Missed Opportunities

At a recent party we attended I found myself in like next to a gent I had met before, didn’t know his name and he probably didn’t know mine, but he said Hello! I’ve always been kinda….socially inept, worried that I won’t know what to say. I said, what have you been doing, just recently? … Continue reading Missed Opportunities

Let the Lower Lights Be Burning!

It’s a line from a great old hymn which probably nobody else will recognize, but that’s okay. It comes to mind this Autumn because, although the Poconos have always been known for our brilliant autumn colours, this year was disappointing. The leaves in the canopy, the high,mature trees, just..turned brown and fell off. I have … Continue reading Let the Lower Lights Be Burning!

ā€The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places..ā€

September 11. I woke up and turned on the TV, hoping to hear that they had caught Charlie Kirk’s killer. The screen blossomed with the roiling, fulminating smoke of the twin towers giving up the ghost on that awful day 24 years ago.Yesterday I saw the video of Charlie Kirk’s shooting. His rose-red lifeblood bursting, … Continue reading ā€The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places..ā€

ā€œJust Born Into The Wrong Bodyā€

Another trans guy has shot up a buncha kids. And last night on Fox, Trace Gallagher reverently welcomed Bruce ā€œCaitlinā€ Jenner, whom we’re all s’posed to love on the sole ground that he opposes men playing in women’s sports. His bass voice breaking, he tearfully opined that murder isn’t trans, Cock Robin (the latest shooter) … Continue reading ā€œJust Born Into The Wrong Bodyā€