
Most of my good news submissions have been (hopefully) amusing reminiscences or things that make me happy, I don't know that they necessarily fall into the news category, so if they don't fit hold on to your socks, here we go again with a reflection upon being happy when some …

Sometimes when the sandman seems to be busy somewhere else I sit and ponder on things, and being a bit of a contrarian sometimes those thoughts turn to evil things, not hurt people evil, but serves people right evil.

How can words capture what the lover's heart knows?
Deepest feelings in places safely hidden,
you can feel them but they deny all prose,
felt, but never to come forth when bidden.
Words, gentle words come forth I humbly pray,
let loose your hold and with flowery words
let t …

In a scene in the movie, "The Longest Day," a guy was talking for a long time to a rather patient fellow, and when he left another walked up and asked the patient listener who was doing all of the talking, "I don't know, he just needed somebody to talk to."

Life, like seasons, slowly passes onward
As childhood hopes transform to mature dreams
Never standing, ever moving forward
As simple plans transform to complicated schemes.
Sweet is youth and so too is joyous spring
Where gentle rain bring flowers sweetest blooms,
And carefree da …

I've actually never been to the home of somebody working for the DMV, but I'm almost certain they don't have a line on the floor they won't let you cross to talk to them.

A long time ago I sat down with a young troop that planned to ask his girlfriend to marry him, he was happy and enthusiastic about the whole thing and wanted some advice from somebody that had been married a while and I've been known to wax eloquently, or endlessly on any numbe …

The Lord of the Rings, an epic work of six books bound in three volumes, could have been told in half the pages, a third, it could have even been told as a short story, and thankfully it wasn't.

Its supposed to be better to light a candle than to curse the darkness, but no one cursing is even cursing the darkness they are too busy cursing who they think made it dark.

Men are funny about matters of grooming. I personally spent a long time with definitive limits on what I could look like. Hair only so long, sideburns can't go below here, moustache can only be worn like so.

So here we are sitting in our chairs, thinking about the keynote that has just gone by, pondering to ourselves, "Well, that was less then spectacular." I to found myself wondering what was going to be the big media backlash from this event, since there was no really spectacular it