Turkey Time Just in case you’d like to know:Our military now: there are about 1.3 million active-duty personnel, or less than one-half of 1 percent of the U.S. population. The army is the largest U.S. military service, followed by the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. Source: Office of the Undersecretary of Defense….
With a Friend, Or Without You may speak as one to another Or not to another at all Or to a person like yourself About today, about tomorrow Or a long ago place on a forgotten shelf Perhaps all with an inner perspective One might be for sure The other merely a maybe Yours truly,…
Scribed this Veterans Day, 2020 Wouldn’t you have to agree 2020 has been a rather strange year, at best?! — Some facts can’t be denied. I do believe you’d have to agree with what I just conveyed. When I was a little kid, I heard for the very first time, original source unknown:…
Chuncheon, Korea: Located approximately six miles from the DMZ, 45 miles northeast of Seoul. Early July, 1953 Heat and humidity, unbearableTime of day, in the wee hours of the morningOn a troop train without indoor plumbing (holes in the floor)Note: There are no adequate words to properly describe the abominable stinkWe’re jammed in, this young…
Meeting Stanislavski Dorsey High School, here in Los Angeles: At the time my prime interest was playing baseball and one day, signing a contract to play for a professional team. Studying and becoming a renowned scholar never entered my mind, at least not initially. My drive consisted of play, play, and more play….
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. -Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice- Often I agree, often I may not. Often the world does exceed the term ‘naughty’, expressed by the great bard. Often there are times in our lives when only a single…
Where did it go Along with me Am I virtual No, that can’t be Used to love to dance I’d hold her She’d love me How to kiss goodnight We’re both wearing a mask Doesn’t matter at all Beneath my mask I don’t have teeth The nature of despair for positive thinkers Such as ourselves…
I’m reminded of an experience most of us as parents similarly can recall. When you’re awakened in the middle of the night by one of your kids, who’s upset because they imagined a bad person being in the room with them. “Daddy, I’m scared there’s a bad man in the room, he’s hiding…
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2020.9:00 A.M. In this play, I was the star without lines and they were the players with all the lines and movement. They displayed the action while I was nothing more than a prop. They had placed tubes in each of my wrists, and a mask completely covering my nose and…
Always room to laugh Never room to cry Being in place Then going astray Dreaming & praying For our hardships To go their way This, too, all will pass That’s what they say Will it come soon, I ask, When we all hear the words Finally, and at last This painful tide Is washed out…