Reaction to Random Catalysts

Almost two months ago, when I started this blog, I had explained that virtually all my fiction from this point forward is ongoing out of my head--as opposed to pieces from my file of previously written works. My current fiction piece, Red Country Mile, was an incomplete work I had written in the... Sign in to see full entry.

When I heard today that congress had defunded Planned Parenthood of federal dollars, I was almost ecstatic. It is a big sham that the American tax-payer has been flipping the bill for a procedure he or she does not believe in. Pro-life people of conscience should not have to be made to support... Sign in to see full entry.

I missed posting a blog last night on account of losing internet connection. In some ways its ironic. Bank establishments, for instance, have gone so much to computers, that some come practically to a stand still when there is a crash in the system. In my case, there was an outage in the area for my... Sign in to see full entry.

One of the times I re-visited my hometown in recent years, I saw the effect of the box store that came in there. I did not like that the local photography store had gone out of business or that a hardware store had gone out of business and also a clothier store. What was the hometown? Now it was not... Sign in to see full entry.

I was fascinated and stimulated a few years ago when I listened to a book on tape, Great Ideas, by Mortimer Adler. He discussed the matter of democracy and its two major ideas, freedom and equality. I don't remember all the details of his treatise now, but the gist of it was how there is an... Sign in to see full entry.

Having just finished watching the BBC miniseries War and Peace on Netflix, I am reminded of Tolstoys writing of his characteriazation. No one is better at seamlessly showing characters change over time. Pierre started out as a drinking gambler, then turned to Free Masonry, but finally graduated to... Sign in to see full entry.

Hoagie Carmichael, or so I heard from Randy Bachman on the radio ( Randy's Vinyll Tap on CBC), had a sandwich named after him. I was familiar with the name, but I had always assumed that the sandwich came first and that Carmichael may or may not have been named after it. Carmichael, an actor, also... Sign in to see full entry.

One of the things that irks me the most is when I am taking my lunch tote out of the work refrigerator and it has soda pop spilled over it, or it is resting in the spill. I think if people open a can of pop during a break, they should drink it all down. Otherwise, they put it back into the crowded... Sign in to see full entry.

Tomorrow I am supposed to turn in my self-evaluation. So, I finally worked on it today. I dread filling them out, because I am asked to meet the fine balance about being honest about my performance and at the same time puffing myself up in framed answers that are supposed to make me look like I am... Sign in to see full entry.

My girlfriend had explained to me that there are clean people, like herself; messy people who are lazy; and messy people who are hoarders. I am a hoarder. Today I garnered another piece. I have a TV tray that annoys me, but I have kept it because I find it functional. In the crevices of the rounded... Sign in to see full entry.