Postscript

Little by little, I plan on using bits of my autobiography to acquaint my blogger-friends with a sense of who I am. Instead of the preface, I am going to post a few last remarks. I hope it makes sense. If not, I can delete it and start from scratch.
From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
The [...]

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Take Care Of Your Own

I’ve chosen the following poem from my book The Iconoclast, because I have reached the “cut-off” point. If I so much as suspect the contents of an envelope I find in my mailbox contains a solicition for funds from some church, or organization, that does not provide “family planning and early abortion—when conditions warrant it—the [...]

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About Reparations

This morning I received an email from a fellow-writer and poet, a not so young any more person whom I admire for his unbounded enthusiasm. We agree on almost all things, especially politically. However, this morning I found myself at odds with him over whether or not we owe any one race for the evils [...]

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Jacob’s Bargain With Laban

I had meant to use an Easter theme for today’s blog, but since my viewpoint on the season is decidedly far from the “Jesus died for my sins”, instead of the “Messianic restoration of Jerusalem to its former glory and to bring in the Kingdom of God”, I’ve decided to use the following. . .
GENESIS [...]

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God’s Will

I do my best to never pretend to be anything I am not, so when it comes to writing fiction, I do little of it. I know a good story when I read one, but I don’t pretend to be above average when trying to write my own, and good story writers must know what [...]

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A Special Delivery

Bossy’s low, drawn out moan signaled trouble, serious trouble. It was after eight o’clock in the evening and I had returned to the barn and to the Holstein heifer whose labor began while the children and I were attending to the evening milking.
Evening chores always began between five-thirty and six. By seven, five days a [...]

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If The Shoe Fits

Because religion appears to be of prime importance in the upcoming selection of presidential candidates for the office of President of the United States of America, this morning I decided to search my book “The Iconoclast” for a suitable poem for today’s blog. The following seemed to be an appropriate choice.
Witless, the man who does [...]

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More Musings

Perhaps it’s age that causes it: this instant return to the past and almost always, to an incident from my past I’d rather leave where it was. . . temporarily pushed to a distant alcove in my brain. Sometimes it takes but a single word or phrase uttered by a character in a television sitcom [...]

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Just thinking

While visiting another’s blogsite, I found the day’s subject matter to be based on the spiritual side of life. I’ve always wondered about the subject and the complexities that arise from reading more into biblical scriptures than necessary. The subject had to do with “speaking in tongues”. Some years ago I did a bit of [...]

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Don’t Jump To Conclusions

It is going on eleven, that’s 11:00 PM and I’m a little short of something of substance to add to my blogsite for the day, I’ve decided to share a bit of, shall we call it, whimsey? Can’t remember ever using that word before. This probably needs a bit of editing but not tonight.
Maggie Alicia [...]

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