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• Figuring It All Out

  When and if we ever get the chance once again to socialize miles away from our homes outside the safety of virus quashing sunlight, while standing or sitting... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2020 SELF EXPRESSION

• My Pandemic Learning Curve

  

  I decided a few weeks ago, shortly after the start of my mandatory exile to my own private Elba in the Texas Hill Country, that the next few weeks or months of... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2020 SELF EXPRESSION

• What Isolation Really Feels Like

  

  Are you like me?If you are, then you’re also growing very, very tired of worrying.   I worry if my almost 61 years on this planet will be easily snuffed out by... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2020 SELF EXPRESSION

• Hello

  

  Not in an Adele way.     Certainly not in a Lionel Ritchie way.    Just a greeting.   At this point in time, it’s all I can offer.On Wednesday, a mere 48 hours... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2020 SELF EXPRESSION

• It’s Easter Weekend

  

  I cone from a mixed marriage.My mother is Methodist, my father while still alive, was a Catholic.    They married in 1950 when such “doins” weren’t readily... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2020 SELF EXPRESSION

• What I Think I’m Learning From This Pandemic

  

  I’ve been here under house arrest since March 15th.      I haven’t had any kind of encounter with another human being.   Phone calls, texts, emails, but human... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2020 SELF EXPRESSION

• Covid-19

  

  Wanna know what the 19 stands for???It’s the number of pounds I’ve gained since starting my voluntary, but strongly suggested quarantine,  14 days ago today. Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2020 SELF EXPRESSION

• I Prayed Today

  

  I did,And as a rule, I don’t.   Not really.    Not like I did today,.But today, I prayed and the damndest thing happened.I prayed for other people. Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2020 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Virus

  

  The fear-inducing power that can be found in a cough.A sneeze.Saliva; spittle.If you stop for one second—just one second—and  attempt to wrap your head around... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2020 SELF EXPRESSION

• And Here We Are.

  And where is that?     In unchartered territory to be sure, yet the long lines the, food shortages, the numbers of sick  and dying seemingly higher all the... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2020 SELF EXPRESSION

• Tá Mé in Éirinn

  

  This will be a short post, because as I compose this,  I have a little over 48 hours left here on the Emerald Isle and I have  to cram about 72 hours in the tim... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2020 SELF EXPRESSION

• My Pre-Ireland Blog Post

  

  We leave for Ireland, the Emerald Isle, tomorrow afternoon. I do believe I fell in love with the place after seeing Darby O’Gill and The Little People. Or was i... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2020 SELF EXPRESSION

• It’s Lent, Ya’ll

  

  I’m a lapsed Catholic.    At one time, I liked all the pomp and circumstance and spiritual magic the “magic”  the dogmatic side required to make Mass….well,... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2020 SELF EXPRESSION

• Blogging During The Latest Demo Debate

  All times CST.First of all, yawn.7:36.  This student loan expungement nonsense infuriates me.    It cost me more than $72-thousand semolians and I spent more... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2020 SELF EXPRESSION

• A Primer On Psychopathy

  First of all, I have the perfect recipe to make a psychopath. Steps 1 through 4: you add a little bit of me, a healthy dash of the incorrigible men I often... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2020 SELF EXPRESSION

• That’s All Folks

  

  Blogging is dead.   Well, personal  blogging is, anyway.   Sports blogs, mommie and fashion and style blogs, tech topics and something called “blogging... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2020 SELF EXPRESSION

• I Know How This Day Ends (2019)

  

  The last present is unwrapped.The food is put away…..even the leftovers and the dishes are done.The last guest is gone.Was it a good Christmas?You ask yourself... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2019 SELF EXPRESSION

• An Angel (?) Wanted A Breakfast Taco

  

  This blog has always meant to be a humor blog, then over time when things began to changes in my life and it adapted it whatever floated my boat. I started it i... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2019 SELF EXPRESSION

• Living With MS

  

  People live with it daily.   They die from it, too.    And right now great strides are being made in the areas finding a cure. Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2019 SELF EXPRESSION

• Fun With Photoshop

  

  Now look, I’m a Trump Republican.   A proud one at that.  I like the guy.  As crass and indelicate as he  might be, he fights for me and those I care  for.  Eve... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2019 SELF EXPRESSION