You Ate What?

We have become a society of needy incompetent adults, that will fight for the validity of every dumb idea that pops into our heads, and at the same time refuse responsibility for acting out on any of those ideas. Don't tell me how to live my life, but I'm holding you responsible for protecting me…

This Ain’t Us.

They should have named it a little more appropriately because all of us who have lost a love one could tell a story like this if we had a soundtrack playing in the background and we cut back and forth between the present and past memories. Listen, I know who the us is they are…

I Hate Ticks.

Alpha-gal. I know hate is such a strong word. One of my most distant  memories that is food related is of eating a white castle and thinking that it was the greatest thing in the world. I could eat a million of them... except I couldn't... even as an adult I could only eat a…

Rain

It could be the season. It could be the isolation caused by this wet, gloomy January day and the dreariness of it all. I don't know. Maybe you just can't be happy all the time, but whatever it is, today I am feeling my age. I am here, looking to the east, waiting for the…

The Wall

Something happened to Americans. Some say that we became soft, but I don't think so. I think that we have been lead astray. Was our will really that much stronger in the late seventeen hundreds? The vast majority of the population didn't even take part in the revolution. And what about the eighteen hundreds? Most…

Just Another Week.

I'm sitting here looking to the east and I've never felt more blessed than I do now, looking up the hill, and watching the melting snow, waiting for my pet deer to wander in for their afternoon meal. Nothing specific on my mind today but there are many pieces of things from here and there…

My last Sled Ride.

Perfect snow and an eager Wayne equal a fun sled ride, right up until I jump on to the sled, sink four inches into the snow and don't move. I reach back and push off hard... real hard, and on the second push, I pull something loose in my chest and shoulder, move about ten…