It’s not an ideology. I say it’s propaganda. It certainly looks that way when I take a gander. They love guns and are promoting lies. They’re projecting conspiracies right before our eyes. They support hatefulness and that ain’t no joke. Constantly saying everything is woke. They clamour for their religion…

There’s an innocence in my dog’s eyes. No pretence. No eyebrows to raise in doubt. There’s a passion in my dog’s eyes. No wounded-pet lies to conceal. No guise to veil. There’s a trust in my dog’s eyes. No fear of reprisal. No cross to bare. I see an eagerness…

Listen to yourselves, you’re in need of feedback. You’re leveraging your words and disregarding facts. I listen to you often and for far too long. You’re reusing words as if they were in a song. What happened to the days that when someone said woke. It meant someone was racially…

Don’t miss these telltale signs that you are being cheated on by your significant other. I’m sure something is up You can’t look me in the eye. Is it something that I said? Have you told a lie? Something is up. You’ve changed the way you dress. You spend time in the mirror. You used to do it…

It was Friday night. We headed west to a city outside of Chicago, called Skokie. The restaurant we were going to was on Dempster Street. We arrived at a good hour. There were many empty tables. After 15 minutes, it seemed odd we were still waiting to be seated. Henry…

We were meeting friends for our monthly dinner. It was how we kept in touch with old classmates. There was a new face at the table that night. He was the houseguest of one of our friends. He was relocating from the coast. We were happy to see each other…

How I get a windfall from Social Security. Windfalls are hard to come by. The average person has no expectations for one. Most don’t get a company bonus. There’s no commission check, and few hit the lottery. Stimulus checks during the pandemic were the first windfall of any kind many people had ever received. By voluntarily having federal…

Quick. Enticing. Dangerous. I had them once. I prepared them as directed. I took a bite and it burned the hell out of me. My tongue. My lips. And worse, the roof of my mouth was inflamed. They should come with a warning label. I haven’t had one since. It…

In the early days of my electronic exploits, I could always count on Radio Shack to provide an answer. They had a coupler for everything. And a battery for anything you brought in. There were cables dangling and flashlights of every shape and color. Radio Shacks thrived before there were…