Now Accepting Applications to SRCarson Schools

If you are a parent, and you truly care about the education of your children, you need to carefully review where you send your kids to school. You need to review the curriculum that is provided for them, the teachers and their educational backgrounds, textbooks that are required and also present in the library of the school.  If they are not up to standards, you must either go to the school board and make Read More

The Spy Who Hummed me

It’s winter, so my pretty little hummers are sunning themselves in southern Mexico or Panama.  Perhaps they would like to lay on the beach to sun themselves, but their super-charged metabolism requires them to feed every ten minutes, so that won’t work. Either way, they are probably having an enjoyable time in the tropics, but my guess is these little colorful hummers miss me.  Yeah, they miss me and Read More

She Likes to Paint

Quite a few things come naturally for her.  In fact, at an early age, she realized the power she had over men, simply by just being herself — for example, walking down the sidewalk downtown, or shopping for groceries.  She owns a classic runway walk that displays a rhythmic motion of her merciless hips (1,2), while her wavy blonde hair bounces with confident freedom.  If her walk could be placed to music, it Read More

Smiling Bobble Heads

It used to be that I always thought the best about people, even though they may not have earned this treatment from me.  In fact, it was common for me (and still is), for me to give people second chances.  However, as time goes on and the gray invades my side burns and winter goatee, I have become less tolerant of people who in the past, have taken advantage of my kindness.  In fact, if a person doe Read More

Silliness and Monty Python

There may be a few of you who are still alive that may remember the British comedy team named Monty Python. They performed their hilariously stupid comedy sketches some years ago, back when the authorities allowed us to laugh freely without arrest or public ridicule for our inappropriate guffaws. Of course, I was just a wee little lad back then, having barely graduated from crawling to walking, and i am sure you b Read More

2022 and Heroes

 When I was growing up, I considered Clint Eastwood, the movie actor, to be my hero, I suppose.  I watched every movie he made and counted the days until his next film appeared in local theaters. This included The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Dirty Harry, Sudden Impact, The Unforgiven, Gran Torino and more. I guess he was a hero to me because he was larger tha Read More

A Reptile Dysfunction

Many people across the country enjoy their reptiles. These are usually snakes and lizards and they really don’t require much care at all, while providing a significant amount of fun and entertainment for their owners.  But too often, these reptiles are taken for granted by the owners, and not given the proper care they need for their health. When they are provided the appropriate stimulus, they often res Read More

Beethoven’s 5th, Nat King Cole and Other Secret Weapons

I am strong, tough and ready around the clock. Not only that I closely guard my emotions at all times, trying to remain calm in the face of adversity, when others panic.  I like to kick ass and take no prisoners when I need to.  Or maybe that’s not true anymore and I’ve become a softy. There have only been two times in my life it has happened, no, I am wrong, maybe three times, I guess. Once, w Read More

I Need a Friend for This One

I have been working on this novel, a thriller, for about 5 years now. The world has changed a lot during the writing process, but interestingly, the topics that are embedded in this work of fiction are still germane —perhaps even more now. Actually, recent geo-political events make my fictional book seem real, and therefore, much scarier than a ghost story.  But the thing is, this is not your typical thrill Read More