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Tuesday Afternoon
it’s late in the afternoon and nothing really exciting going on within my end of the world. did pick up my prescriptions earlier so that Ms Walgreens won’t keep texting and phoning me reminding me that my prescriptions are ready as for the the rest of the afternoon took a quick power nap then proceeded… Continue reading
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Tuesday Morning
An exciting day Why Had blood work done Now to wait for the results Hopefully everything will be good until the end of the year Then will be doing it again It’s like wash rinse repeat Continue reading
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An Observation
Today is the last Monday of the month It is a day closer to the end of the month A day closer to the end of the year A day closer to becoming a 75 year old man and I’m proud of how far I have come to the three quarter mark of the century… Continue reading
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Observation
Sitting in the rocking chair Biding time As I am getting older With every passing tick of the clock Continue reading
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Saturday Evening Quote
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ~ Jane Austen Continue reading
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Monday Blues
What a way to start off a new day, by throwing my lower back out of wack. I had just finished putting a sock on the left foot, and then I felt the twinge on the lower part right above my ass. Needless to say I was very uncomfortable with the tightness, especially when getting… Continue reading
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Saturday Evening
Saturday evening in soggy Massachusetts. It rained all afternoon and it is still doing its thing as I am writing, should say typing as actually writes any more. It is a lost art, which for most people will never be done any time soon. I will admit that I would type rather than write long… Continue reading
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Wednesday
Wednesday afternoon. Been busy the past few days. A lot on my plate, so to speak. Couldn’t devour it all in one day, as I would have been bloated, aching and whatever else could possibly happen. Did manage to finish a book today, along with doing a load of laundry, which is done and out… Continue reading
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50 Words Flash Fiction
Out of bread, so off to the store. Arrive at store find doors locked. Sign in the window says, out of bread, really out of all the different types of bread. Sign also says, come back in a couple of days, and then we will have your bread. Maybe. Bummer! Continue reading
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Question
If you was to meet and have a conversation with someone from the past, say over a coffee at an outdoor café, who would that be. I would love to do it with Jack Kerouac. He was from the same area of the state as me. Anyway, I have read most of his books ,… Continue reading
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Tuesday Morning
All is well on the home front. Here at the medical building with my partner as she is having blood work done. Then come next week she sees her doctor for a routine wellness check. Hopefully that will be it for appointments until December, which will be my turn for blood and doctor. That’s it… Continue reading
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Sunday Evening Quote
“If the watchdog doesn’t bark, how do you know there’s a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.” ~ Bill Moyers Continue reading
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And so ….
… it is day two of pure shitty weather; rain, wind, cool and all out the raw feeling. Anyways, I did manage to get a couple of walks in. As for being indoors. I kept myself busy, doing three online Sunday crosswords, got some book reading in, and watching some of the baseball games on… Continue reading
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A Wonderful Way To Cleanse One’s Mind
Photo by TANSU TOPUZOĞLU: https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-sitting-on-the-top-of-a-rock-formation-in-cappadocia-looking-at-the-sunset-16721382/ Continue reading
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Ho Hum of a Day
What a big change in the weather. The past two days was fairly hot, Thursday was in the high 80s, and Friday was a couple of degrees cooler. Today, its a whole different ballgame with rain, chilly with that raw feeling, and in the afternoon it was 49 degrees. Sunday won’t be any better, with… Continue reading
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Umm …
Let’s see We go to bed when we are tired We eat when we are hungry We drink water or other types of liquids when we are thirsty We buy food so we don’t go hungry We work to make money We do multiple other things in life So you are wondering where I’m going… Continue reading
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Okay So
June 1st signifies a new month, a new day and the month that has the longest hours of daylight. Also, it is the beginning of the sixth month which at the end will bring us to the halfway point of the year. Sure it is getting close to the real summer to begin, which means… Continue reading
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Past or Present
Were things better back in the day versus the present time. I’ve often would run this through my mind, would come up with the most common things that when I was a kid, it seemed that we were relying on the radio, television and newspapers for all the information. To me it seemed to be… Continue reading
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Wednesday Evening Quote
“Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe.… Continue reading
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All Unravelled
a perfect day turns to shit in a matter of the batting of the eyes when you he locked himself out of his apartment which located on 14th floor so going through the window is out of the question and there is no fire escape to use and the building manager has gone home for… Continue reading
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So
All I have to say is that I am tired and at a loss for words. With that being said, tomorrow is another day. Continue reading
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It Happens ~ Short Story
So Bob is off to the store for milk, and lo and behold they’re all sold out and the store clerk said he doesn’t know when they will get a delivery, as the cows local union 69 are on strike for fair wages as the cows shop steward have had it with the farmers and… Continue reading
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Monday’s Quote
“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.” ~ John Lennon Continue reading
