Blue Moon Wayne

The worse mass shooting in American history. This is a good day to leave the television off, so I'm here, looking to the east as I normally do when there is a National tragedy like this. I'm listening to a Rock and Roll legend, Tom Petty. Our news is so unreliable now that we don't…

Fake. It's the new real. I remember the old real. I miss the old real more than I can ever make anyone understand, not because it may never return, but because maybe it was never here. I envy all of those who are so certain because I was once in your camp. ws

This is our first trip back to DC since January 2001 and we live in a much different country now than the last time we were here. I am much different. I have spent plenty of blogging time discussing politics, and now is not the time, but I will say this... It is hard to…

Yesterday was a sad day for me, not because of anything other than the realization that a line had been crossed that could never be made right again. I don't know how many viewers the NFL will lose, maybe many or maybe not very many at all. They have lost me. I am done. The…

There are still a few of them around but it's not the same. When I was young they were everywhere,  now it's like searching for the Holy Grail in that there will be a rumor of one being open somewhere but when I make the trek there, I find out that it closed two years…

Alright, it's just me, and I haven't written any quatrains or anything, and I don't spend late nights staring into anything but maybe a bottle of beer or a sniffer of my favorite bourbon, but there are a few things that I can see clearly, and I am willing to share those insights with you…

Arlington National Cemetery is a very sobering place. The Tomb of The Unknown Soldier and the changing of the guard. The eternal flame at the grave of President Kennedy, just down the hill from the home of Robert E Lee. Even as we are on a collision course with revisionist history, much on this side…

It doesn't matter what the official last day of summer is. We all know when that last day is, Labor Day. The day when the pools close. The apex, except when you are retired, there is no apex. Structure is what you make it. Nothing cryptic in this. Life is structured until it isn't. I…

I'm having a wonderful chat with my favorite seven year old the other day and we are discussing his favorite pastime, video games. Me: Do you guys talk about video games at school? Him: Yes, during recess. Me: What else do you do at recess? Him: I don't know. Me: Do you play Cowboys and…

Where we live, I'm finding out, is an excellent place to drop off  an unwanted pet. Two Saturday's ago, we are watching TV at night time and heard a noise on the back porch. Assuming a raccoon had come down out of the woods, I grabbed my flashlight and looked around but didn't see anything. The…