Number of comments: 0 The frost covered the fields across from our house as we pulled out the driveway just past dawn. The mostly-full moon shined bright in the pale morning sky. I turned the stereo on and "A Whiter Shade Of Pale," by Procol Harum filled the air. I sipped coffee from a [...]
Number of comments: 0 I'm sick and damn tired of pretending every thing is okay. It's not okay. It sucks not being able to drive. It's just a damn hassle all the time. If I want an allergy shot or a haircut, or if I have to do anything that requires going in town,' [...]
Number of comments: 0 A man that can't face his fears is good for nothing but fertilizer.
Because Leslie works in Western's math department, I got asked to play drums for a math symposium this week. The speaker illustrates to audiences how music is basically math. Trouble is, I told Leslie the [...]
Number of comments: 0 I just need a break from pain; pain from pressure, pain from drumming; pain from politics; pain from people with different politics; pain from digging trenches; pain from pain. But mostly, I need a scotch, single malt, please. [...]
Number of comments: 0 There are times I'm deeply troubled about the changes in my life. Sometimes I wonder if I know myself at all. It seems strange that I've gone from growing up in a family that rarely attended church, then became a devout Christian at age 25, only to find myself questioning [...]
Number of comments: 0 My mother refused to talk about politics or religion with anyone. She just flat out would not do it. I always thought it was because she didn't know much about either subject, but now I realize it was because she knew far more than I gave her credit for. I' [...]
Number of comments: 0 I walked out into the early morning mist. The sun had not yet surfaced the horizon. It's light sent a clear blue hue across the sky. I stood beneath a low tree branch and gazed out over the field across the road from our yard. The cattle that did move,' [...]
Number of comments: 0 The Republicans voted against $870 m for pandemic flu preparedness in the stimulus package. Oh yeah, they really want to protect our country. Maybe we'll get lucky and they won't wear a mask to their tea parities. [...]
Number of comments: 2 I'm sick of these Tea Baggers. The America I grew up in supported the president that won. The conservatives who are advocating rebellion should find another country. You lost the election. Deal with it.
And I'm sick of people saying these tea parties are about God and country, [...]
Really, are people really seriously taking any of this blogging crap seriously? I think they are. But how can they? It's just foolish crap that people vent about. But I read comments on my blog like people think it's going to change the fucking world or something. Damn ... they're' [...]
Number of comments: 6 A close friend of mine found out yesterday that according to Kentucky state laws, he has to pay the state back for half of what his ex-wife gets in assistance from the state; food stamps, her rental assistance, her medical, probably even her tampons, provided she's got enough sense to' [...]
Number of comments: 17 Fox News commentator, Sean Hannity, recently stated on his website discussion board that there has been a lot of talk lately about an armed revolt against the government of the United States of America. Of course, Hannity is inferring that this talk is in reaction to the new Obama administration. [...]
Number of comments: 0 I walked to the end of my road today. Before coming down with diverticulitis a few months back, I walked that three miles daily. It feels much longer now. I thought of turning around before I reached halfway, but kept going. The wind beat against me, steadily trying to deter [...]
Number of comments: 0 Appropriate lyrics for our time. Turn on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC or any other, "so called," news outlet for your daily fix, but you're still all hicks as far as I can see. Politicians . . . "Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV, And you think you're" [...]
Number of comments: 2 Today as our nation pays tribute to its 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, on the 200th anniversary of his birth, I'm reminded that no one influenced my life more than Lincoln. My mother used to travel quite a bit. Whenever we visited Illinois, most all restaurant receipts had the logo, "Land'" [...]
Number of comments: 0 ABC News announced this morning that Merrill Lynch secretly moved up its plan to pay its top 14 executives $250 million in bonuses just before they announced a forth quarter loss of $15 billion; then they asked tax payers for an additional $20 billion to help with its deal with [...]
Number of comments: 0 Just relieved myself outside in the rain. As I did so, it occurred to me that the whole world is really just one big latrine. Go ahead, flush that commode; it's all just one big sewage dump anyway. How does it feel to know we're living on the the biggest' [...]
Number of comments: 0 I must've sounded pretty depressed in my last blog entry, "Rest in Peace." I've been inundated with emails and comments from those who are concerned for my well being. Some have suggested medication, others counseling, and some have said they're praying for me. Now it's not that I don't appreciate' [...]
Number of comments: 3 Life has lost its luster. There is no more looking forward to anything. I feel the Winter of my life is past and Autumn is nigh. Nothing brings me joy; all is mundane. Everywhere around there is sadness. I have nothing left to write about but grief and loss. I [...]