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Climate-Change Deniers
“The climate-change deniers are rapidly ending up with as much intellectual credibility as creationists and Flat Earthers. They are nudging close to having the moral credibility of Holocaust deniers.” ~ Johann Hari Continue reading
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Sunday Night
Another Sunday is soon coming to an end, and a new day will come about. Took my walks today, even though it was hot, it humid at all. On the early evening stroll, I decided to go walking on the boardwalk as it runs parallel with the river. About halfway down the way I ran… Continue reading
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A Warm Saturday Evening
Came back from my usual after meal walk, and it is really warm out. When I left which was around 5:30, it was 77 F, and when I finished it was 74. Sunday it is supposed to 90 or close to it. To me that is much to early for this time of year. Temperatures… Continue reading
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Saturday Morning Quote
“I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn’t that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn’t mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in… Continue reading
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Friday’s Quote
“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.” ~ Martin Heidegger Continue reading
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Friday Afternoon
Late Friday afternoon the starting point for the working people which I am no longer a part of, the three day weekend. I remembered when I would look forward to the long weekend and how fast they flew by. Now that I am retired the longer weekends don’t really matter much. On the home front… Continue reading
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Today’s Quote
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” ~ Ralph Waldo… Continue reading
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It Can Be Embarrassing
Walking with one’s head in the clouds, can end being an embarrassing event. I have done it myself but snapped out of it pretty quickly before anything happened. A few years back when I was part of the work-a-day-world, I was returning back to where I work, I was on JFK Street in Central Sq.,… Continue reading
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Wednesday Evening
Never got around to posting yesterday, so I will try and give it a go. Anyways … after I finished posting Monday evening, there was a medical emergency I had to attend to. My partner became ill, and asked her what was wrong, and she thought she was having a silent heart attack. Like a… Continue reading
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Monday Evening
Monday evening and all is well. Nothing much to report on, so … anyway I hope to get back to posting on a daily basis. I know it can be hard to find the time to sit down and get on with it. With that said, I will give it my best to come up… Continue reading
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Surreal
As I mentioned in my previous post about a book I am close to finishing up, Inside Story by Martin Amis. It was his last novel which was published in 2020. Anyway, he talks about his best friend Christopher Hichens dying of Oesophageal Cancer, stage four. What was mind numbing was that was the same… Continue reading
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Saturday
Saturday evening and and nothing really exciting happened today. Its been raining all afternoon and it is still going on. I did manage to get a couple of walks in, got some book done. Sadly the book that I am currently finishing up is by Martin Amis. He passed away on Friday in Florida at… Continue reading
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Never A Dull Moment
As you all know, if not some of you know that I do a lot of walking. Most days, it will be three sometimes 4 times a day, and average about anywhere from three to sometimes 6 miles in a day. I will admit that there those days that I have to push myself to… Continue reading
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Today’s Quote
“To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying, but in the end it is static, a mere statement. Being wrong is hard and humbling, and sometimes even dangerous, but in the end… Continue reading
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All Is Good
Saw the doctor today No aches No pain All is good Also had my eyes checked at the optometrist No sugar in the eyes No glaucoma and no cataracts Don’t need new glasses Two days in a row of getting good news Life is good Continue reading
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Today’s Quote
“Short stories demand a certain awareness of one’s own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.” ~ Joan Didion Continue reading
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Reading or Writing
“If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them. And when that happens, reading those writers … becomes a source of unbelievable… Continue reading
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I’ll Take It
its Saturday afternoon and its sunny, warm and lots of clouds and I am tired from keeping myself busy as in busy as a bee did i just say that oh my what was I thinking well i could be tired from getting up to early or from not enough coffee nah then there’s the… Continue reading
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Today’s Quote
“Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle – for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out… Continue reading
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Nabokov and Joyce
“What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive tendency to overtip. An uxoriousness that their wives deservedly inspired. More than that, they both lived their lives ‘beautifully’–not in any Jamesian sense (where, besides, ferocious solvency would have been… Continue reading
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Going With The Flow
Its the last day of April, and still dealing with this damn head cold. Its not as bad as it has been. Anyways, I’ve been more or less taking it easy, getting the things that have to be done out of the way. As for books, I can’t seem to get my head around into… Continue reading
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The Blahs
Haven’t been online much lately, as I have been dealing a damn headcold. I came down with it late last week. Anyways, I’m just taking it easy and only dealing with the important things that have to get done. Oh well. Such is life. Continue reading
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Today’s Quote
