You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Little Magellan. The teenager with the long hair and optimistic smile, turned 20 last week. It seems like just yesterday that I was taking him to soccer practice and buying him cleats. Now he’s in college, a sophomore, no longer a teenager. Where does the time […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy. TWITTER NEWS “I get all my news from Twitter,” someone recently told me. They smiled. They were proud. They had the look of an erudite basset hound that had successfully lifted their leg and urinated on the correct mail box post. “You get all your news […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ The Dead Battery on the Brand New Car. The dealership says it’s a freak of nature. “Just a bad battery,” the service tech says. “It’s one of those European models,” the tow truck man says. “It could’ve been sitting around for 3 years in a factory […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Black Friday on Thanksgiving Thursday. It’s half time of the Bears v Lions football game and my phone lights up. It’s a news alert: CROWDS LINE UP OUTSIDE J.C. PENNEY FOR BLACK FRIDAY. POLICE RESPOND. I stare at the words and rub my belly full of […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Fire and Fury. California is on fire. It’s like a big orange bomb has exploded across the sky and wiped homes off the map. Southern California is ablaze. Towns in Northern California have been vaporized. It happened fast, in the middle of the night, like a […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Losing a friend. Black Jack was a friend. He was a 14 year old Black Lab. He lived a wonderful life full of long walks, duck hunts, tennis ball retrievals and baked hams stolen from the kitchen counter when nobody was looking. If Labs are friendly, […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™ The Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre. Like glass shattering in a quiet sanctuary, the breaking news disrupts a peaceful Saturday morning. SHOTS FIRED IN PITTSBURGH. MASS SHOOTING. MULTIPLE FATALITIES. The images are so sad, yet so predictable. SWAT teams. Armored Personnel Carriers. Families hugging, crying in the street. […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ The Pot Mafia. There is a growing contingent of American Marijuana Proponents who have gone from pot heads to boots on the ground marijuana militia. As the number of states legalize pot, the legion of cannabis crusaders grows exponentially. In the old days, pot heads took […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Hurricane Florence. This Category 2 beast came across the outer banks at 100 miles an hour. Wind and water pummeled the Tar Heel state like a sand blaster ripping paint off an old Buick. People were evacuated. Rescue personnel responded. Media members stood in the gale, […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ That Little Tingle. It’s a thunderbolt down your spine. It’s an electric pulse across your consciousness. It’s the spark that ignites life’s internal fuse. The tingle inside you can be the difference between living life and going through the motions. The tingle is the excitement you […]