Bull Shit! And When Not To!

Yes. There it is in one compact phrase. Be thou not disdainful of the truth when bull shit is not appropriate. Well, lets figure this out. Ilearned to Bullshit in a masterful fashion on the stages of small coffeehouses where you offered up a lifetime of experiences as an intorduction to a song. You'd pull …

Carving From A Book?

The worn and dogeared paperback copy still sits on the shelves with my many other books on woodwork and carving. It's E.J. Tangerman's book Whittling And Woodcarving. It's probably been in print continuously since it's first publication in 1936. So it's been the introduction to carving for many thousands interested in the hobby, craft and …

Feelin’ All Right…Happiness

eagle weathervane

Traveling around in the sixties, I got lots of perspectives on what people thought happiness was. Well, for everyone but me. I was sometimes moving so fast it was a blur, a sort of Doppler shift of experiences and locations. Zoom...I was outta there! Of course, a lot of my rationale for moving around was …

Gig…No…No Gig

I had two intense nine-hour and then twelve-hour work days together this week. It's unusual, but for some reason, things at the station and the needs of people just exploded. So my travel guitar, Charlie, has hung on the wall mostly silent. Yes, I am back to pretty much daily practice again. But as I …

Frankly, My Dear, I don’t give a damn

A woman typing on a typewriter imagining a political debate scene in a legislative chamber

That's right! How have I grown this year? It's in the things for which I don't give a damn! There are a host of things that don't upset me so much as they did. Nope. I don't bounce about the room in rage, or go on patrol to terminate those on "the enemies list." It …

Young Fool

Winding river in a mountain valley under dramatic storm clouds with patches of sunlight

Give my twenty-year-old self advice? Let's see, put it into a horoscope? Or appear to the sleeping lout, I mean Lou, out of a bright incandescent cloud, brandishing a book of future events? Nah...he just figured it was some bad weed he'd smoked. Actually the young fool alredy had access to some very useful advice. …

Cats Rule and Dogs Drool

A guide to forming healthy boundaries in a relationship? You've come to the right place. Ever since ancient Egypt, when we domesticated humans, we have struggled with this. Frankly, it's often been a bit of a mess. Just as soon as you think you've struggled to the crest of the pile of blankets on the …

Mars Or Bust?

Domed Mars habitat base with multiple geodesic structures, vehicles, and astronauts

It's a long way to Mars, and it's not going to be either a cheap trip or a cheap job to get a settlement established. So my questions are not so much if we can or should do it, but what sort of terms and conditions will exist if we do it. Who foots the …

Is Winter Coming? Get The Tardis Ready!

Ohhh, it's wrong at so many levels, but I like it. As satire, it lays bare what's wrong with our love of memes, a sort of reduction to triteness of things. But we probably love them just because we yearn to squeeze some humor from the increasingly humorless situations of life. There they are, hero …

Town Meeting

Crowded town meeting with people shouting and holding 'No New Taxes!' signs

Today it's the government's turn to take a beating. New England is infamous, I mean famous, for our Town Meeting form of government. Now I don't mean your jumped-up city council, representative forms, Mayor, or other big city things. No Town Meeting is Annual in the spring, and maybe a special one in the fall …