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Life Lessons
An’ here I sit so patiently Waiting to find out what price You have to pay to get out of Going through all these things twice – Bob Dylan One might suspect that after decade upon decade spent meandering this fair Earth of ours, even a besotted toadstool might’ve acquired a nugget or two of what passes as wisdom, but then, that’s a hard thing [...]
Civility, senility, and the art of the turn signal
It was, in fact, a close call … for which we are very grateful. The on-coming car did not bother to indicate that a left turn was in its immediate future and also didn’t seem to mind that we were motoring straight ahead in the opposite direction. Age may have taken its toll on some functions, but hitting the brakes to avoid a crash is [...]
Animals in Love
For those attracted here by the prurient possibilities suggested by this headline, settle down. Unless something goes completely off the rails, we will not be discussing, reviewing, or analyzing some raucous Thursday night orgy organized and participated in by the neighborhood cauldron of bats, romp of otters, or prickle of porcupines, although I suppose if it’s an orgy you have in mind, you could do [...]
Hello in there…among other New Year resolutions
Ah, the New Year. New beginnings. New resolutions. New ads on television replacing the mind-numbing political rants which had blessedly been replaced by fake snow, jingle bells, and well-dressed couples with darling “central casting” children celebrating the arrival of their new bow-festooned Christmas automobiles. Now we’re down to a devastating cycle of ads for pills, potions, and injectables that will do everything from restoring our [...]