Ah, well, now, wasn’t that all very pleasant, eh? A few alco-pops to celebrate a year with my sweetheart, yes, an anniversary in other words, and, ooh, I feel a bit sick all of a sudden, and, oh, heck, I seem to be spewing black blood down the pan. Hmmm. Not so good after all. […]
For many years I maintained confidence in my personal identity. I knew exactly who I was and was quite comfortable in my skin. Although, I must confess my skin used to fit me better than it does these days.
Recently several things happened to shake this confidence in my person. I don’t know about anyone else, […]
He made his mind and decided that he would not allow it to happen any longer. He wanted to be alone, quite and silent. But this power was too much to handle. It was reaching him, invading his spaces and in a certain way, was taking all his being.
There was neither joy nor sadness that […]
A Sunday jog in the parklands
After a week of stress and an equally stressful weekend, there’s nothing I like better than a nice quiet jog in the woods to get back to nature and burn off a box of Cheeze-Its. The family had headed off to morning mass leaving me to enjoy the solace and […]
I always know when April makes its yearly debut without consulting the calendar because my wife usually says, “Let’s clean out the garage today.” Trust me on this one, it is no April fool’s joke, but someone gets fooled. And believe me, I’m just not anybody’s fool. I’m my wife’s fool.
Somehow, her “let’s” has a […]
It should have been a simple task. Just go to the drugstore and buy a razor. Not even one of those highly complex computerized electric razors you need an advanced degree in electrical engineering to operate, just a plain old manual model with which I could joyfully hack away at my face. It was not […]
I almost had a garden this year. Then the earwigs took over my lettuce. The grasshoppers confiscated all my zucchini and various other flying insects shared the sunflowers. The gophers leveled one row in an afternoon. They enjoyed a healthy salad. I did get one meal of peas and one […]
The Irish are renowned for their quick wit and ability to even laugh at themselves. Below are a few favourite Irish jokes meant to be taken in the spirit they were written in.
Paddy was with his mates in a bar in his local village. Jaysus lads says Paddy, the wife is pregnant again. And sure […]
Many people may not realize this, but did you know that Jesus was an illegal alien too? Think of it. He really was wasn’t he? You know at first I did not believe it either, I thought to my self this cannot be real, until I saw him there. That’s right folks;
As a matter of […]
All my life I have had tremendous sexual energy. Lust that’s been hard to work off. If this Olympian type carnality could have been properly harnessed… I would have been like King Solomon.
With five hundred descendants.
And God help the world if that was the case. One of me is enough.
When you lust all the time, […]