General Interest

Well, it’s St. Patrick’s Day and the one-quarter Irish blood in my veins is flowing green. Courtesy of my sainted granny, born Bridget Moffet on a bleak farm hard by the Atlantic coast of Ireland, I am one-quarter irish. Truth be told, I feel more Irish than than anything else, I suppose because of my

Look at me, I’m a Modern Man. I do modern things, pushing buttons, clicking my mouse, downloading, uploading, sending data across the World Wide Web, getting crucial bulletins from cyberspace. How are things in Glocca Mora? Why speculate? Google it and see. When I leave my master console I’m still connected, iPhone at the ready,

Open the door. Go outside. Take a look around. You never know what you’re going to run across. Maybe something cool and different, maybe not. You’ll never know, though, until you open the door and cruise around. Check the streets, check the stores, walk through the parks. Keep your eyes and ears open. There’s a

The heck with all that bad news circulating lately. It’s getting pretty monotonous so perhaps this is a day to ignore all that. We are not presidents and kings with the world on our shoulders and we’re not magicians who can Abra Cadabra life’s troubles away. What we can do, however, is change the world

Today is Inauguration Day, when history is being made with the swearing in of America’s first black president. That’s nice. Now let’s talk guitar solos! We’ll pretend that having a black president is no big deal, like it ought to be if you’ve ever read the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution with

Live fast, die young. How many of our rock & roll heroes have done just that? Drug overdoses, cirrhosis, car crashes, suicide, you-name-it, rock & rollers have been making grand exits for as long there’s been rock & roll. Even Elvis checked out too soon, only 42 years old. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison,

Well, here we are, living in yesterday’s future, the only place we can possibly be. With any luck, we’ll be here tomorrow, which is today’s future. It’s a pretty good system considering some of our yesterdays. Tomorrow is never a bad day, unless you’ve got an appointment for a root canal or something. For the

What fools we are. We build air castles, long for things we may never have, wish for a better way of life and a better world. In short, we dream. Our dreams are smooth and shiny, and they glow with a soft, appealing light. They are born in our minds, carefully nurtured and fed until

It was 105 years ago today that humans had their minds lifted into the clouds. It was on this day in 1903 that a couple of high school dropouts who looked like refugees from a barber shop quartet first took to the air. Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright of Dayton, Ohio not only made the