I hate war. All it does is pile up dead bodies and line the rich and powerful's pockets. My feelings won’t matter though and neither will yours. War is coming.... You say we are already at war and I don’t disagree, but war is coming here. Your heart will be broken from the shear number…
Experts.
I remember. I remember believing what I was told. I remember believing everything I ever heard or saw on the nightly news. A half hour that was filled with video, along with commentary and experts. These experts were filled with both confidence and evidence, and along with a consensus of other like minded experts, sat above…
Uneasy Dread.
I spend a fair amount of time on social media. More and more I am seeing people discussing how they feel that something has changed, or something is coming. They can’t explain this feeling and they can’t shake it off. What validated many of these folks for me is that’s I also have these feelings…
Reflection.
It has been a busy week. We are currently unpacking boxes and doing all the things one does while moving. It has been twenty months since we were displaced and even though the address hasn't changed, the moving process is exactly the same. Stephanie, David and the boys have spent the week at Disney, and…
My thoughts on wealth, money, and guns.
Money isn’t real, and I know this because if it were real, they wouldn’t let us have it. Wealth on the other hand is real, and it is reserved for the privileged. Government printing of money is another way I know it’s not real. It’s an unreported tax on those with money, and it is…
Looking backward…
I was born eleven years after the end of World War Two. Growing up around my grandparents afforded me many stories about their lives and the things that they had seen and things that they had been told. Some stories were memorizing and some were boring, and some were terrifying to the point of staying…
Never Look Back.
In the spring of 2024 a drunk driver crashed into my car and my car did not survive the impact. I got out of my Jeep, walked around to where the damage was inflicted and never drove it another mile. I thought a lot of that car and thought I would miss it dearly. It…
Hidden Platform.
The dumbest people in America are those who are still proud Republicans. They believe we have a two party system. I don’t exactly believe that we have a uniparty either. I suppose it’s the best way to describe what we have, but it’s more than that. Each party has its platform, but neither party resembles…
Once we arrive at Finding Out.
I know someone who knows someone who has a second cousin that looks completely normal in every way, but has a secret life. They engage in something called LARPing. They call it LARPing, I call it pretending, and it’s a community of folks having the time of their lives. You can be anything from a…
Bad Paint.
We are nearing the end of our massive remodel in Southwest Florida, and we absolutely love love love every change and improvement we made…. Right up until around 3:45 yesterday. That’s when I returned home from an afternoon at the movies and saw the completed paint job on the exterior of our home. What we…