Life Before.

I’m sitting here and it’s almost 1:00. I should be in bed but I love this solitude. Tonight I am enjoying multiple pours of mostly bourbon and trolling TikTok. And I’m thinking of my generation. I know life before color tv, or uhf , or rockets into space. I’m before fm radio, or the Vietnam…

Carnal Wayne.

Carnal Wayne will pray for a conservative landslide today. Carnal Wayne will pray that these Godless liberal blasphemers be exposed for all to see. This version of Wayne will after some time has passed, forgive the name calling and lies, after some much needed reflection. Them, not me of course. Let them think about their…

Here we are.

Months ago I advised everyone to keep a diary. I said at that time that things were moving so quickly you wouldn’t be able to recall monumental things that were happening. That there wasn’t sufficient time to spend dwelling on anything current because it would quickly be replaced by the next monumental thing, and on…

Unburdened….

It’s Sunday afternoon and I’m watching the Lions play the Packers in the rain, while drinking an ice cold beer from the comfort of my recliner. Like many Americans all around this deeply divided country, just under the surface, there is an uneasiness about our future. I have an uneasiness about my future. Tuesday is…

The Prodigal’s Father.

A wasted life is sad beyond words. It’s never just one life affected, and we see it all around us don’t we? The destruction of a prodigal child and the impact on the family left behind is painful and sad, and sobering. There have been so many sermons about the prodigal son, and the faithful…

Reflections.

Little by little and day by day, life is whittling me slowly away. I didn’t know it early on, but now I understand, that time had turned me into another man. I endured many a rainy day, saving for a rainy day. You cannot become battle hardened without battles. When you have done all you…

Hurricane Helene.

September 26, 2024, this monster of a storm swallowed the Gulf of Mexico as it moved toward the Big Bend area of my state. It's huge fingers swept past my home three miles inland and flooded homes close to the beaches. With wind gusts of over seventy miles per hour, most of us breathed a…

Three Great Disappointments.

I carried a rope in my truck for years so I could save someone from quicksand. I have never in my long years of living ever needed to use pi r2. Not once, ever. I thought that when I got old I would get my shit together but as it turned out, I just became…

My Growing Pile of Last Times.

It’s not a physical pile of course. This pile clutters my mind. Nothing is properly stacked, or arranged by year, or event such as Christmas or Fourth of July, summer vacation or anything else that would organize my thoughts in a tidy pile. They are just there, and here, and under that thought over there.…

Undeniable Truth.

There is no good time to get bad news. There is no bad time to get good news either. The hardest thing that you will ever do is reconcile with someone you dislike. We treat politicians and political parties like athletes and sports teams now, and all cheating aside, winning is winning. When every single…