Multicolored and whimsical clown cars twirl about, zigging and zagging pounding the walls inside my skull; piped in between my ears, circus music swirls around, skimming across the fast becoming smoother ridges of the glob of goo that once was my gray matter. My addled brain only gets addleder the more I observe the farce […]
I guess there’s a certain moment in every American’s life when he or she knows he or she is getting older. There comes a point in time when all the pretending in the world won’t keep you hip, or cool, or of the younger-generation. It has nothing to do with gray hair. Little to do […]
I guess there’s a certain moment in every American’s life when he or she knows he or she is getting older. There comes a point in time when all the pretending in the world won’t keep you hip, or cool, or of the younger-generation. It has nothing to do with gray hair. Little to do […]
‘I am embarrassed,? the woman on the other end of my office phone told me . . . and then she told me her concerns. Hmm? Well damn. * * * I will be the first to admit when the school bells commence to ring, announcing the start of a new school year, I feel […]
Not too long ago I wrote of the schizophrenic feline that prowls the dark and dreary dwelling, commonly known as Casa de Rush. That cat is Thomas and I don’t think he’s right in the head. I’ve written on the carnage of his youth. How, as a relatively young kitty, one night, as darkness fell, […]
I wanted to get this out as early as possible . . . it’s not really written in the “Don’t Rush Me Don” style you all know and love . . . it’s actually a story that will come out in next week’s paper. But, I think you’ll all enjoy it regardless of the style […]
Hey, it’s Labor Day weekend and I wanna? take a break . . . so here is an oldie but a goodie from 2004. Read, smile and I hope, enjoy. — DPR * * * Sept. 1, 2004 — Last week I got some great news. News that had me whistling happy tunes, snapping my […]
Don’t know what it is about this time of the year, but every year ? oh, for the last 15 years or so, the end of August, through the rest of fall, I pick to sew later, seeds. I like collecting and drying peas and beans and tomato seeds for next year’s garden. I like […]
You know how it is sometimes. You have time to think and your mind will take you on a wonderful odyssey — ones full of excitement, danger and sometimes even love (which is fraught with so much peril that it is the Number One subject of nearly all books ever published!) Since the end of […]
Days of glory? If I harken back to those thrilling days of yesteryear to when I was as a young man of 14 to 18 years old, it seems to me this week of this month always brought me a fair amount of consternation. The end of the summer vacation was eminent. The nights longer; […]