Good Day

I had the privilege of taking my oldest on a “date day” today. We started out with a few games of bowling, complete with some tasty bowling alley pizza. We found ourselves at Barnes and Noble at the local mega-consumer-plex-market-mall-thingy, where E read books for about an hour. We perused the outdoor mall area until we found ourselves at Coldstone Creamery for some delicious sorbet. It was a good afternoon/evening with my boy. Life is good.

Thought of the Day

Why is it certain people find sanctuary in "States' Rights" when it comes to assisted suicide, legalization of pot, homosexual marriage, and the like (all of which are perfectly fine and should be left to the states anyway, or better yet, none of the government's business-federal, state, county or otherwise) in asserting their ideas about the way in which they want to live, and yet, when it comes to issues such as abortion, gun laws, affirmative action and, now, health care (again, none of which should be within the governments' purview), any mention of "States' Rights," or the 10th Amendment is automatically and vociferously met with cries of a return to Jim Crow laws and segregation?

Can't we agree that far less government intrusion in every aspect of our lives is a good thing? Can't we just be left to live our lives as we see fit, without governments and religions telling us they know better than we do the rules by which we should be living ?

Thoughts of Days

I haven't posted one word in two years. The reason for this is two-part: 1) I'm rarely near a computer when I have the impetus to write, or a flash of (less than) genius that I wish to share with the vast number of visitors and readers of this, my literary opus; 2) If I do find myself near a computer when such stirrings occur, I immediately envision, knowing myself, several hours of self-editing and self-critique, rather than just letting ideas flow freely, as was always recommended in any writing/composition course I attended, and of course many a writing how-to text.

So, to hell with it. Rather than force myself to write several-paragraph entries, which results in whole months and years between submissions, I shall simply sputter (hopefully) more frequent, and admittedly less introspective, provocative and, dare I say, galvanic (I dare) posts, which I will likely present in a "Thought of the day" format. This is surely my faineant nature manifesting itself, and alas, I don't care.

I continually tell those who will listen how much I love to write, and yet I find myself not writing for the pettiest of reasons. A paragraph or two, a sentence or two a day, just to work out the kinks of a long dormant craft. We shall see.