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September 20, 2016

Flora-Bama

Flora-Bama In 1989 I was just out of AOCS, starting flight school. Initially I was living in the BOQ until I got back together with X1 for the next to the last time. My bud, Mike had found an ...


September 18, 2016

Oculus

So I am watching Oculus, because I can and have nothing better to do. There is a scene where Karen Gillan is leaning against a Jaguar in heels and a short skirt. Her red hair hanging down over ...


September 17, 2016

Good one, Bro

Posted on Faceplant by a brother I went through AOCS and flight school with. He went on to become Navy EOD, then became a Private Military Contractor working in Israel, Iraq, and Afghanistan. N...


September 15, 2016

Splat

I’ll call this summer the summer of “Splat.” Because any time it has rained it rained for ten minutes, and then the sun came out. I will admit it has been pleasant. A perfect summer, other tha...


The strange Maine weather continues. Both dry and humid. Dry in that we have not really had any real rain all summer. Humid in that it is sticky as hell out there. I am running both air cond...


September 09, 2016

The Church of Your Heart

Well. Poop. I added B12 to my vitamin mix and now guess who can’t, despite not having any problems going to sleep for the better part of six months, can’t get to sleep? Damn, there is nothing l...


September 09, 2016

Complex


September 09, 2016

Venus

Nothing hotter than a partially covered female nipple. Great body. I can get over the belly button ring. But what the fuck is inked on her belly? Is that a smiley face? A dead bird laying...



September 03, 2016

Isabel

Isabel is waiting In a room of many shadows Her eyes like flashing diamonds Shining brightly from the sea Her hair in silken tresses Like a robe around her shoulders Hiding tantalising treasures...


” . . . Those attributes of naval aviators—willingness to take intelligent calculated risk, self-confidence, even a certain swagger—that are invaluable in wartime are the very ones that make them...


August 31, 2016

Eldorado

Eldorado “The painted ladies of the Avalon Play in the sun, Take to the road, To the North there lies the chills of cold, To the South there lies the tales untold. But in between there lies T...


August 29, 2016

Letter from Spain

I read the papers this morning I saw your photograph You look good in the movie It must be so much fun. Letter from Spain From someone I once knew Letter from Spain. I got a letter this morning...


August 28, 2016

Mike Rowe

Mike Rowe, the host of “Dirty Jobs” said a woman wrote to him and told him she was “impressed by him” for many years, but she said that came to an end when she discovered he “never volunteered to...


August 27, 2016

Cloud Surfing

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August 26, 2016

Telephone Line

I received an Amber Alert on my cell phone. How odd. As soon as I clicked “ok” it disappeared. I guess it came in through the 911 part of the phone. I am not out and about today, so I didn’t...


I woke up, had my water with lemon. Thought about coffee but declined. Watched the clock until my bank branch opened at 9AM. It is only about 5 minutes away and I arrived right on time. I told...


August 23, 2016

So.

So. I had a phone meeting to go over my daughter’s situation with the Social Security Administration. Said meeting was set at 11AM yesterday. 5 Minutes before 11 I grabbed my phone and sat down...


August 21, 2016

Pacific Ocean Blues

Weird day. I tried to sleep in, but if I get up to pee and there is anything approximating sunlight visible I am up for the day. Days are getting shorter, but my east facing bathroom means li...


August 20, 2016

My Favorite Regret

Will you be my favorite regret, Could I be your sweetest mistake? Trade one step back for two ahead Just a little time that’s all Don’t be afraid to fall This catch I won’t forget, My favorite r...


August 15, 2016

Baby, Baby.

Sometimes, when the news gets you down. You gotta remember there is still sweetness in this world. My cousin’s granddaughter. Truth is I don’t know what that makes her to me, or me to her. But...


The Girl Friend Experience There is/was a show on STARZ called GFE. I recorded all 12 episodes and have only made it to the third episode. I am a little incredulous, because in the first episod...


August 11, 2016

Ghosts of Bath and Harding

I had to do some mental gymnastics and math to try to remember when it was my father spent two years in Viet Nam. I came to the conclusion it was 1969 to 1971, when I was 7 and 8. I have this ...


August 09, 2016

Just Another Summer Tuesday

The weather this summer has been spectacular. Which means the summer people come and stay, and stay, and stay. Clogging the roads and the stores and the beaches. My annual lament! Just when th...


July 31, 2016

Need her Love

I’ve this itchy need to write feeling all day. I just didn’t know what to write. So. let’s take a ride, shall we? I am back on the Dragon. There is always a learning curve turning this program...


Book Description

The random and sundry. The sacred and profane. The pleasure and the pain.

Warning: I crack myself up sometimes