Our First Tree

My wife still gets choked up when we talk about our first tree. In fact sometimes she can still manage a tear or two. I am of the belief that it is the finest tree that I have ever had.
When my wife and I first married, we didn’t have a lot of money. I had [...]

A Pin-Up Christmas

When I was young my father kept a stack of Playboys tucked away. I think one of the first pics that I ever saw from one of them was Bettie Page winking under the Christmas tree.  I was simply amazed.
With all the porn available on the net, it seems that more and more graphic images [...]

Sorrow

This time of year finds so many depressed and sad. Perhaps happiness can’t be forced. Three years ago, a good friend of mine killed himself a week before Christmas. We had worked the night shift together for three years and I moved into an 8 to 5 job in the front office. He was still [...]

Sometimes

I don’t know why I am doing this. I have plenty of places to vent. But sometimes there comes a time to go to a place that is different. Somewhere where one does not feel shackled to the past ( even if that past is recent. ) I do not know if I will post [...]