The recent cold brought back memories of when I was a young boy growing up in Cumberland. We had a trash barrel in the backyard where, a few times a week, we would burn our trash. I know this is…

If there is someone you truly dislike, wish for them a night in an airport during a blizzard, Baltimore, Chicago, or any large airport preferably. The noises at night, snoring, crying, screaming, laughing, or complaining, coupled with the cleaning crews…

I finished a biography of Alan Turing and it got me thinking about codes and hidden things. In the techie world there’s a method called Steganography. Literally, hidden writing. I thought I would take a shot at writing something with…

Here’s a rule to live by, if your thong bikini can double as a hammock for a normal sized human find another swimwear style How to solve the perceived problem with Police shootings, make omniscience a job requirement. It seems…

There are as many ideas and concepts about post-mortal existence as there are people on this planet. In the vast universe, the conceptualization of what happens after death is likely, well, universal. We hold onto our life. We sometimes go…

With all the turmoil in the world, the viciousness of political divisiveness, the violent dogma of religious zealotry, we can learn something about perspective, From a sunset. At any given point in time the sun exists in all it’s various…

Upon our entrance into this world, the first touch for most of us is a human hand, a doctor or nurse, mid-wife, or even a Good Samaritan. Hands play such an important part of our lives, guiding us, holding us,…

We have two Yorkies, Ralph and Max.  As you can see from this image.  They enjoy doing nothing.  They quite enjoy it, actually.  We can learn much from their approach to a happy life. The rules are simple. Upon awaking…

My wife and I decided to go for a walk in the woods today. Nothing like the Appalachian Trail, mind you, just a short, pleasant walk. We headed to a trail in Cumberland off Angel Road, the Veronica Geddes Bowen…

In a recent Op-ed piece, Tom Ward, the editor of the Valley Breeze (a local Rhode Island newspaper focused on the Blackstone Valley area) bemoaned the difficulty of police departments in dealing with the issue of marijuana.  He described the…