My Ship has Sailed
Any of you who have blogged on Open Salon for any length of time probably know BuffyW. It has been my great good fortune to call this fine lady “friend” for the past seven or eight years, long before...
View ArticleThe Terrible Power of Nature
Like the rest of the country, Monday afternoon, I sat glued to the television watching the unfolding tragedy in Moore, Oklahoma. Like everyone else I was dismayed by the destruction and loss of life,...
View ArticleLeave them Smiling When You Go
I have always believed that if you can leave people smiling you will indeed, have a place to come back to. I have tried to reflect that attitude in my blog and most of the time I have succeeded, though...
View ArticleHow to Kill a Couple of Old Coots
If you ever find yourself in the position of needing to kill a couple of sixty-year old people I have stumbled upon the perfect plan to do that and get away with it.My wife’s sister passed away a year...
View ArticleA Productive Month: Project Finished
A little over one month ago I announced, in this space, that I was beginning work on a new project. It was to be a book aimed at pre-teens and teenagers called: Booker, the Barn Dog of Almosta Ranch....
View ArticleThe Power of Music
Music is my companion when I write, so it has been since I first began to put words to paper. Music serves as a vehicle that transports me to new worlds, new realities and it opens my mind and makes me...
View ArticleOS Management: Read this, if you read anything on this site
Okay, let me start this off by just asking a simple question. Who exactly is in charge of this Cluster F*ck we call Open Salon, is it still Jake Sugarman?I’m going to go on the assumption that he is...
View ArticleGiving Credit Where Credit is Due
Yesterday was supposed to be my last entry here on Open Salon but I believe in giving credit where credit is due....thus the title. As some of you know, I kinda when off on management yesterday about...
View ArticleTake a Moment....Pause.
Those small moments bordering between dark and dawn are some of my favorite times of the day. Sometimes I stand out on my porch with a cup of coffee and just soak in ambiance of the Earth.If I am...
View Article"More Information than you asked for."
As some of you might know I am in the process of starting a KickStarter project to fund my new book. Well Amazon.com handles the contributions to the project and I have been trying for four days to...
View ArticleLanguage and Dancing: Two flashbacks
Yesterday, after being deluged on the TV and Internet by the Miley Cyrus stories, I couldn’t stand it any longer and I yelled out to my wife:“Mel, what the hell is ‘Twerk’ and when did it get added to...
View ArticleI have questions
Indeed, these are strange days we are living though and at times it really does seem as though we have all slipped down the rabbit hole into a different reality. Our President come out and declares...
View ArticleMiss Snickers and her Morning Rituals
I have discovered over the years that if you watch animals enough you will find that we share many common traits with our four-legged friends. Nowhere is this more evident than in morning rituals. Just...
View ArticleMcMurtry's Masterpiece and Me
Last week I had the pleasure of watching the complete Lonesome Dove mini-series which was aired on AMC. I remember the first time I read the Larry McMurtry novel. I had read that a mini-series was in...
View ArticleThe Last Christmas
The other day I found an old photograph that I had saved from my previous computer. It was a shot, taken by my wife, of my grown daughter sitting in my lap and giving me a hug.I posted the picture on...
View ArticleI Love a Good Storm
This morning, around eight o’clock, a large thunderstorm struck here on Almosta ranch. Now I know that is not really news for here in the Heartland we are accustomed to many such storms this time of...
View ArticleA Time of Troubles
Four times over the past two days I have started this blog entry only to abandon it halfway through the writing. I have come at the subject in different ways, none suitable for conveying my ideas my...
View ArticleThe Big Bang Theory
To paraphrase Lewis Carroll’s famous work Jabberwocky, “The time has come, “ The walrus said, “To talk of many things: of shoes and ships---of sealing wax---of cabbages and kings…..and Practical...
View ArticleWhat If....Considering the Unthinkable
Yesterday was something of an eye-opener for me. I was forced, for the first time in over twelve years to consider what this world would hold for me without the woman I love standing at my side.It all...
View ArticleTwo Old Dogs
As daylight broke on a frosty Winter morning the old dog lay curled up on the couch, sleeping soundly in the warm, dark living room. His massive head lay upon the soft cushion of the couch as his hind...
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