I Have Often Wondered Why

When campaigning for the U.S. Senate in 1962, Ted Kennedy found himself talking to a blue-collar worker who said bluntly, "I understand you've never worked a day in your life."
Kennedy braced himself for a resentful lecture, only to be...

     From our mothers to our wives and lovers, it's always a woman that keeps things normal.  When it comes down to nearly everything that matters... she's just there.      A hell of a responsibility when you think about it...

Friends love misery. In fact, sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends." - Erica Jong

    I didn't much care about the end of the world... I was more worried about the Yankees and baseball.  I was eight years old after all.... walking round the farm with a transistor radio as we worked... wondering if Mantle and...

    I always grieve when a man of true talent dies, as the world needs then so much more than heaven does.     It's been thirty one years today.     Even the guy who shot him can't explain why - even after all these years.

"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past." - Roberson Davies

I've never been able to understand why so many people I know think backwards is a good...

     "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the intelligent that survives.  It is the one most adaptable to change."     -     Charles S. Darwin     Wars have been fought, families have been torn...

     Like education, clean energy, infrastructure, health care, public transportation, human services... all the things that are known to make a country and economy strong and improve quality of life in modern countries...

     I don't use the stuff, but I make no judgements on those who do.  I probably would use it, but it's illegal and gets a hell of lot of pretty good people in pretty deep trouble it seems.     I hear that the vast majority...

     Other people are fascinated by them.  I don't get it.   When I play the thing... it works or it doesn't.
      I suppose that the guitar is a very romantic instrument to people who can't really play them.
     I can...

my son is shy.he is also smart, funny and very cute...but because he is shy, he is sometimes not noticed as much as the loud, abrasive types, who seem to get all the praise and accolades.i am not really shy...more of a "shy extrovert"i...

     "Why is the house so cold Dad?
     "The furnace doesn't work Son."
     "What's wrong with the furnace?
     "It needs a part from the hardware store."
      "Why don't we get the part from the hardware store...

     "Wanting to meet an author because you like his books is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pate'."     -     Margaret Atwood

    "I read somewhere that 77 percent of all the mentally ill live in poverty.  Actually I'm more intrigued by the 23 percent who are actually doing quite well for themselves."     -     Jerry Garcia(am thinking they formed...