Month: January 2020

Last night, in the middle of the night, I woke up to my alien cat, Fiona,  nuzzling my nose.  Then she licked my chin and nuzzled my nose again.   I didn’t know if that meant something to other aliens.  Perhaps this was a signal of some kind!  Perhaps, there is a picture out there … Read moreAlien Purring

He reached down to pick up the glass of water.   The circular waves on the surface came from the flimsy table on which it was sitting.  The table was set beside him for relief as he spoke to the southern audience, and the waves came from the vibrations . . and agitation of the audience. … Read moreBack To Reality

Kimia Alizadeh, a medalist in Taekwando at the 2016 Olympics, has defected to a currently unbeknownst western country.  She was escaping the tyranny of the Iranian regime, well-understood to be brutal to their population and, especially, to women.   Even though I rail against the backward forces in this country, headed up by the Trumps, … Read moreA Kick in the Pants

It seems that if someone is working for another government and they are making plans to attack a person or an embassy of the United States, we are authorized to kill them, even if there was no actual proof of this and the people behind the allegations are, at least occasionally, delusional.   That would … Read moreLob One Over For The Gipper

Let’s meet In Lyon on a summer’s night When the air is warm and the stars are bright   Let’s meet in Paris along the Seine At Canal St. Martin where we hid from the rain On the Elysée when leaves were red And the bite in the air hid thoughts unsaid   I remember … Read moreLet’s Meet In Lyon

Like every President before him, Donald Trump complains about the press.  The press is what keeps this a free country.  Otherwise, we would have a king instead of a President.  The difference is that the other Presidents recognized the right of the press to report the truth . . not so with Mr. Trump.   … Read moreFrog Legs Anyone?

In the development of mechanisms to manage the growth of humanity . . the development of governments . . we have stumbled into all kinds of problems.  But, we have been resilient and have learned from the past and tend not to make the same errors over and over again.  It is incumbent on the … Read moreRepeating the Past Because We Can’t Learn From It

Coral colored crushed granite covered the small hills and valleys around the lake.  It was on the fifth, sixth and seventh holes where the granite descended into the lake, which cascaded into a small stream and then into a second pool, which looked like an estuary, but, in reality, was man’s attempt to create a … Read moreTilting At Windmills

In the 1980’s, I read about a Princeton Study on the financial net worth of people who physically wrote out their goals every year.  The results were startling.   The people who graduated from Princeton were tracked for twenty years.  Three percent of the graduates wrote out their goals and were worth, after 20 years, … Read moreNew Year’s Resolution, I Won’t Lie