled there on a “fam trip.” That’s a euphemism for “bribe.” A familiarization tour is a means by which the hospitality industry attempts to bribe people with the power … Continue reading →

Bloody insomnia! I tried a new tactic last night, getting to bed very early (before 9 pm), figuring I might be able to get more sleep if I gave myself more time to sleep. You know, if I planned to … Continue reading →

Take responsibility for undertaking a task and it’s bound to happen: someone—who could have taken on the task but did not—will offer criticism about how the job was done. The criticism is not always blunt and forceful; sometimes, it’s hidden beneath faint … Continue reading →

Last night, the inaugural HSV Open Mic Night took place. I think the audience, numbering about seventy, was happy with it. I am glad I had friends who agreed to perform: poetry, story-telling, reading short stories, and reading memoirs. And, I … Continue reading →

Softer. Gentler. More fully engaged. Focused on positivity. Repelled by gratuitous negativity. Disciplined. Decisive. Inspired. Generous. Forgiving. Courageous. Thoughtful. Wishful.

If we were honest with ourselves, we would admit that our lives are fictions, narrative yarns we spin from experiences as we see them, not necessarily as they are. We write the stories of our lives on the fly, stitching together the … Continue reading →

It’s ten minutes shy of four in the morning and I’m scrambling to prepare to drive to the airport. Mi esposa hermosa is off, in just a while, to visit her childhood friends for a two-day gathering in Charleston, South … Continue reading →

Technology is a powerful tool that, if one is not careful, can deliver an emotional roller-coaster. The capabilities delivered through technology can, if one lets them, dig holes in one’s psyche. I have a specific example in mind. The platform … Continue reading →

Last night, I posted the following statement on Facebook: People who claim they will not vote because the choices do not suit them are cowards. Their moral high ground is freakish bullshit. They have no compassion; they have an inability … Continue reading →

The oxygen is gone from the air. I am inhaling the vapors of scorched sensibilities and charred civility. A poor excuse for a man is dousing rocket fuel accelerant on every shred of decent society, and then spraying the world with a flamethrower. … Continue reading →

It was two fifty-five in the afternoon on Sunday, December 29, 2013.  I was sipping my second shot of Maker’s Mark.  That was not my usual practice.  Typically, I would not have had any Maker’s Mark, much less be on my second shot, at … Continue reading →