Agricultural Cynicism

I just got off my weekly tele-therapy session with my psychiatrist.  She is simply the best and we’ve struck such a great point of orientation that only time can produce.  Man, once I move I am gonna miss her terribly.   Today’s talk was related to this...

PETA, PETA, PETA

I preface this story by insisting all of it is true.   We were living on Third Fifth Street between Second and Third, a neighborhood called Murray Hill.  We lived there about seventeen years in a one bedroom apartment.  We can’t sleep in the same bed because we...

The Shortest Courtship

It was a Thursday afternoon and Janet opened the front door of her parent’s house where she still lived. She couldn’t believe who she was looking at. It was Allen in his Army uniform.  They were childhood sweethearts who met when Allen flunked and had to repeat...

Hail to the Fascist

I know better than to talk politics in the current environment, but since others refuse to comply I’ve gotta dive into the swamp one more time.  “The kind of generals that Hitler had” is what the candidate said.  His former cabinet members refuse to...

Playdate

As the screams and giggles and crying and hysteria and temper tantrums die down from a child’s birthday party next door, I recall playdates from my childhood.  What I recall is that there weren’t any playdates during my childhood.  In hindsight, probably...