“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” – The American Declaration of Independence This spring we took a family vacation to Disney World. We spent a day at Typhoon Lagoon. At this amazing water park, there’s a 3′ deep lazy river that winds around the perimeter of the heart of the park…
It’s one of those days – when mid-fifties with shifting breezes means it’s too cool to wear shorts, and a sweatshirt is more comfortable than a tee. A late October day in North Carolina when it gets dark around 6:30 and the leaves are nearing peak. In a week – the trees will be a bowl of Trixx and it will be getting dark an hour earlier. It’s one of those days when you stand mesmerized in the dying orange…
One morning, a woman sat at the end of her bed crying. Upon seeing this, her husband walked over and sat next to her. He gently reached around and pulled her close. “There, there darling…this doesn’t have anything to do with you turning fifty today now does it?” The husband asked, stroking her cheek with the back of his fingers. The woman nodded and sniffled. “Oh darling…” The man said. He smiled and held her for a while. “It’s…it’s…” she…
Is Death miles away from this house, reaching for a window in Cinncinati or breathing down the neck of a lost hiker in British Columbia? Is he too busy making arrangements, tampering with air brakes, scattering cancer cells like seeds, loosening the wooden beams of roller coasters to bother with my hidden cottage that visitors find so hard to find? Or is he stepping from a black car parked at the dark end of the lane, shaking open the familiar…
Tonight, my wife, a staunch Democrat, said, “Do you know how much he spends every day to get elected?” “I don’t know, 10 million?” I said. “4 million dollars.” she answered. “Advertising’s expensive.” “But think of all those people who could use the money.” she added. “It’s a little hypocritical to be ‘for the middle class’ when you’re spending millions of dollars every day on advertising.” “But that’s the Bush model. Obama just outspent what Bush spent” I said, referring to…
For anyone interested, there was a nice piece about AC/DC in the New York Times today. Their lead singer is 61, Angus is in is 50s and they’ve held firm to their belief that they don’t need to sell out to the digital age. Dinosaurs? Maybe. Ballsy? Definitely. A record 56,000 fans packed Dodger Stadium tonight for game 3 of the NLCS with LA down 2 games to none against Philadelphia. You’d think that after all these years, they’d have had…
