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The paragon of Southern culture and the crown jewel of Hershberger Road.

Krispy Kreme.

Roanoke, Virginia.

I can see!!! I can see!!!

I was at first taken aback by my need to seek (sigh) bifocals.  But that feeling was mitigated entirely by the return of … the world!!  It is rendered in such exquisite detail — even things that are far away!!  (I had no idea that I needed glasses so badly.)

Roanoke’s sweeping wooded vistas are once again completely novel to me.  It’s beauty times two for a transplanted New Yorker.  🙂



(Be a hell of a crossover, though.)

Went looking for info on “A Bridge Too Far;” I somehow arrived at info for “Bridgerton,” and those are two very different viewing experiences.



(Though some might argue it’s the space between my ears …)

Hey, it’s as good as anything else.


Stand in the place where you live. (Now face north.)

Check out these awesome Christmas presents I received from some totally cool Roanoke friends — bookstands for displaying some of the publications that have featured my poems.  🙂

Also among the Yuletide goodies were an Irish coin and a piece of Connemara marble — ideal for setting up beside my copy of The Galway Review 12.



Why can’t we be Franz?

Gonna make myself a superhero, gonna call myself “The Gray Ghost.”

That’s “Grey” for the BritBuds.

Nobody tell me if the name is already taken.  If it is, I don’t want to know.

I know that “Gentleman Ghost” is an obscure DC Comics supervillain, and he can keep his schtick because, seriously, look at that guy.

And then there was Dark Horse Comics’ “Ghost” from my college years; she at least had a great sense of style.

But “The Gray Ghost” is mine.  I declare it.

UPDATE –I did not know at the time that I wrote this that it was the moniker of a Confederate General!  I will have to come up with another name.



You know you’re a sci-fi/horror fan if the term “Winter Storm Blair” immediately makes you think of this person.

Two snowfalls within a week?

This feels like a normal winter.

And normalcy, my friends, was not on my 2025 bingo card.



I’m confused about how this will lower grocery prices.