Number of comments: 2 It's the little things about having blind spots, like trying to see where I set a glass of water, that just wear me out. I know I just poured one only minutes ago in the kitchen. I recall my actions to make sure. I had been writing and decided to' [...]
Number of comments: 0 Well,This blog wants to be about the weirdness of slowly losing one's eyesight while dealing with hearing loss at the same time, but fate keeps steering it in other directions. What do you do when you're driving on the wrong road and you realize you took a wrong turn? You [...]
I joined facebook and must say that it's been rather enlightening. Last Friday night some of our "well to do" friends invited several musicians to a jam session at their house.
In case you're not familiar with facebook, the way it works is that you sign up and then your' [...]
Number of comments: 0 I wrote a blog, or should I say a rant, last week, "I'm so glad, I'm so glad, I'm so glad I'm an American." It was about President Barack Obama signing two executive orders; one to close the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay within a year and another [...]
Number of comments: 0 I was diagnosed with diverticulitis yesterday. I haven't been in that much pain in years. More about the irony of how I got diverticulitis in later blog, but for now, I'm amazed at what my granddaughter, Makayla, said today. I told her I wasn't feeling good and she needs to' [...]
Number of comments: 0 Whew!
Isn't everyone breathing a sigh of relief now that Bush and Darth Vader are gone? "Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we are free at last." Free from the tyranny that paraded as patriotism and questioned our patriotism if we dared question them.
Today, President Barack' [...]
Number of comments: 0 I walked in the yard today, considering the leaves. Are they a different shade of brown than yesterday? Does the cold wind blow in another direction across the dusty fields around my Rockfield home? Do the snowflakes glimmer brighter against the gray overcast sky? Or are they a duller shade [...]
Number of comments: 3 In light of Barack Obama's inauguration, I thought I'd re-run a previous post I wrote on Friday, Feb. 22, 2008. It's titled, "Get on the bus." The Bowling Green Daily News ran it as an op-ed piece under the head line, "Don't Fear Others," Louisville's Courier-Journal titled it, "Discovering America [...]
Number of comments: 0 A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. -H.G. [...]
Number of comments: 0 For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; [...]
Number of comments: 1 I got off on the wrong foot with this blog. Its very name, “Blind but now I see,” implies that life’s adversities have taught me some sort of ancient wisdom or insight; what’s best for me and my fellowman and all that. Well, I’m confessing here and now that it [...]
Number of comments: 1 I just don't think I've ever known anyone who's more of an idiot then me. I think the Ghost of Christmases to Come must have visited me this year because I now realize the bitterness and anger I allowed into my life will make me a miserable old man, if [...]
Number of comments: 0 After the presidential election was over and Barack Obama won, I removed some of my more colorful blogs about the Republican Party. But I've had a request to repost them. So, I'm going to post three of them together: Anti-Abortion Annie, War-Party and Gimmie Shelter. As a side note, I [...]
Number of comments: 1 I don’t brag about it much but I figure I can do anything I want. I grew up swinging a steel hammer in my family’s ornamental iron shop and beating drums like a madman. I’ve loaded and unloaded steel trucks by hand for hours at a time. And as most [...]
Number of comments: 1 Worms never rest; they burrow and gnaw, waiting your demise.
They care not if you’ve wasted your gifts, gave grief to the good,
stole silver from slaves or seduced your best friend's wife.
Nor does it matter if you’ve been a king or a queen,
a writer, a slave, an icon or an actor.
They [...]
Number of comments: 0 As some of you know, I removed this blog because someone thought it might be offensive to certain parties. Prior to and just after removing it, I received more positive comments, both on this blog and via email, then I have about any other blog I've written. So upon further [...]
Number of comments: 0 Would someone please tell Sarah Palin the election is over and she lost? God, I'm so sick of seeing her puffed up hair and hearing all her extra, unnecessary, words as she prattles through her brainless answers to another journalist's needless questions.
It's over Sarah! Go home! Do your job [...]
Number of comments: 2 I was moved to tears of joy when I read my wife's recent blog entry, "Someone has to die." I don't think a more loving, caring, giving or devoted wife can be found. God surely gives grace to us mortals, for I have never done anything to deserve such love [...]
Number of comments: 1 It’s finally overcast in Southern Kentucky again. Clouds cover the earth like a blanket and warn of winter’s approach. I felt strangely comforted when I rose early this morning to the dull gray hull outside my windows. Yes, I guess you could say it’s strange that I prefer dreary days. [...]
