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But Daddy, I'm a GROWN-UP!

The Winter holiday season is upon us, the end of yet another year of….whatever it was you did this year.  You’re probably headlong into Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or Ramadan shopping with last Thursday’s poultry but a distant memory.  But I’m prone to reflection and I’d like to shed a little light on the meaning of Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving [...]

Home is where…?

Oh, there’s no place like home for the holidays, or so the song says.  But where is home, exactly?

I live with my Aunt E, in what I consider her home. She’s lived in this apartment for about 20 years, in this town for over 40 years, and raised 2 children here.  Her church is here, as [...]

Cruisin' for a bruisin'

Even at my age, if someone wanted to gather together a group of my peers and engage us in some age-appropriate activities I’d be on it like a Westside whore on a New Jersey businessman. [...]

Love...exciting and new.

Norwegian Sky: Its no Love Boat

Any child of the 1970s who has been aboard a cruise will likely have the same reaction.  Why isn’t this ship like the one from The Love Boat?  And why couldn’t you just skip the Pacific Princess and drive to Puerta Vallarta from LA?    That last part is probably [...]