Sitemap - 2024 - Too Early To Call

Walking On Fire

Suspended Animation

The Best Sentences of 2024 (editor's warning - none of them are mine)

A View from Here

It's a Pretty Good Life

Christmas Eve and Rudolf Is Holding Out for a Raise

Baby It's Cold Outside

My Mom and Wilma Supik

Words Not to Live By From A Never Was Never Trumper

William Shatner

My Dad Is Sitting Next To Me

Delay, Denial, Despair - An Edited Version of this Post Is Scheduled to Appear in Letters to the Editor in the Boston Globe

The Hour of My Resentments

Can I Get a Little Help Here?

Twas the Night Before Christmas-2024

The Circus Comes to Washington

Mr. Glidden's Vocabulary Words

Playing Volleyball With a Life

With a Smile on My Face and a Tear in My Eye

Why Is Harris-Walz Still Asking Us For Money?

An Edited Version of My Earlier Post "Potty Talk" Is Scheduled to Appear in Letters to the Editor in the New York Times

Michael Strahan and The Pledge of Allegiance

The Forest and the Trees

The Three Stooges

Donald Trump, Groucho Marx, Freedonia and the Laws of the Administration

Pictures on a Horse and Buggy (a follow up to my last post)

Orphan Thoughts

Can You Hear Me Now?

The Restraining Order

Life After Death

What Does It Say About My Writing

Crime and Punishment

Tugboats on the Hudson (a/k/a For Now)

Bracing for a Fall

America, America What Has Become of Thee?

The Ghost Of Hillary Clinton and the Garbage Collector

How to Get Into an Ivy League School

The Party's Over

They Went to a Garden Party

Buckle Up and Strap In

Going, Going, Gone

I Am Feeling Poorly

The Eye of the Beholder

There Is No Joy In Mudville

The Closing Argument

Hello. My Name Is Robert. I Am an Addict.

Voting Early (and Often)

Donald Trump's Convenient Lies

Butch and Sundance

A Guest Post From My Dad

Buried Treasure

Crystal Ball - In Two Part Disharmony

A Crystal Ball - In Two Part Disharmony

For One Night Only

Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio and My Dad

The Year of the Cat

A "Perfect" Meeting

Donna Reed Died

What the Eye Cannot See

"The West Wing" Revisited

Sticks and Stones... and Donald Trump

Home of the Deranged

A Preview of Tonight's Debate

A Three Day Old Tuna Fish Sandwich, Mickey Mouse, The Devil

Our Children's Keeper

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

With Friends Like These

The Lost Summer (Two Lives Gone)

The End of Summer

Mr. Trump's Abortion

Noise, Nonsense, Hyperbole, Histrionics and Hysterics

Sending Our Kids to Camp

The Summer of My Discontent

With a Wink and a Grin

They Love Me. They Love Me Not.

Mr. Walz Goes to Washington

Let Them Eat Cake (and Pizza)

First, Do No Harm

The Race About Race

An Edited Version of "Are the Dems Actually Smiling?" (re-posted below) is scheduled to appear in Letters to the Editor in the New York Times

Are the Dems Actually Smiling?

While I Was Away

The Mourning After

1) The Big Lie 2) It Was the Best of Times. It Was the Worst of Times

Means, Motive and Opportunity

On the Attempted Killing of Donald Trump

Vice President Trump

A Sneak Preview of President Biden's Speech Bowing Out of the Race

We're Not In Kansas Anymore

When Is It Time?

Debatable Value - an Edited Version of this post is scheduled to appear in Letters to the Editor in the Boston Globe

The 11th Commandment - an edited version of this post is scheduled to appear in Letters to the Editor in the Washington Post

Please Don't Send This to the New York Times

An Unfair Fight

The Say Hey Kid

My Father's Day Present

Hollywood Versus Trump

Warnings and Worries - An Edited Version of This Post Is Scheduled to Appear in Letters to the Editor in the New York Times

The Evening News On Network TV

Francis Scott Off Key

The Bench Coach

Fairy Tales Can Come True

Hear No Evil. See No Evil.

That's Life (or Maybe Four Years)

How Say You to Count One of the Indictment?

Guilty or Innocent- Does It Even Matter?

The People In Your Neighborhood

Of Ping Pong Games and the Yankees

Touch the Heavens - Or Die Trying

Words Without Meaning

Could You Repeat that Question?

The Task at Hand

Crying and Jimmy Stewart

The Courtroom Artist

Mutiny From My Clothes Closet

Wednesdays With Ira

The Great Hunt for the Allicorn

Accessories After the Fact

Pencil Without a Point

A Jury of My Fears

College Presidents and College Protests

The Ballad of Stephanie Gregory Clifford

An Unbelievable Patriot

Our Collaboration

From my hospital bed

An edited version of my earler post, March Madness Redux, is scheduled to appear in Letters to the Editor in the Washington Post

Right and Wrong

March Madness. Redux.

The Death of April Fools'

Under Oath. For Under $60

NBC News and the Hiring of Ronald McDonald

We Don't Care If We Never Get Back

Pulling Up My Pants (and Other Dangerous Activities)

Campaign in the Gutter. Govern in Hell

If He Were Still Dictator

Misty, Water Colored Memories of the Way We Were

Is the Fat Lady Already Warming Up in the Wings?

Beyond Redemption

A video, taken by me, of my wife skiing on her 70th birthday

The Man and Woman Behind the Man

To My Wife on her 70th Birthday

The State of Joe Biden Address

When (this is a lament for those caught in the storm)

Elvis and the Supremes

Democracy Burning

Joe Biden, Sarah Palin and a Bridge to Nowhere

An edited version of an earlier post, "When Reality Crashes the Party" is scheduled to appear in Letters to the editor in the Washington Post

Dollars for Donny

Well She Was Just 70 (in 3 Weeks Anyway)

When Reality Crashes the Party (a/k/a- It Was the Best of Times. It Was the Worst of Times.)

The Super Bowl, Taylor Swift and the Fate of Our Democracy

The First Dance

If He Can't Walk, Can He Run?

An edited version of my last post "When Is a Win a Loss?" is scheduled to appear in Letters to the Editor in the Boston Globe

When Is a Win a Loss?

An edited version of "Jaundiced Eyes", an earlier post, is scheduled to appear in Letters to the Editor in the New York Times

Absolute Immunity - Absolute Nonsense

Deja Vu All Over Again.

Lesson Not Learned

T1 and T2 - The Greatest Show on Earth

The Most Dominant American Athlete of the Past 40 Years

The Art of the Stall

Love Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry

Plotting My Escape

We All Fall Down

Cruelty of the gods

The Soul of a 106 Year Old Woman

Season's Greetings

The End of Snow

The Golden Rule

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