Number of comments: 0 After reviewing my last two blogs, I think it’s time I take a step back and adopt my mother’s policy on life. Often as a child, people asked her who she was going to vote for. She always replied, “I don’t talk about politics or religion.”
Maybe she was on [...]
Number of comments: 0 At a meeting Wednesday night, I noticed I’d lost more vision. Now there is an oxymoron for you, ‘I noticed I’d lost more vision.’ One might be inclined to ask, just how does one notice that they’ve lost vision if they can’t see what they’ve lost?
Well to answer that [...]
Number of comments: 1 At least 8,600 people were killed today, with thousands more wounded, when a 7.9 earthquake rocked China; twenty-two dead last weekend from killer storms that tore across three Midwestern states, Missouri, Georgia and Oklahoma; 63,000 to 100,000 killed after Cyclone Nargis slammed into Myanmar a little more than a week [...]
Number of comments: 3 A friend of mine recently told me he didn’t care if a democrat or republican became president, but what’s absolutely essential is that the president must be a born-again Christian. “This country was founded by Christians and we’ve got to have a Christian in the White House.”
Sounds good, doesn’t [...]
Number of comments: 2 I got some of the best bad news I’ve ever received yesterday. My “current” doctor said I have to be operated on to repair several torn cartilages in both knees. I can’t believe I’m excited about having surgery. That sounds sick, doesn’t it? Of course it does. But there’s a [...]
Number of comments: 3 I’m disgusted with the hypocrisy in America. We’re inundated with anti-drug commercials and the media’s obsession with entertainers in rehab, pushing the subliminal message that, “If you just get clean, then we’ll help you.” Celebrities like Robert Downy Jr. don’t worry about being denied employment, even though he was arrested [...]
Number of comments: 3 Barack Obama’s bid for president of the United States has already changed this nation for the better. I saw first-hand evidence of that on my Greyhound bus ride from Bowing Green, Ky., to Nashville, Tenn., this week. But I’ll be the first to admit I didn’t want to get on [...]
Number of comments: 6 Got a shot of some new fangled lubrication fluid in my knee today. Let me tell you, very few things match the thrill of watching a toothpick-thick, four-inch needle being stabbed underneath the kneecap. To be truthful, I didn’t watch. I glanced, and that was enough. I took solace in [...]
Number of comments: 6 The title of “homebound” was bestowed upon me this week: Me? Homebound? The word carries mental images of bedridden patients unable to care for themselves. And since I still see myself at age 51 as a strapping man, full of piss and vinegar, I admit to being caught off guard [...]
Number of comments: 0 Dealing with a disability is very defining. It defines what you can and cannot do, although I’m sure there are some handicapped people who’d take me to task for that statement. Nonetheless, it is true. I could be arrogant and say, “I can do anything anybody else [...]
Number of comments: 2 I was supposed to go to physical therapy this morning, but now that I can no longer drive, things don’t always work out as planned. My son started back to school today and my wife resumed teaching at the same institution. My wife was supposed to drop me off at [...]
Number of comments: 2 I told my wife we should go to church with my son last Sunday. “He’s had a rough week,” I said. “He needs the encouragement.”
I wasn’t excited about going and neither was my wife. We haven’t exactly been the patron saints of Sunday morning services since our mission trip to [...]
Number of comments: 3 Well, the inevitable unsolicited advice came while I was on the phone with my cousin, who is also one of my best friends. “If I was as good a drummer as you,” he said. “I’d put some earplugs in and just keep on beating those things.” With that statement, he [...]
Number of comments: 4 Sometimes I wonder if slowly going blind is like growing up again. When we’re young, we constantly observe the world to see and learn of everything about it, what it looks like, how it moves and changes from day to day, and from season to season. But once we’ve grown [...]
Number of comments: 0 Being told you’re going blind is not the shattering news you’d think it’d be. It’s more like a whisper. One of those moments where you ask yourself, “Did she just say what I think she said?” Then as the doctor proceeds to tell you that, “You have to fight this [...]
I just need a break from pain; pain from pressure, pain from drumming; pain from politics; pain from people with different politics; pain from digging trenches; pain from pain. But mostly, I need a scotch, single malt, please. 
The Republicans voted against $870 m for pandemic flu preparedness in the stimulus package. Oh yeah, they really want to protect our country. Maybe we'll get lucky and they won't wear a mask to their tea parities. 
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