Month: August 2018

I used my GPS today. My very own Global Positioning Software. We don’t think too much about our GPS Systems when we use them. We just count on them to work. It is a pretty nifty deal though, when it

  I wrote a piece about Op-Eds this morning. An Op-Ed about Op-Eds. But then, I decided not to post it here this evening.  Yeah, it’s dust. That is the way of the Polly Brain. I am an over-thinker. And

He’d fly through the air with the greatest of ease,That daring young man on the flying trapeze. I haven’t heard that song in a long time. But that is the only line I knew. It was written by George Leybourne.

I wasn’t going to write about birthdays for a while. It seems like I have mentioned quite a few in the weeks past. But here it is, August 18, and the birthday list throws out two big whoppers on the

  We are getting our hardwood floors refinished. We knew it would be messy. Wait. We THOUGHT we KNEW it would be messy. But this, is a big, big messy. We built this house. Well. People with tools built it.

Sometimes, we make bad choices. And sometimes, the choices aren’t really ours. The “bad choice thing” can happen anywhere, anytime, really. Say you are standing in line at the grocery store. And right beside you are the endless bunkbeds of

Friends sure are something.  And there are all sorts. As Mr. Webster puts it, a friend is “a person whom one knows and with whom one has a bond of mutual affection.” That’s about right, I’d say. A companion, a

Steve Martin. Stand up comedian, actor, author, musician. He always brings a smile to my face. And. Today is his birthday. He turned 73 years old when the clock struck 12:01. Our time, our measures of years. If he were

There are one billion trillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) stars in the observable universe.  Our sun is just ONE of those stars. You see? There is a bigger space out there. A WAY bigger space. Most days, the likes of us, go about

Today is a day, when smarty, crafty people roll out of bed, scratch their little noggins, and proclaim, “By golly. Today is the day.” Yes, I think. It is plainly in sight. This August 12th must be some sort of