Not-so-random thoughts on random topics

When I blow out the birthday candles on my cake this year, I wouldn't know what to wish for. I want nothing and I certainly don't ne...

On the eve of my four months retirement from corporate America, it happens to be the eve of the wedding of my two good friends, B and J.  B ...

We've enjoyed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of sunsets.  It's the same yellow fireball that goes up and down every 24 hours, for mil...

I have been staring at the computer screen for 30 minutes.  Nothing.  I feel hypocritical.  On one hand saying I don't want to treat Fe...

Here I am.  A little more than two weeks to the anniversary of Eric's death, I tried to remind myself that a date on the calendar is...

Most of us don't. Why would we?   It's new year's eve.  Traditionally, symphonies perform Beethoven's Ninth Symphony Ode ...

There are days I would feel pronouncedly alone.  Not lonely.  Alone.  I feel I have to engage in a battle against the world, alone.  But, th...