If You're Going My Way, I'll Walk With You

Disagreeable people looking for an argument.  Who needs it?

  When I was an undergraduate, I posed as a figure model for art classes, so I can empathize with this comic strip.  Funny thing is, if a...

Overheard:  "You win some, you lose some, and taxes take the rest."

When the world is too much, when nothing makes sense, my solace is music.  I lose myself in it, forgetting everything else. There is nothi...

Don't you remember how it was?

Hi, Wanda, It was nice to see you again.  It's hard to believe we haven't seen each other since we were passing through MK...

Have we lost the battle?  Did we fight?

            Well, I think...

“We have merely nodded to fear. Now we must shake its filthy hand.”     ~ Ernest K. Gann, Fate is the Hunter I've been thinking of ...

Happy days in Mukden. One of the most remarkable people I've ever met taught me Japanese flower arranging and Japanese culture in ...

Wars don't end. Every bullet leaves an exit wound.  Lives stop, dreams collapse, futures implode. “What are th...

Well, sure, in the long run we'll all be pushing up daisies so blah blah.  Old stuff.  Appealing to teen philosophers and assor...

When you've got a deadline  but just can't get your thoughts organized and the words don't flow,  this is how it feels....

Cheyenne Army Scouts led by Lt. E.W. Casey, December, 1890, during the Ghost Dance troubles. Cheyenne Scouts sketched by Frederick...

I've had a similar experience with both my mom and dad. Who hasn't, I suppose, but still it's a funny moment when you dis...

  A short story just a few pages long written by the English novelist John Buchan.  First published in the January-June,1910, issue of Blac...

A sweet but sad song from the 1950s. I can remember my grandmother listening to this song on her old floor model hi-fi record player.  I w...

Overheard: "The peer review system put both Socrates and Jesus to death."