Surviving the Crazy Twins

My struggle with the crazy twins that haunt me: Bipolar Disorder and Alzheimer’s Disease.
There’s A Clean, Well Lighted Place

There’s A Clean, Well Lighted Place

And Then There’s Family Promise No less a literary titan than James Joyce once described Ernest Hemingway’s short story, A Clean, Well Lighted Place, as ” … masterly. Indeed, it is one of the best short stories ever written…” And...
I, Claudius

I, Claudius

Decadent Rome.  Decadent America? I don’t really remember how I, Claudius got on my Netflix radar.  I think it was my sister who suggested it.  But in any event, it took months, even years, for it to work its way to the top of my queue.  But I’m glad-I...
Crawling off the marriage altar

Crawling off the marriage altar

The trouble with living sacrificesI’ve been a member of The Bookies book club now for going on two years.  We’re four guys, all current or past members of the same church. Some of the books we’ve read left me hungry for more.  Hanna...
Censorship and social media

Censorship and social media

Who says the ADL dictates what we see on the Internet? You’ve heard, no doubt, of the “snowflake” meme.  It’s a term describing usually left-leaning college kids and a vast assortment of minorities who’ve either never heard of, or...