Not Talking about Health Care
Being, (I can scarcely say this), a near-elderly person , (gag me with my false teeth), if I were speaking to another geezer, and if that person were here in the Allegro Campground in Red Bay, in Alabama, I would have to do two things. First, I would have to talk VERY LOUD because in [...]
Keep on Truckin’ that Truc Atoll, Mama….
There’s life, there’s death and, hopefully, in between, there’s a bit of renewal. And there are parallels, it seems, between updating a no-long-spanking-new motor home and revitalizing an ever-so-slightly-aging body. Forgive me if I’ve said this before…seems I may have, but with my geezer memory I can’t swear to it….but in the RV World updating [...]
20 Steps to an All-New Jihad
It may sound extreme, but I believe some people SHOULD die violent, ugly deaths, and, if possible, should then be temporarily resurrected so they can to die the same way again, if possible over and over again, like they were living out their own malevolent Groundhog Day movie. These people include the folks next door [...]
Albert’s Use of Malevolent Avoidance in the Us-vs.-Them War
Albert and I left the Tiffin accounts-payable office at the same time the other morning, each of us with our paid receipt in hand. “How’d ya do?” he asked jovially…a warning sign that he had “done” better than I in an unspoken contest consistently played between us Tiffin owners and the Tiffin service center, where [...]
When I Was Young and Cars were Cars
Many of us are concerned with the issues surrounding the automobile industry, but these will pass. Here’s hoping we each have stories about our own cars that we remember longer. Would you care to hear one or two of mine? In the summer of 1961, between our sophomore and junior years, Bill McCormick, a widow-peaked, [...]
The Shifting Value of Money
I just re-read the excellent little poker-story book “The Biggest Game In Town”, written a few years back by the equally excellent London-based journalist Al Alvarez. This book chronicles, more or less, the birth and growth of the World Series of Poker, at least of its early days, and, while it’s at it, captures the [...]
Elvis and Me
I suppose like most people, there are times when I wish I was somebody else. Maybe more often than with most people ‘cuz with me I can add in the depths-of-depression times…”God, I wish I was anybody else!” But those are not the times I’m talking about here; here I mean those times when I [...]
In Search of a New Body
I’ve been dismayed about how difficult it is, when older, to lose weight. Of course I haven’t stopped eating, which may give me a clue as to the reasons for the difficulties. In fact yesterday….another community pig-out celebrating Memorial Day here at the Allegro Campground in Red Bay, where a couple hundred of us strays [...]
Out and About in Doubt
The other day I posted a little essay (in our travel blog, see links) that began with a short bit about the ultra-conservatives here in the Allegro Campground who routinely monopolize the customer lounge’s one TV set and keep it pointed at FOX News, making one hater comment after another about Obama, Pilosi…well, about virtually [...]
Dancin’ at the Rascal Faire…..
My apologies to whomever wrote the above-mentioned book; I’m stealing title only, not content, as we were neither near a Rascal Faire, whatever that might be, nor dancing. However, we were at a town fair, at Vernon, which is maybe 7 miles out of Red Bay, primarily because a guy came into the customer lounge [...]