Author: BuddhaManAndy

  So this weekend was my first weekend get-away with Madeline. We went to New Orleans stayed at a hotel in the French quarter and did all the things tourists do in the Big Easy (which incidentally is named for two things. The overall easy going nature of life in New Orleans and the big, … Continue reading Voo Doo Princess

So why, suddenly, a blog post you ask? I don’t know, precisely. I mean, I have had this nagging feeling for a while now but I could have sworn it was the bout of plantar fasciitis that pretty much knocked the wheels off my wagon back in May but the truth is it was that … Continue reading Hate, Fear and Other Games Adults Play

A strange thing, regret Never what I should have done What I didn't do

Actually, as far as blog posts go, my time on the Disabled List has been a helluva lot longer than 15 days. My time on the 15-day Disabled List however comes down to my heel. I’ll explain. Today at a meeting, one of the guys observed that if you are coasting, you are going downhill. … Continue reading 15 Day D.L.

Today I read a fellow bloggers post about how writing is not as important to her as many other things. She detailed how several trying events had unfolded in her life recently and that had rendered her unable to write until she really got a handle on them. She also pointed out how a loved … Continue reading Creativity: The River Changes Course

After a brief but horribly offensive text exchange this morning, I realized something. My friends and family are up there with the most offensive, horribly politically incorrect people I know. It started with this iccocuous exchange. No harm, no foul right? So, to check and see if I had the means to transport the chair, … Continue reading Please Be Offended

I “accidentally” smacked the back of His hand with my water bottle as I crossed the room. He was sitting on the overstuffed chair close to the TV I had purchased a few weeks back. The Roku screensaver was bounding around the screen and He had been dozing in the chair, a beer bottle spilled … Continue reading Him (Let’s Do This Thing)

Tom, a member of several of the Facebook groups I’m in, is an outstanding poet. He posts a poem every single day on his blog quarryhouse.wordpress.com and frequently, his poems concern his battle against clinical depression. Tom is also a minister in a small Vermont town and he is far and away the most open-minded … Continue reading A Necessary Hell

I will never understand why women my age have this campy nostalgia for the Reagan years. The 90s gave us Nirvana and grunge, a burgeoning economy, Bill Clinton and a relatively peaceful world order. The 80’s, on the other hand, gave us the Challenger explosion, Ronald Reagan and the first installment of the vanishing of … Continue reading Big-boned? Not so much.

“We are all afraid of getting old. We don’t want to think about it. Yet deep down in the recesses of our minds we know it’s true. When we suppress these fearful thoughts they continue to fester there in the dark. We are driven to consume (food, alcohol, movies, etc.) in our attempt to forget … Continue reading HVAC, binge watching and turning 40