Despite the rumors, my prolonged absence is not because I am busy counting lottery winnings, nor have I gone off my meds and begun the killings again.  The sad truth is that I have a complete lack of

A year ago, our nation’s foreign adventurism was no more than something I saw stories about on cable TV when there was nothing better on, and now I suddenly have no less than three relatives dodging

No one is more keenly aware than I  that I have been sadly remiss in my bloggish duties, and that, all over America, ones of people are crying, "What ho?"  And it would be nice to say that I have had

Last week, on the second day of a perfect weekend, George and I took Mom to the local cemetery to plant some flowers on the family graves.  Our local cemetery - especially the older part which holds

And what can it be that has our DavidShag dancing in the streets, making little yelps of joy and generally behaving in a way that may cause the pursed lips and hairy eyeballs of the authorities to fo