You Better Smile One day this week, while browsing a real newspaper – and I really love the smell and feel of real newspapers – I came across and article that made me think. It was about several school systems who were starting programs to put cameras on school principals so as to improve the interaction between students… Read More »
Summer in the City The thready fingers of heat are already rising from the city’s concrete soul. Another vapid, sullen, pedestrian summer morning awakens. Dawn brings with it, dreary, dull, oppressive heat; just another smothering, infant, summer day. It is already too hot to move and too muggy to breathe. I look at the tired trees through a dirty, streaked… Read More »
“Growing” Old The other day, I decided to move the logs I had toted from Heaven knows where to the garden that I painstakingly laid out decades ago. The logs were heavy. They were much heavier taking them out than they were putting them in. I’d like to say they were water-logged and really heavier, but the fact… Read More »
Circles A circle has no beginning and no end. Our world, our solar system, our universe, even life itself, are all about circles. The moon circles the earth, the earth circles the sun, the sun circles the center of the Milky Way and the Milky Way circles the center of the universe. Everything in circles. It’s late spring,… Read More »
Popcan George I never knew his name until I read his obituary. You will think I’m shallow when you read this. You are probably right. The man has been a joke of sorts in our town since I can remember. I used to see Pop-can George riding his bike around town. He’d always have three or four plastic… Read More »
Some Food for Thought Yesterday I took a walk. My friend David walked around his domicile in Georgia and I through the Ohio countryside. Although we’re old, we are technologically hip. We talked on our cell phones for a little while as we walked. I walked a couple of miles, David walked five. Or so he says. If… Read More »