Married to someone with a childhood so terrible, he blocked it out for years.

      It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. ~Henry David Thoreau   Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. ~Anton Chekhov       I’d like to discuss something [...]

      A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie. ~Desiderius Erasmus Welcome back to a new chapter of Exploring Morality. In this chapter we will be discussing truth, lies, and deception. A complex subject full of grey areas. Again I will try to keep [...]

We are the United States of Shallow Americans. We obsess over the nuance in a phrase or a word and are distracted by the most inane things, thus allowing the sheisters and idealogues, whom we reckon good enough to govern us, free rein to rape and pillage our way of [...]

Today is Father’s day and I wish to honor my father, Gene, who left this world 9 years ago at the age of 75. My father was not perfect, by no means, but I have come to realize, what an awesome man he really was and how lucky my siblings [...]

This weekend something happened in my life  that I was NOT prepared for; didn’t expect and has shaken some of my beliefs to the very core and at the same time reinforced other beliefs. This weekend my family, friends and I were intimately reacquainted and were REMINDED about the fragility, [...]

A little nugget of Anglo-Irish history.

Thanks to AlphaBitch, a wonderful gift was sent to me through an email this week, it brought tears of joy to my eyes, it healed a gaping hole in my heart and soul, it has become a treasure to me, the kind words expressed will always remain with me, I [...]

As landmark wedding anniversaries arise, the husbands’ thoughts may turn nostalgically to the amount of hair they had in their wedding photos, the lovingly polished shotgun in the bride’s father’s hands during the vows or how high the Chicken Cordon Bleu at the reception bounced if you threw it really [...]

That word doesn’t mean what you think it means. But that’s okay, it can’t be offended by you, because it’s dead.

When I went to find my sister’s grave, I didn’t expect tot get a lesson in my family’s dysfunction.

Well, I missed Valentine’s Day by a bit, but here is some poetry and artwork of mine on the theme of eternal love. More specifically, both song and image were inspired by an archeological discovery a few years back in Italy, wonderfully ironically not far from the village where Romeo [...]

Breaking up with a blog site is hard to do.

Dazed, I turned only to see said chorus approaching, grinning, with one of them rapping the words “Slam Slam Cinderella.” To add to the surreal quality of the event: I didn’t feel humiliated.

Confronted with writing a worthy post, this is me above. So I just rolled up my sleeves for a person I’ve grown to respect and love. I’m in and out fighting time zones across the miles, When I login, there you are, and I’m all smiles. Your energy and enthusiasm [...]

Three phases of my life (so far) as represented by the foods I ate.

I am writing this post to fulfill a promise I made to Kes awhile ago, but I think it will be interesting to a few.  Sometime back in the early 1980′s I was sitting in my office chatting with an employee when I got a Code 10 call.  A code 10 [...]

Happy Fathers Day, Dad. The day is here.  What memories do you have of this day?  Do you remember a kindness that you and your father shared?  A secret you cherished, one your siblings did not know?  An ice cream cone he bought you?  Playing catch?  Your Dad meeting your [...]

The Huffington Post has gone Vegas. It has instituted a clever way to have commenters engage in what can only be seen as a form of slot machine gambling.  I noticed this  after learning HP had started some kind of  “badges” system.  I visited the site and saw a curious [...]

I came across a site that contained a test Harvard created for a study which tries to measure your conscious and even subconscious biases. The have bias tests for race like black and white, ethnicity, religiosity, gender preference, sexuality, disability, age, weight, weapons and ever your preference towards President Obama. [...]

As the title alludes to, I believe that the most constructive path in blogging is Zen-like, IMO, it is best and most considerate to accept the opinions and blogging of colleagues as being what they are and never take them personally. And I like to keep my motorcycle running too. [...]

This morning as I was watching last night’s Craig Ferguson Show that we tape since we can’t stay up that late, his monologue struck a chord with me. He stated that he’s been feeling rather depressed lately, and I have to admit that so have I, and I wonder if [...]

Well, it’s that time of year when most of us reflect on the past twelve months, and make resolutions for the next year. If you’re typical, most of the resolutions made will be broken in the first week of the New Year, and some will be broken before the morning [...]

This morning my partner’s mom came to our room to ask me about something. She told me that my would-be brother-in-law just got an email that says the White House refused to let any ornaments on the tree that were Christian, but would allow ornaments with Muslim themes. Do the [...]

On Christmas Eve, we have finally seen the passage of a bill that has pried open the previously locked down room of recognizing public health care as a human right.  It was done without the support of one single vote from the right. To me, that is not nearly so [...]