I confess…I’m no expert when it comes to most professional sports. Soccer, or futbol, for instance, can be paint-dryingly yawn-inspiring when spectated by the ill-informed or casual viewer. It’s not easy to grasp its high degree of rabid fan devotion unless you have irrationally shouted at a non-responsive TV broadcast…
We love holidays…and parades. The calendar is so fully crammed with commemorations, honoraria, anniversaries and birthdays, both heartfelt and frivolous, that Hallmark® barely has time to rearrange its featured selections so that say, “Podiatrist’s Day” gets a fair shake coming right on the heels, (sometimes these gems are unintentional), of…
What a cool word, with two very powerful, yet seemingly unrelated definitions: 1. a formal declaration that someone is guilty of a criminal offense, made by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge in a court of law. 2. a firmly…
Ode to Moms Where would we be without you? You carried us to term Most of us love you unconditionally For others Something turned the worm It’s complicated, Freudian Between mothers and their kids Some moms procreate for nourishment Like snakes and katydids While others opt for nurturing Sometimes suffocatingly so…
For as long as I can remember there have been conservationists and environmental crusaders banging on pots, marching with their hand-drawn placards, pontificating on soapboxes and banding together in more organized and well-funded groups like the Sierra Club or the Cousteau Society. Their singular goal, if I may be simplistic,…