Oddball
Thoughts

Here’s What I Don’t Want To Be

When you get to be my age you have plenty of time to Think about what you might have wanted to be in your Life. A doctor, a lawyer, an engineer, an architect… Of course, the List could go on and on. Or, if you’re like me you might have wanted to be a circus acrobat...

Bad Habits

I can’t change my bad habits. There, I said it. I’m 75 years old and I’ve finally realized that my bad habits are what make me …me. And, I don’t really think my bad habits are so bad. What’s the big deal if I bite your nails? I’m sure dinosaurs did it. Or, at least...

Anything Can Be

“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, The impossibles, the won’t. Listen to the never haves, Then listen to me…. Anything can happen child. Anything can be.” /Shel Silverstein For the first 20 years of my live I didn’t think I...

Round Things

I like round things. Not squares, not hexagons, not even parallelograms.  I never Liked geometry or trigonometry … just round things. If it had to do it with a Straight line, it just wasn’t my thing. Well… unless the line Led me to a round thing. I dunno. Maybe it all...

Too Much, Too Little, Too Expensive

I think you could call this my Andy Rooney rant. For those of you Who don’t remember him, Andy was the curmudgeon opinion Commentator on CBS 60 Minutes from 1969-2011. “Rooney typically offered satire on a trivial everyday issues, such as the cost of groceries,...