Category Archives: Essays

The Richest Man In The World

So deep are memories that course through my brain that even after all these years, his memories are my memories, his dreams are my dreams, his hopes are my hopes. I cannot be any other than who I am. I carry on a legacy and his life. I carry the memories we made inside me. They are treasures… Read More »

Feeling Scroogy

I’m feeling Scroogy today. I went to the local drug store yesterday morning to get something and Christmas music was playing. The store was decorated in its glittering Christmas best. This drug store was the last great holdout. When I say drug store, I must qualify that. This store was nothing like the drug stores of my youth.… Read More »

The Child Inside

I don’t mind those first few cold days of winter. I think the pristine whiteness of that first measurable snowfall is beautiful – and the newly white world serene and breathtaking. I like the way the sound cracks in the cold, clear, crisp air and I love to look at the skeletons of the summer trees when they… Read More »

With a Single Flake of Snow

With a single flake of snow, winter begins. Like that first faint shadow of twilight, we hardly take notice of it. The autumn leaves, glorious and resplendent, catch our attention as we hurry through our lives; but that first flake of snow is the sentry of winter and we like to pretend it is not there. We go… Read More »

We may never see Windows 10

Darcy and I have differing opinions on Windows 8. She thinks it’s great, I think Microsoft made a huge mistake. In typical Microsoft fashion, they decided to make a one-size-fits-all operating system. Apple makes a different operating system for its phones and tablets than the one it uses on its laptops and desktops. Microsoft seems to want to… Read More »