Still Crazy After All These Years I’ll be 73 in a couple of weeks, and this is usually when I look back over my life and take stock of where I’ve come so far. I’ve been an aficionado of marijuana since I was 17. Sorry, Nancy; I just couldn’t say “no.” And yes, in my case…

I Smoke Weed, Too. And if You Have a Problem With Any of That, That’s Exactly What it Is: YOUR Problem — It ain’t my problem. It’s yours. I grew up a PK (Preachers Kid), so my knowledge not only of the Bible but how it was written, translated, misquoted and misunderstood is not only at least as good as yours, but if you’re like the majority of so-called Christians in this…

Gonna Force Us All to Use Grammarly? ProWritingAid? Hemingway? — I only ask because you’ve just forced us to have all of our pages look the same, and I’m concerned your next move will be to make all of our posts sound the same. Which is what so many “writing assistant” programs have as their unstated yet oh-so-obvious goals: eliminating…

More Drippings From My Weird Brain — • What if Mary Magdalene and Jesus were married? Or siblings? Or maybe even twins? • I’ve watched so many British TV shows that it looks weird when Americans get into their cars. • another difference between cats and dogs: with a dog, when you come home from even a…

The crocuses bloom Purple, yellow, and white, too. Can Spring be far off?

But Hey, At Least it Just Might Help Your Headache — The United States of America is the only country in the world other than New Zealand that allows drug companies to advertise their products directly to consumers. The United States of America also has the highest costs of prescription medications of any other country in the world. In the U.S…

And Why They’re Not Important to Me — I’ve been writing on Medium for a long time. Almost as long as Medium has been around. But you’d never know that from looking at my statistics. Seven years is a long time to have been writing on any given platform, but you’d never know it from a casual glance…

Mo was 18 Years Old We called him Mo, short for Mohawk. As a kitten, he was completely white, except for the black stripe that ran from his nose, down his back, to the tip of his tail. …

Otherwise, I’d Have No Time For Medium — The last time I checked I had almost 1858 followers on Medium. I know so little about checking my statistics that I have no idea how many people I follow, but it’s a list that grows larger with each passing week. That’s because I have two rules I follow when…