This is dedicated to the ones I love. In the past my heart and head have proved fickle. Or was it pickled. I know a pickle a day keeps the doctor away because that is the truth I learned from those sellers of pickles in wooden barrels. I know that the heart of a...
Connectividad
A place for the dailies cousins and Ms. Whooziewhatzitwhoozeewho’s diatribes (something to do with rubbing in the lectures – probably like basting the brain).
i am a ghost
My mother used to call me her star but she was wrong. I am a ghost, not a star. Sometimes other ghosts see me; sometimes people that aren’t ghosts see me. It’s not like this is startling news since ghosts have been around for a long time. They live on the fringe of society....
Popeye Theory Kaput
Note: The following piece was originally posted on the first DN in honor of Valentines Day. There are those who view the world with pre-Einsteinian philosophies. They’re not convinced that the world is round or that gravity curves space. I refer to a popular philosophy of these people as the Popeye Theory. Everything in...
Schmatas, a case for same sex marriage 3/3
As I am reminded of my mother’s schmatas and schmatas of the past, I am also aware that any two women can choose, at any time, to walk down the Ocean Grove boardwalk, arms linked in intimacy, wearing schmatas. And apparently nobody can stop them. If this doesn’t show the impoverished and impotent ability of the...
Schmatas a case for same sex marriage 2/3
Is it more important to challenge the freedom to marry the person of the same sex on the boardwalk when, as many know, at low tide the stink of seagull poop and dried Sargasso can challenge anyone’s nostrils, or to protect the unarmed public from the view of anyone walking down the boardwalk in...
Schmatas, a case for same sex marriage part 1/3
I am far off my main topic today, the issue of whether gays should be able to marry on the Ocean Grove boardwalk. That’s not my concern since the topic of marriage is so fraught with and compromised with value issues, issues of ownership and relationship. I think the topic is best to avoid...