under the microscope

  Al Premo Where to begin? Spending a good number of evenings at the Iron Horse Grill since they opened here on Main Street, I'm happy/s...

    The day was relatively unproductive yesterday: skipped breakfast, had coffee and a cigar on the porch and spent too much time on Faceboo...

  I'm a writer.  I'm a writer because I write.  The question is, why do I write?   For approval, that's why I write.  Seeking ap...

                                                                                           2011 Adirondak 90 miler The impermanence of life ...

  On the patio, former screen room, at 0245. 62 degrees w/ 12 mph winds out of the NE, (a gentle breeze, as defined by Google.) Had 6 hrs. 4...

  It's Friday, December 1st, 2023 and I'm at my laptop writing about my woes as they relate to my sleep habits.  At this exact momen...

  It's noonish, yesterday, I'm feeling disposed to take a nap.  I've been up since 2 AM and, among other things, have spent 4 ho...

  I don't write here much anymore.  Actually, I don't write much anywhere unless you count Facebook posts.  Which are usually merely...

I've been on the receiving end of this new cultural happening called "butt-dialing" a few times.  It's usually from a work...

I was a hot sultry Friday evening in early July, and I was sauntering the block and a half down Main Street to the Iron Horse Grill for supp...

  What a treat greeting me from my patio this early morning; As I looked up to scan the sky and it's stars, I saw a line of "lights...

Around ten years ago or so, while at the doctor's for an annual physical it was discovered that my blood pressure was dangerously ...

Good morning. The weather still sucks and I'm feeling slightly unwell, as in a half bubble off level; though more physical than mental....

  OK, story time. Leaving my house this morning to walk to the post office, I see a lady on my neighbor's lawn looking at their house an...

 M y mom, Millie LaRock, was a superb cook. She always put much thought and effort into putting tasty and appealing meals on our table. Grow...

  Our journey begins in a small hamlet, former village recently dissolved, on a bay along the edges of the mighty St. Lawrence River.  Curre...

  Whether I've ever been a hero to someone is really a story to be told by others not me.  Some would say that being a hospital corpsman...