John began working at McDonald’s as a "fry boy" and Big Mac'ed his way up the corporate ladder until the day he died. In the latter years of his employment he used to come in early and get his small senior-priced coffee for 58 cents instead of the usual dollar and wonder why things had…

Todd McGee posted on Facebook last night that sometimes you come to the site for enjoyment and then other times you find out something unimaginable has happened. I think that's what happened to most of us yesterday when our good friend Jason Giecek who we fondly know as Tink posted about…

This past May Milwaukee resident Marion Warbleton had a mild stroke and her ten-minute bus ride turned into hours because she couldn't remember where she was. Not one single person noticed and it wasn't until a replacement bus driver boarded the bus that someone finally got help for Warbleton.

"After I got on the bus, I couldn't remember what happened after…

Two days ago I had what is called a mini Ischemic stroke which occurs as a result of an obstruction within a blood vessel supplying blood to the brain. Sitting at the kitchen island I knew something was wrong as I had hard time typing with my right hand and I couldn't say my name without slurring it. Instead of being concerned I was more frustrated not being able to type and took an ibuprofen. I am far from being…

The day was crisp and cool at the county fair the day John died. He had a lifelong weakness for younger women, golf and Ferris wheels. He was the only one sitting in the still damp seat on the broken down ride and some of his legal vultures stood below, seemingly awaiting his final demise. It could be today. It could be tomorrow. But it would come.…

Last year I wrote a blog about my forever friend Sheila Wallet Needham and there isn't a week that goes by that I don't remember the happy times we had. This morning I woke up and found out by email that her father Murray Wallet had passed away Saturday night at the Magog Palliative care unit in Quebec. I haven't seen Murray in decades but the tears flowed fast and furious remembering…

Dear Andy Griffith,

I will be whistling this song all day because when everything else was going wrong in the world Andy Taylor and the citizens of Mayberry made me smile. I am not going to go into your life achievements which are many, but instead I am going to leave a page full of moments that made the rest of the world love you. Personally, I wasn't much of a Matlock fan but my father never missed an…

Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees has died after a long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery, according to a statement on his official website. Robin was 62.

"The family have asked that their privacy is respected at…

A little piece of my heart broke this morning as I just heard that Donna Summer has died at the age of 63. I saw her once back in the disco days in Ottawa and fell in love with her beauty and talent. So enamored of her I used a lot of her music in the first Disco fashion show ever done in the Ottawa/ Hull area at Saks Disco Bar in the 70's.…

 

It's still dark out as I slowly wake up and hear the rain pound down on the skylight. I slip my legs into a fetal position and pull the blankets up around my chin. Listening to the rain reminds me of sitting in my grandmother's orange wooden rocking chair decades ago. Protected in the…

It must be February because Open Salon’s Luminous Muse and his Musette are back in the Bay area for their…

The hour after my sister died I found myself asleep in a hospital chair dreaming of a wall sized art painting that featured ugly trolls holding crow marionettes.  It was an awful painting and I had no idea why I was there. Right below the painting two lines of words were written on the wall:…

Dearly departed little Dell,

It is with great sadness that I am typing on a new computer and you, my cherished friend are now filed away in some box. Getting rid of you was heartbreaking but the time had come for you to go.  I want you to know that you had me at hello nine…

                                              True Bully Stories from my Life

                                                                        Billy Richard

Billy was known as the…

Yesterday I watched the move called "The Help", which was from the book of the same name written by Kathyrn Stockett. The movie/book centers around a young writer Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan who dares to defy social convention in Jackson, Mississippi by writing a story about the African American…

I see an old yellowed hand written note from October 1915 crudely pasted in a photo book. It is a British armed forces permission slip for my grandfather Frederick J Knight to go see his young girlfriend Mary Louise Deller in Devon, England for the weekend.  During the hours he will travel by bus to court her, she will be working at a sea side cafe. The ocean breeze will gently blow…

                         Please play one of Steve Job's favourite songs as you  scroll down

 "You were a round peg in a square hole - thank goodness for…