A black man might be our next president.
A dream lingers on, bound for sweet fulfillment.
Four years on, wedded love is evident.
I wonder, is this what Jesus meant?

I wasn’t really enthralled by the Chinese showboating these last few weeks. It all seemed like a distraction from the world-as-know-it-is. All this talk about the games being “about the athletes” is bullshit too, because there is clearly a lot of national ego on the line in any of these games, else we could scrap […]

The mournful elegy, molto adagio
Speaking out of the deepest grief and confusion
Too sad for words, the strings must weep in their stead
The bittersweet taste of Pyhrric victory
The heave and sigh of life itself
Deeper now, higher now, and back around
A slow marching band playing almost silently until the fortissimo-forte
Teetering at the crest of the ethereal arch
A […]

I don’t know what it is, but in my little corner of the food industry, there are a great many southpaw lefties like myself. Cook and warehouser alike, there are a goodly number of us. I have never seen more lefties in my daily comings and goings. Maybe it is the creative aspect of […]

So this week, I was dispatched to deliver a pound of thyme to Croce’s restaurant. It was delivered in a BOX of all things! Imagine that, a BOX! Lordy, what is the world coming to?

Yawn. I saw four Lamborghini cars today. Either that or I saw one black one and a yellow one on three occasions in different parts of town. In 1985, I would have shot a load at the sight of such a thing. Apparently, some people still have the same response, or the closest response allowable […]

Here is how I got to and from church today. The church is about 15 miles away and I didn’t want to drive, since that is all I do all week anyway. I was trying to improve upon a similar trip back in January, but planned to use my bike and trolley. The universe had […]