Covid-19: The Beginning Of Life As We Never Knew It

Coronavirus is bad! let’s get that straight. I know it and you know it. Regardless of of how and where it originated, people’s lives have been negatively impacted. For those directly affected, be it, whether losing a loved one, loss of employment or whatever, I hold you in my thoughts. I was told repeatedly that […]

She’s In Love With The Boy, Or Is She?

While at a recent Garth Brooks concert, his wife Trisha Yearwood was singing her hit song, ‘She’s In Love With The Boy’ and as she sang, my mind wandered, as it is wont to do. It wanders all the time, even while wandering. It wandered this, “Pretty soon that song won’t be politically correct”. You […]

Who Are You?

Do I know you? Do you know you? That may be the better question. Everyone wants everyone to be like…yes, everyone but themselves. Why can’t you be like so-and-so? As a young kid, my aunt wanted me to be like The Baileys. The Baileys were our upper-class family friends, quite naturally, their kids were classy […]

DST

In this hectic world where we wish daily that we had one more hour in our days, losing an hour is a big deal. When it’s done on a Sunday morning where the next day is the much-dreaded and hated Monday, it’s an even bigger deal. It’s becoming increasingly clear that this tactic has ran […]

Don’t Let Your Badness Stop Your Goodness and Make You Lose Your Happiness

As I sat in the pew last Friday, attending my second funeral in as many months, I reflected on how final death was. It was the funeral of a close family friend, she was only 46. The celebration ran long as there were a total of 10 speakers, each sharing stories of the awesome person […]

Random act of kindness

Have you watched or read the news lately? Not too much good stuff, is it? In fact it’s downright depressing. Slowly eroding your belief in your fellow human beings. Well don’t despair, there are still quite a lot of good people out there. Like the one I ran into yesterday. While waiting in line at […]

So Who Betrayed Who?

Embed from Getty Images Early this week, I received a troubling text from the wife, “Honey, if you are on Ashley Madison better fess up now.” I didn’t get it but I knew about the website. My first thought was that there was probably a pop up or a spam email from the site on […]

Memories Of My Centenarian Granny

Note: Last week, my grandmother hit another milestone. She tied her own mother in terms of longevity. I spoke to her for her birthday and she boasted that she is the eyes of her daughter, my aunt Ermine. “I still does thread the needle my boy.” She related. “I do the reading for Ermine too […]

Monday Madness: Sex-Change On A Whim?

Embed from Getty Images Do you find it ironic and equally confusing that we tell our kids to accept themselves no matter how, what and who they are yet we applaud Bruce Jenner for not accepting who he was? I do. At 65 years old, Bruce Jenner of the Kardashian circus fame, decided to have a sex-change. […]

Finding Happiness

Happiness is perhaps one of the most debated topics. A quick visit on the web and you will be bombarded with ads that offer inspirations or blogs on how to find the elusive happiness. How To Be Happy, What Is Happiness? The Happiest City to live. Many hit songs and movies are centered around […]