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My Favorite Songs — Classic Rock Edition

I started thinking about this post a few weeks ago and began putting together a list as different songs came to me. I have no doubt that I could add many more songs to the list, but this is it for now. My one rule was that I could only pick one song per artist. […]

A Trazadone Dream

Maybe I’ll just turn this blog into a recap of my nightly Trazadone dreams. It is so odd how I dream now and remember the dreams, when I rarely remember my dreams when I’m not taking Trazadone. Anybody out there take Trazadone and have the same experience? One of the problem with these dreams, though, […]

A New Book Coming

I’ve spent much of this year putting together an anthology that features 10 other writers (and myself). Short stories and flash fiction. Some fiction. Some non-fiction. All of the stories have to include a veteran. Hence the title of the anthology. There are tributes to fathers who served. Speculative and futuristic tales. A story about […]

More Baseball Thoughts

A lifelong Giants fan, I’ve got myself stuck in a cesspool of other Giants fans on Twitter. One of the things I’ve seen more and more of this summer are those fans tweeting about minor league prospects. How excited they are at how some of those prospects are doing. One Twitter account gives daily updates […]

Trazadone Dreams

With an upcoming trip across the big blue sea, I’m going back to Trazadone for awhile. Recreational cannabis is not allowed where I’m going, so I won’t be taking my gummies. I made the switch three nights ago. First night, I had a very vivid dream. I was walking around in public in just a […]

Scenes from Tahoe

A Book I’m Reading

After Willie Mays passed away, I decided I wanted to read a biography about him. I got 24 by John Shea. It is more than a biography because Shea lets Mays speak frequently through every chapter regarding the events covered by each of the 24 chapters. So, it is more of a biography/autobiography. If you […]

America Is A Gun — Brian Bilston

A friend shared this with me. America Is A Gun England is a cup of tea. France, a wheel of ripened brie. Greece, a short, square olive tree. America is a gun. Brazil is football on the sand. Argentina, Maradona’s hand. Germany, an oompah band. America is a gun. Holland is a wooden shoe. Hungary, […]

WordPress Has Issues

I can no longer access anything in WordPress on my Chromebook (it hasn’t worked on my Mac for months). The bare bones of the WP Dashboard is on the screen, but nothing is accessible. So … until that gets fixed, I won’t be posting much here.

This and That

Herewith, an update post… A month ago, I wrote about my return to bowling. I wasn’t happy then and was wondering if I would get back to where I once was. I’m happy to report that things have improved. After the first week of the league, my average was 135. In the four weeks since, […]