William Hardy

  Next week I am headed back to Lompoc for an appointment with the chiropractor.  Every five years or so I get a pain in my back.   I can nurse it along, and it will recover in 30 to 45 days, or I can go to Dr. Gene Pritchett and voilà, I recover in three … Read moreA Quacker a Day . . .

No one knows what tomorrow will bring.  Tomorrow, really, is only a concept.  Today is the only thing that ever exists.  And, we all live our daily existence as it is, the hard realities bounded by the matter of the universe.  It is on this level that we all participate.   It only moves at … Read moreToday is Always Today

Longer wispy blond hair.  It blew in the wind. He was on his way to the concert at the Great Lawn in Central Park.  It was next to Turtle Pond that he would meet her.  She was dark and curly haired with a streak of revolution in her soul as she met him near the … Read moreSeptember 19, 1981

The train station at Forbach was wet.  The rain trailed down the concrete waiting area as the cold wind swirled.   He thought he could stop the devastation that was coming.  The acid that had been poured on the rail linkages were doing their work . . melting the once-strong steel into puddles of metal.  … Read moreTicket to Ride

When I was younger I was talking with a man from Chile.  He said that his father was very proud that he was able to buy a car.  He had worked for three years walking to and from work saving up the $28,000 necessary to buy the car.  There were no automobile loans in Chile.  … Read moreAmortizing $84,000 Over Forty Years!

In the 80’s I became aware of a behavioral study done on humans,  one part of which studied queuing behaviors.  They found that people objected if someone tried to cut in line.  However, if someone asked to go to the head of the line, and had a reason for doing so, they were always allowed … Read moreThey Reticulated My Boo Boo

I was watching bits and pieces of the Impeachment testimony yesterday.  They were fascinating, but who has the time to sit in front of the TV for 6 hours for weeks on end?  The facts are evident.  President Trump tried to extort a foreign government to influence the next US election and his attitude, through … Read moreThe Jury Is Still Out

  Either you jump off a cliff willingly or it’s inadvertent.   Inadvertent jumping.  That’s bad and should be avoided at all cost.  I have done this on occasion and am glad I am still alive to talk about it.  I dived into the water at Hanauma Bay when I was 15, vainly trying to … Read moreDumb As A Sack of Hammers

I have a problem. Well, to be more precise, many problems. But, I will leave that discussion for another day. The problem I want to discuss today is with people who answer the phone and appear to be dead. Yes, dead. They are lifeless and their voices reflect the fact that they may be living … Read moreReally, How Hard Can It Be?

  She had chartreuse streaks in her hair.  A brown, camouflage jacket which obscured a dirty brown blouse, appropriate for a desk clerk in Easley.  Her fingernails were partially covered with silver sparkles, faded in places, and broken and chipped in other places.   Her blue eyes projected a shade of boredom uncommon in a … Read moreEasley Quality Inn