Monthly Archives: August 2020

We all knew it was coming. This great man has stood up bravely in the face of many disasters. Yet we saw the slippage a few years ago when he was somehow 30 miles away from the eye of hurricane … Continue reading →

  CARDBOARD STUDENTS   Lance Carpenteur reported to Ft. Myers High School for his senior year. He was avidly looking forward to all the great rituals and his graduation, but the viral pandemic put a damper on his dreams. Much … Continue reading →

  AGING THOUGHTS   Jacob Taylor Rumsfeldt had very little to do during the Covid-19 epidemic, so he got out his yellow legal pad, sharpened his number two Dixon pencil and started to reproduce his thoughts on the blue-lined pages. … Continue reading →

He has aged some. His fuzzy round head now is bald. Instead of poling his rickety little skiff along with a big stick in the swamp, he is using a crutch. Still we look to this cute innocent little guy … Continue reading →

I looked at the beautiful shiny plane sitting on the runway. As I began climbing the steps. I was transported back to the mid-1930s when the first larger commercial airplane for passenger service was introduced to the amazed public.  I … Continue reading →

The day started fairly normally. I got up, went to the bathroom, put on my shorts and started the coffee. Pretty normal. The coffee gurgled a greeting and started dripping. The caffeine apparently is atomized so I began to become … Continue reading →

WARNING   Many Americans will be caught completely off guard. Researchers at the University 0f South Dakota School of Mines released an extensive story revealing that a vast majority of American citizens are totally unprepared for the time when the … Continue reading →

FEDERAL RESERVE ACTION   The Federal reserve, in an action to help Wall Street, infused $500 million worth of cocaine to offset stock market loses. Financial experts were counting on the stimulus to turn 200,000 Wall Street employees into coked-up … Continue reading →

High above the Earth two brave astronauts, Robert Behnke and Douglas Hurley, sit comfortably in their summer getaway- the Space Station. They are the first two American astronauts to be flown to the Space Station by a private rocket, SpaceX. … Continue reading →

The dog is barking furiously. Mary removes her headset and lowers her knitting- “What does that stupid dog want now?” Mary makes eye contact with John’ “It was your idea to get a dog. Don’t blame me. I told you … Continue reading →

If you heard someone say, “What’s up?” you could be excused if you look upward. After all, that was a clear question. Although I do wonder why the speaker is too lazy to look for himself. If you did catch … Continue reading →