Happy Path
Blake developed a new status--'The Happy Path'. If your program worked for good data, it was assigned to the Happy Path.
Sunday Morning Coming Down
When I said, "Hi, how you doing?" this attractive brunette with a flip hairdo looked at me as if I'd spoken a foreign language. She…
4 and 20 Years to Go
I always liked Stephen Stills song, "4 and 20 Years Ago." Now I have, maybe, 4 and 20 years before I go.
The Lonely Sentinel at Old Dorsey Church
“Leave the GPS in the SUV,” I say to my grandson. We stroll down the old road, abandoned two score years. Since the floods of…
This Pen for Hire
It's a good living, even during this Great Recession. It will remain so as long as politicians want to appear as benefactors when they're actually…
Salamander Stew
"What do you have to declare upon your entrance to the galaxy's most advanced civilization?"
Time Travel
It started innocently enough. Not pleasantly, but innocently. I was engaged to be wedded on the first day of the new millennium.
