River Vices

Conniving City Councilman Kevin W. Johnson It is reported in the Portsmouth Daily Times that Portsmouth City Manager Derek All...

The controversy connected with Confederate statues and memorials recently erupted in violence at Charlottesville, Virginia, where a wo...

The crush he had on Lili as a kid he kept secretly to himself. He kept her photo hid up on his closet shelf, ...

      I recently perused A Book About Words , published in England in 1865. The curious latter-day Calvinistic thesis of the book is...

I’m here to tell you, of this have no doubt, smoking becomes what your life is about: smoking in bed, before sex or...

                The back of a Google Pixel Each morning, in foul weather or fair, I still walk down to the river to make doubly sur...

Who in their right mind wants to bring a child into this world in which not only tropical fish but coral reefs a...

"An uncorroborated report circulated by U.S. intelligence alleges Russian security agents watched Trump engaging in perverted sex...

What is Portsmouth's shitty manager,  surrounded by trash,  smiling about? Portsmouth’s Shitty Manager, Derek Allen,  is in th...

The double-edge of old age is that you forget so damn fast. You no sooner turn the page than you forget what y...

          Still Life with Apple and Avocado by Dan Haraga I had my first avocado in Las Vegas  around 1953 when I was hitchhiking  ...

She was so unlovable the birds would stop singing when she was near, parrots be at a loss for words, and blue skies would tu...

                                   selfie           Thinking a lot about suicide gives his life meaning and structure separates th...

The form precipitation took— a pitiful, will-o’-the-wisp mist— would have disappointed even a dyed-in-the-wool optimist. So a ...

                          Billy Sunday Preaching Like Clark Kent in a telephone booth, Billy’s favorite colors were red, white an...

"Mr. Met's Obscene Gesture Makes  Crazy Season Even Crazier."                                                            N...

        Last night I watched a 1944 Hollywood movie I’m from Arkansas . It is what was called a “B movie,” meaning it was low-budget,...

Melania Trump's colorful, $51,500 jacket        As is generally known the acronym PTSD stands for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder...

The 1810 House           There is  an op-ed piece by David Leonhardt in  The New York Times dated May 25, 2017, titled “The Assa...

            Exhibition of Mark Rothko's Black Paintings                      at the National Gallery of Art A poem can’t ...