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Pat’s Bits and Pieces: Recovering and complaining

Pat’s Bits and Pieces: Recovering and complaining

Jordan WilcoxJan 20, 20234 min read

Most of the time, I consider myself pretty lucky. I am nearly 77 and other than having my tonsils out at 5 or 6 years old, have not had many hospital visits or stays, other than for certain tests, a…

Blue Star

Blue Star

Jordan WilcoxJan 18, 20235 min read

By Scott SullivanEditorPsycho ImageMy imaginary polar trip, paired with Ron and Maggie Coghlin’s real one, was past desperate. They’d passed through a Buenos Aires flower cooler down wood steps to 100-foot basement bar for cocktails. Maggie’s absinthe was served with…

Life as Performance Art

Life as Performance Art

Jordan WilcoxJan 18, 20237 min read

 Harry and Megs recalled a conversation Mother had with me over half a century ago.  I don’t know what brought it on, although it was probably a long-winded telephone monologue from her friend Juanita. Juanita would call several times a week,…

Mike’s Musings: Who cares who has classified documents? Not I

Mike’s Musings: Who cares who has classified documents? Not I

Jordan WilcoxJan 18, 20233 min read

Much ado about nothing, or so that’s what I would call the most recent hysteria about classified documents. As background for those not following the storyline, classified documents which President Biden was required to return to the federal government at…

Pat’s Bits and Pieces: I’m not absent minded – it’s gremlins

Pat’s Bits and Pieces: I’m not absent minded – it’s gremlins

Jordan WilcoxJan 13, 20234 min read

It has been that kind of month.You know what I mean. The kind where you lose something and then find it right in front of you…I just spent about a half-hour looking for my phone, but then that happens nearly…

Sunday Football with the Gardener

Sunday Football with the Gardener

Jordan WilcoxJan 13, 20234 min read

We watch football together when the opportunity allows. In fact, we’ve viewed a lot of footfall in the same space through our many years together. We make odd viewing companions. He is, of course, a lifelong football fanatic, coming from…