snake in the weeds
July 14, 2013Earlier today, while smoking a cigarette out on my small back patio, I encountered an animal surprise. Well, not an animal — a garden snake. Later, after the appropriate Googling, I found a lookalike, way-similar…
Category Archives: Musings
‘The Drum’ goes still
July 14, 2013Sad news now a couple of weeks old — one of the way-best data/info sites on the InterWebs will soon go ‘archive‘ only and a neat, educated voice in the ether will go quiet. The…
News that sticks
June 19, 2013Once again it’s already middle of the week — time flies when shit runs supreme. And a lot of it does stick to the wall. Another foggy early morning here on California’s north coast as…
Not Again!
June 3, 2013No matter how you look at it, the weekend’s over and we’re at Monday again — and typically it’s overcast and warm up here on California’s north coast with another work week staring straight into…
happy, happy
June 2, 2013Cloudy, drizzle and fog — another Sunday here on California’s north coast, though, the normal pedigree for this neck of the woods. Started out about the same yesterday, but near-noon sunshine came and everybody went…
Monday quiet
May 27, 2013Softly, quietly raining this early Monday on California’s north coast and in the still-dark air there’s a sense that seemingly all is well with the world, and peace reigns from here to Timbuktu. Yeah, right!…
Monday Moan
May 20, 2013Foggy and overcast this way-too-early Monday with another work week staring me straight in the face — the only consolation is it will be Friday again before anyone really notices. Time seems to slow just…
commendable commencement
May 11, 2013A most-marvelous event this afternoon: My daughter, Hannah Maulden, graduated from Middle Tennessee State University. PROUD doesn’t describe the emotion. She’s spent nearly five years getting to this point and through hard work, and more…
Details Delete
May 9, 2013Foggy and a bit on the chilly side this early Thursday on California’s north coast, no stars, no wind, no sound. So quiet, it must be quiet all over the world. Wrong! Much of the…
Washing the blues away — once again
May 5, 2013(Illustration of Ulf Buschmann‘s ‘Laundromat‘ found here). Again another Sunday, Now this morning bright sunshine and warm — storms toiling elsewhere. Oh, for sure back at the laundromat, Weekly visits to thee I sing, Just…