Archive for the ‘Musings’ Category

• Am I out of touch with reality?

  Monday, August 9th, 2010

  I am single and for the most part love it. I don’t have to answer to anyone. When the little brown truck comes to the door I don’t have to answer to anyone about how much I spent. Or when I go to look for socks in the drawer where they belong, I know they [...]

• Stupid is as stupid does

  Monday, June 21st, 2010

  People in my age group have an excuse that we have not lived with computers all our lives. But a twenty-four year old should have known better. What might you ask am I talking about? Well friends, one of the mascots for the Pittsburgh Pirates in what I am sure was frustration because his team [...]

• What really makes a father?

  Sunday, June 20th, 2010

  On this day when we celebrate Father’s day, some may wonder what makes a good dad. At different times of our lives the answer may be varied as our own life experiences shape us. At this late stage of my life when I have raised my own kids, I have a deep feeling of love [...]

• No good deed goes unpunished

  Thursday, June 17th, 2010

  I am sure that when Dan Coyne donated his kidney to Myra de la Vega, a single parent he hardly knew, he never expected the fall out he has gotten.   Coyne is a teacher in Evanston Ill. and the people there have declared him a hero. The school there even had a day specially [...]

• Enough is enough

  Friday, June 4th, 2010

  In my sixty plus years the absurdity of life has struck me in the worse way. Because people choose to champion the most ridiculous causes. I know they think they have a stalwart cause, but enough is a enough! It is again the time of the year when young people around the country head off [...]