Category: BigDangDeal

My brother Ed.  He is so good at so very many things.  Lawnmower Man.  Baseball Agent.  Recreational Director.  Just look at the guy. He is visiting here this week, all the way from Seattle.  Home of the Space Needle and

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. The serenity.  The state of being calm and peaceful.  Untroubled. To accept the things I cannot change. This prayer.  It is a favorite.  In my mind, it is one

You don’t know Jack.  I think the full phrase is, “You don’t know Jack Shirt.”  I am not sure who Jack Shirt is, so in fact, I do not know that Jack. Point taken. Sometimes people tell me I don’t

We all get wrapped up in things we have to get done, or things we should be doing.  Some of us are on a constant career path, working relentlessly to get ahead.  Others are working like dogs to make ends

  Some people make a real difference in the world, now don’t they?  Whew.  You have the Mahatma Gandhi’s and the Mother Theresa’s.  The Abraham Lincoln’s and Nelson Mandela’s.  People like Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King

Thin-skinned.  Overreactive.  Sensitive. Guilty as charged.  In more ways than one. Backtrack with me, if you will.  It is no secret.  I love the warm.  The warmest part of Spring, the hot, hot of Summer, and the warmest part of

Wouldn’t you know.  I love a good cairn.  A cairn… pretty much…. is a human-made  stack of stones.  Sometimes, it is more like a big pile of rocks.  But me?  I definitely stack ‘em.  Just a few at a time.

Of course I am going to write about electricity this time around.  It is brilliant. And.  As it is with a lot of things, we only miss them when they are gone.  From this day forward, I vow to pay

  Tonight, I have written three different columns, and scrapped the whole lot of them.  That is just how things have been going with this lately. This one makes four.  So.  I’m running with it.  It is getting late and

Well, it came and went without on little nod of the nose from me. That very first day of summer, 2016.  How could I let such a momentous occasion slip by without the band playing and the room swaying?  Well,