“I’ve gotten a lot of comfort from the philosophy of the Roman Stoics. For me, one of the most powerful ideas of Stoicism is that you can’t pick or choose in the world what you want to happen and what you don’t want to happen, and that actually if you did get to choose, the… Continue reading
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Iain Banks Quote
“People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots… in fact I think they have to be… a genius can be an idiot. The world is largely run for and by idiots; it is no great handicap in life and in certain areas is actually a… Continue reading
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People Quote
“People? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought experiment. At the campfire they put the usual fraction on exhibit, and listen to their own silent gibber about how they’re feeling and how they’re going down. We’ve been there. Death helps. Death gives… Continue reading
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Today’s Quote
“Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.” ~ Jonathan Franzen Continue reading
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Nina Simone Quote
“Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good” ~ Nina Simone Continue reading
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A Thought on Judgment
As a society in totality, we tend to be judgmental on just about any and all subjects we can touch upon. Why I’m bringing this up, I ran into a dear friend of mine, and we sat down and had a chat in Washington Sq., park. She is someone I had met about a dozen… Continue reading
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Writing Quote
“As every writer knows… there is something mysterious about the writer’s ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the writer is ‘hot’, an invisible wall seems to fall away, and the writer moves easily and surely from one kind of reality to another… Every writer has experienced at least… Continue reading
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Let’s See
Today was kind of a busy day. Went to the super market, picked up a few things, like bananas, black raspberries, red raspberries, a red pepper, and a few other things. Got that out of the way, and then had my breakfast, and did an online crossword, finished it of course. After that, did some… Continue reading
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Weather
It was a surreal kind of weather we had the past couple of days. Thursday, the late afternoon temperature registered 86 degrees. That is not the kind of heat to have in the middle of April. I’ll be truthful it knocked me for a loop, and eventually drained the shit out of me. With that… Continue reading
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Big Box Stores
Big box stores just don’t do it for me anymore. They haven’t for quite a while. Its probably been at least eight years, maybe more. There could be a couple of reasons why I don’t bother to go to them, as in another life, I did work in two of them, and for the most… Continue reading
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Literature
“To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what lasts. That’s what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better.” ~ Susan Sontag Continue reading
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Fear
“F-E-A-R has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.” ~ Zig Ziglar Continue reading
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A Good Day
Today was a good day. I was up and out of bed earlier than usual, actually about a half hour before sunrise. The outside temperature was 33 degrees, at around 6:00 am. It got up to 64 degrees, late in the afternoon, which made a nice day. Got the one errand done early, then took… Continue reading
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Today’s Quote
“Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.” ~ Agatha Christie Continue reading
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My Life
I titled this post My Life, as I am trying my hand at penning an essay. It’s something I’ve been wanting to do for quite some time. I know it’s not an easy thing to do, well, anyways here it goes. I have been keeping myself busy, meaning running errands, doing chores, as in doing… Continue reading
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Daydreamer
“The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who don’t know you very well, are likely to think you’re rather stupid. Or, if not stupid, then dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head.” ~ Ian Mcewan Continue reading
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ok …
what I learned new today, is that yesterday is in the past, and whatever happened – happened. move on … Continue reading
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Editing Your Work
“The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.” ~ Zadie Smith Continue reading
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Question
Photo by Saliha : https://www.pexels.com/photo/dawn-coffee-writing-drink-15885836/ Continue reading
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its …
its february its winter its cold and it snowed today shocker Continue reading
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Ok …
if I learnt anything new today it was not a damn thing I can live with that Continue reading
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Escape
“We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art–we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.” ~ Anais Nin Continue reading
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They Know
i know that you know that your aunt knows your uncle knows your cousin knows that your mother grandmother grandfather your next door neighbor knows your sister knows your brother knows your not much loved inlaw knows your boss knows your mail carrier knows your milk man knows grocery store clerk knows your pharmacist knows… Continue reading
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To Be Alive is Grand
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” ~ Agatha Christie Continue reading
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A Thought
With a mass shooting in a supermarket, which earlier last year. In late November a lake effect snowstorm which buried the greater Buffalo area. Then the blizzard in late December which paralyzed the city and its environs, and the people who lost their lives. And last, Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills going into cardiac… Continue reading
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Comfort of Feeling Safe
“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of… Continue reading
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m
mind less madness mingling mind meaningless masturbatory machinations of a mangled mind Continue reading
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