by admin | Feb 15, 2012 | Life Lessons
As I’ve mentioned before, I was born with the family worry gene. My mother is an Olympic level contender in this regard, able to conjure up nearly any doomsday scenario on the fly, adding “What Ifs” until your bright idea withers and dies on the vine...
by admin | Feb 14, 2012 | Culture
Like everyone else in this land of ours, I get a bad case of VD once a year. I guess I’m just not being careful about how I maintain my relationships and I get a little sloppy now and then. I know that in this day and age, I should be exercising the proper...
by admin | Feb 13, 2012 | Politics
I’ve never made much of a secret that I love a good bar. Not any bar, mind you. For instance, I don’t like an upscale martini kind of bar with all the customers sucking down top shelf martinis. There’s nothing wrong with a place like that. It’s...
by admin | Feb 10, 2012 | Defies Description
I have been having a lot of trouble sleeping lately. I assume it’s the old life in a state of flux thing again. Yes, once again, I am in a state of flux, but at least this time it’s not because an ex-whatever is giving me the old heave-ho. Change is...
by admin | Feb 9, 2012 | Life Lessons
As some of you know, I’ve been on something of a junket for the past 17 days. A 10 day trip to Washington State became a longer trip than anticipated, for some reasons that I would rather not disclose, but suffice it to say I was exploring revenue generating...
by admin | Feb 8, 2012 | School Daze, Working Daze
When I was a kid I enjoyed shooting pictures with my camera. My first love was a Kodak camera, one that required you to thread your own film onto the spools. Then came along the Instamatic lines, which had the convenient cartridges so you couldn’t make the...
by admin | Feb 7, 2012 | Culture
Many years ago, I went to see a band called the Landsharks in concert. I loved Jimmy Buffett music a lot at the time, and had been sucked into the Parrothead vortex of grass skirts, blended drinks and palm trees. When I found out the band was coming to town, I was...
by admin | Feb 6, 2012 | Politics
Dark days are ahead for the Republican Party. Sorry, but not a single candidate being fielded jazzes the Independents of this country, the people who actually put a president in the office. First, let me say that I feel your pain. As an Independent, I faced an almost...
by admin | Feb 2, 2012 | Life Lessons
I try not to live life with much regret. I don’t want to be one of those people who are a lying in their death bed, the bright light drawing them away from their earthly body, gasping for air in order to utter their last thoughts. It’s just not me. In...
by admin | Feb 1, 2012 | Defies Description
You have to love Seattle. Some parts of it have never moved on beyond the hippy era, including all of Fremont, parts of Capital Hill and definitely Baylonia. No, that’s not an unknown neighborhood tucked away in the corners somewhere. It’s a woman. A...
