Tuesday, July 1, 2025

UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE YEAR:

                        

There are no 'true' winners here

I've added my own version [below] to the throwback lyrics of the Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young hit; in other words, it's no longer about Kent State:

 

 [Chorus]:


Rage smolders and Bryan's gunning,

He truly acts on his own;

Come morning, the scene is stunning:

'Four Dead in Idaho'

[Verse]

When you get down to it,
Incel is partly to blame:

Should have been trashed long ago;
What if you knew him,
Then witnessed that scene:
How can you run once you know?

When you get down to it,
Anger is also to blame:
Should have been dashed long ago...
One mental illness; now,

"Four dead on the ground"

How can we hide once we know?


[Chorus]

Rage smoldered and Bryan listened;

He finally felt all alone;

This summer he cut a plea deal:


Four Dead in Idaho

Four dead in Idaho

Four dead in Idaho
**********************

Four dead in Idaho
Four dead in Idaho


Tuesday, June 24, 2025

A 'CANCER SUN-SIGN BIRTHDAY' APPEARS BEFORE OUR VERY EYES!!

                                        

That's because it's 6-24 today!



And remember this,

as well ...
*************



... and may you be blessed with many happy years ahead



Sunday, June 22, 2025

EIGHT YEARS AGO, I HAD TO STEADY A PATH...

 

Sadly, it was inevitable


  'Eight years' may seem like eternity;
   Yet, that's what the calendar claims;
    Eight years ago, today, a path was gently laid:

     Life's portrait soon tossed its steel frame...



Oh, how we reminisce,

On days like today:

Her shadow peers

Through every mirror;

The silliest things

She said many times

Now seem somehow soft,

Or just clearer...


Monday, June 16, 2025

Thursday, April 17, 2025

JUST ONE YEAR SHORT OF '30 YEARS AGO'

 

I sure did host a ton of holidays when I was younger..."Little Man" (sitting on my lap) was just 28 months old back then...It was Easter of 1996...

After hosting 68+ holiday events, I am soooo ready to pass the torch for good!!

Sunday, March 23, 2025

CAN'T LET THIS MARCH DAY GO BY WITHOUT SAYING...

                                                   

                                                   




Have fun in Savannah, as well !!! 

Monday, March 17, 2025

CHANNELING MR. McCOURT TODAY !!

                           


"The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith, and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland, and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.”    ― Frank McCourt


"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.”   ― Frank McCourt


“After a full belly all is poetry.”
― Frank McCourt



“Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.”
― Frank McCourt




“People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying school masters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years ...  Above all, we were wet.”

― Frank McCourt



When I first went up to see my editor, I was with my agent, and my editor said, 'Well, what have you been doing all these years?' And my agent said, 'He's been in recovery... From his childhood.'

- Frank McCourt









Oh, the travails of being Irish !!!


Tuesday, February 18, 2025

NOT ALL THAT LONG AGO...

                                      You looked forward to celebrating your birthday at an Escape Room !!

   But, as they say in the 'Gamer's World', you've levelled up




    






XOXOX for NOW and forever !!

Saturday, February 15, 2025

[ YES, I'LL SECOND THAT! ]

            Ruled by the number 6, with a combined influence of Venus and Uranus

                                                     

Those born on this mid-winter day of 2-15 share their 'birth anniversary' with renowned notables such as Cyrus McCormick, Jane Seymour, Galileo Galilei, Matt Groening, and Susan B. Anthony. What's more, did you know that February 15th individuals find it perfectly natural and commonplace to regularly think "creatively"? In addition, they are usually less threatened [i.e., than most other people are] when faced with complex challenges, intricate problems, and/or thorny predicaments.

                             


Furthermore, it's a long and well-recognized fact: February 15th folks are very intellectually curious and repetitively whet their innate analytical talents. Yes, I'll second that!! They are 'high empaths', as well, and thus feel another's pain more intensely than [does] the average person. These individuals also adore the unfettered delight of roaming free, thinking as they wish, investigating natural history, and allowing their fertile minds to explore ALL of the assorted wonders of the world in which they find themselves...[AMEN TO THAT, too] !

And, yes, I know the above details are 'spot on' because I'm blessed to be a member of the 2-15 tribe...

Thursday, February 13, 2025

SOMETIMES THE VERY SWEETEST THINGS YOU FIND...

 

Are when you're not even searching for them; they've been tucked away in a keepsake drawer for YEARS...such as this

Happy Heart Day to all of my loved ones tomorrow


JUST SHY OF 'HEART-DAY', A LITTLE GIRL...

 

CELEBRATED HER BIRTHDAY !!








Tuesday, February 4, 2025

A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD ME IT'S YOUR B'DAY TOMORROW!

                                                                 

   

The groundhog's

Now behind us,

But winter still

Can chill!


'Feb. 5th'

Will round the corner,

With greetings yet

To spill:

Happy Birthday,

Dear Richard;

Your journey's

Been wild...

We send our best wishes

Oh, second-born child !!!

                                                                         Drs. Richard and Kaitlyn