Sunday, November 26, 2023

The Flu

 Your presence gave me chills on Sunday. 

By Monday my body ached from your grip.

Saturday, November 4, 2023

Nelson Cruz joins the retired fantasy player list




The 2023 baseball season is over and soon the 2024 season will begin.

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

The Lonesome Locust



Have you heard the Lonesome Locust?

He is the last locust of the season still singing.

Stop. Look up at the tree

Do you hear that tune?

The last sounds of the season.


Lucky to still be alive, least that’s what one might think.

He has lost his peers and still plays his tymbal.


Still searching for another but none is there.

Slowly the tune ends and the sounds of silence returns.


The lonesome locust has played possibly his last tune 

and at least one lonesome human was there to hear it.


Monday, September 4, 2023

Fantasy Football says goodbye to Tom Brady





For the first time in two decades, fantasy football players will kick off the new season without Tom Brady as a quarterback option.


For me Brady is the most notable name that will be missing from roster options this year.


Over his career, I used Brady 204 times. He scored me 4,071 fantasy points and averaged 19.95 fantasy points per week. 


He was my 12th ranked player and the most used player. 

Aaron Rodgers is next with 134 selections.


Two of Brady’s former teammates also join the retirement list. 

Sony Michel and Gio Bernard hung up their cleats and will be missing from fantasy rosters.

Michael was on two of my top scoring teams, the 181 and the 179 rosters. Brady was the QB of the 181 roster.


Other notables missing from fantasy rosters because of retirement are A.J. Green, Corey Davis, Josh Lamb, Alfred Morris, Kerryon Johnson,


Thursday, July 27, 2023

Using kindness to seek out wine

 

Our time is limited. We must be kind to all as we could be eliminated from life at any moment.

Today the contract with life is extended another day.


We must make the most of it and be kind in order to break the binds of the mind and find the sign that leads us to wine!

Monday, May 22, 2023

Up in the Air



Listening to the winds of change blowing through the air.

Howl with them if you dare, but be careful you could end part of a pair.

There was a stare and the word care as the breeze blew through one’s hair.


Feelings can be rare and cause you to be bare which leads to wear and tear.


Pay the fare? Or say no fair?

Thursday, March 23, 2023

Missing Deadline: A trip through newspaper office hell with a work place bully

 Chapter 1

After working retail for many years, a chance to return to the world of higher learning, had arrived. No more grocery work, no more baby pictures, no more balancing tills.  My ticket out had arrived at the ripe old age of 30. Or so I thought.

Monday, March 13, 2023

A stay at a Comfort Inn featuring discomfort




DALLAS, TEXAS — A recent stay at a Comfort Inn and Suites left a friend and I wishing we would have packed a vacuum for our overnight stay in Dallas, Texas.

Saturday, February 25, 2023

TTM's arrive from Counsell and Assenmacher




MILWAUKEE, WIS. —  The new year has kicked off with two more TTM autographs arriving.

Monday, January 16, 2023

Will Clark returns TTM; My fantasy baseball lineup bids farewell to Pujols and Molina







SAN FRANCISCO — The final TTM autograph received in 2022 is from former San

Francisco Giants Will Clark, who took 83 days to return my card signed. Clark is signing items for a $20 donation to Autism Speaks.