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A 3:00 AM Power Struggle in the Street
My wife and I live in the greater Boston area in Massachusetts. Unlike other far less fortunate places on the US East Coast, we escaped the worst of Hurricane Sandy’s wrath, and were spared any damage or danger from flooding … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Personal
Tagged Conflict Resolution, humor, Hurricane Sandy, life, marriage, Mergers, National Grid, Personal, Power Outages, relationships, Utility Companies
20 Comments
Conversations With My Dad – Part Two
Recently, I wrote a post called Conversations With My Dad in which I described my experience during a day visiting with my father, who suffers from advanced and terminal dementia. That day was a good day, and a good visit with my Dad. … Continue reading
The Decline and Fall of Commercial News Media
With each year that passes by, I’ve become increasingly disturbed by the serious overall decline in the quality of news reporting by all forms of the commercial news media in general, and by the decline of commercial TV news reporting … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged Commercial TV News, Frontline, Journalism, National Public Radio, PBS, PBS News Hour, personal opinion, Public Television
20 Comments
The Story Behind The Story
My post from yesterday featured a video, and when I originally posted it on another website in late August of 2011, the video started a fight that turned into a battle, which spread into a much larger war involving many … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Speech, Grassroots Political Movement, Personal, Smear Campaign
10 Comments
Top Ten Reasons Why There Must Be a Reason Why I’m Still Here
Note to my WordPress friends and readers: Please let me know if you read this entire post from start to finish. It’s very long, but I needed to write all that is here for my own sake, as I tried … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Personal, Scuba Diving, Travel
Tagged accidents, adrenalin rush, adventure, Car crashes, Death, life, love, marriage, Mount Washington, near death experience, Personal, relationships, Risk taking, scuba diving, sex, thrill seeking, travel
25 Comments
The 30 Day Challenge
This is something that Lynda from benzeknees got me interested in doing. But being me, with my consistently eccentric way of thinking, I decided to have some fun with deviating from the way that many people would answer the “questions” … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Personal
Tagged 30 Day Challenge, Enjoyment of being weird., Having fun, humor, parody, Personal, writing
15 Comments
Conversations With My Dad
I recently mentioned that my father has been suffering from increasingly serious dementia for almost four years, and these days his mind is pretty far gone. He doesn’t have Alzheimer’s Disease, but another type of dementia called Lewy Body Dementia. … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Personal
Tagged Caregivers, Caregiving, Caring for an elderly and terminally ill parent, Death, Dementia, humor, Lewy Body Dementia, life, Personal, Terminal Illness
12 Comments
My Shortest Post EVER!!!
As a man of many words, and often enough words to rival the volume of words in Websters Unabridged Dictionary, which sometimes results in my posts being just as interesting to read as a dictionary… today I have decided to … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Personal
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Things Are Looking Up – Revised
My extended self exile from WordPress is now over. I have met my previously planned goals during my near total absence from blogging and commenting on WP, since the end of this past July. And yes, I’ll soon be haunting … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Personal
Tagged employment, humor, love, Making Love, marriage, Personal, relationships, Renewal, sex, Soulmates, unemployment
15 Comments
