Sklarvelous!

Sklarvelous!

When a friend who just happens to be a genius schleps across the country to buy you a drink, you drop what you’re doing and make sure you take them up on it.  At least that’s my mindset these days.  Once we get ten days into a month, I’ll take any offer for any sustinence … Read more

One More Alternative For Giving Tuesday

One More Alternative For Giving Tuesday

It’s Giving Tuesday, not that you didn’t already know that.  If your inbox and alerts are configured like mine, you’ve probably received well over a dozen emails and texts pointing you to noble causes and reminding you that while you’ve recently been in the midst of spending for you and your immediate loved ones over … Read more

Thankful?  Who, Me?

Thankful? Who, Me?

I hope you had a better week that I have had.  It began with a surprising convergence of recurring auto payments and annual subscriptions that even after I got last week’s paycheck left me overdrawn.    That often happens to me around the 30th or so of a month; this time it was the 25th.  … Read more

Getting Even, Steven

Getting Even, Steven

NOTE:  This also appears today on our sister site, www.thedoubleovertime.com.   Please visit it regularly for musings on sports. Yesterday should have been more celebratory for moi.  Thanks to a one-time surprise gift and some opportune timingin hitting up an aftermarket ticket site, I was able to secure a nosebleed ticket for what turned out to … Read more

Still Thirsty For Sensible Answers

Still Thirsty For Sensible Answers

If you’re one of the handful of people who have found these musings via the site formerly known as Twitter, nice to e-meet you.  But I’m afraid we probably disagree on a few issues, and based upon what I’m consistently being served up during the nanoseconds I spend on the site to share my musings, … Read more

More Than Your Average Pool Party

More Than Your Average Pool Party

It’s Labor Day Weekend, which likely means you’re in the majority of folks merely chilling, hopefully amongst people you love and ideally in an environment where you might be able to get a little sun and fun.  I realize in this day and age for many that thought is an anethema.  I’m told such folk … Read more

Tears On My Pillow.  Still.

Tears On My Pillow. Still.

Well, I woke up on my birthday.  Sorry to disappoint the person who continues to text me with threats for legal actions. So it may not be all that surprising to you that when I did wake up, after yet another sleepless night filled with stomach issues that thank goodness I am finally on a … Read more

Milestone Or Tombstone?  Sometimes, I Wonder

Milestone Or Tombstone? Sometimes, I Wonder

So tomorrow I am scheduled to have a birthday.  There’s still a few hours before it actually occurs (to be completely technical, it’s 4:10 AM Eastern time) so for those of you who might wish I don’t make it, rest assured you’ve still got hope. And I know there’s at least a couple of people … Read more

Plenty of Questions.  Far Fewer Answers.

Plenty of Questions. Far Fewer Answers.

I fully realize an awful lot of people are panicked after the events of Thursday night.  That hue and cry grew only louder when a far more robust and hale version of the man who stuttered and fumbled his way through 90 embarrassing minutes proudly and defiantly addressed a partisan crowd yesterday which HUFFPOST’s S.V. … Read more