Down, Not Out Down, not out Its not who we are Not destined to be There again Setting out Tasked with Learning how to win Discovering difficulty Almost everyday Along each road taken When the lights come on again All over our world Rewards mostly forgotten Somehow not forsaken We prepare for tomorrow With yesterday’s…
Dingbat Dan (Not a Sunday kind of man) Tomorrow’s notes, today: I grew up hearing the descriptive, “dingbat”. It wasn’t necessarily a bad thing, but then again, it definitely wasn’t really a nice thing to say to or about another individual, be they male or female. Then, there was the time as a supposed adult male…
You Can’t Fight City Hall (Really?) It was a common colloquialism around the lower east side of New York, as one might expect to hear echoing from one tenement building to another—back when I was a kid: rules were rules. We kids picked up on everything our parents might be using in their daily conversations, regardless of…
Sunday, July 4th, 2021 To all you Yankee Doodle Dandies “Hip, hip, hurrah” to and for all of us who have a love affair with the greatest country in the history of the world, the way we believe, and pray it will remain forever. This is to the United States of America, the very grandest…