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Born in '54 near the pastoral town of Hitchcock in southern Indiana, in earshot of the celebrated Monon railroad. Admiring my ever-drunk, bar-fighting WWII veteran uncle, I grew up as a fist fightin', hard drinkin', drag racin' hell-raiser. By good fortune, I came upon the teachings of Śri Chaitanya, learning the err of my ways, culminating to an astonishing visit to the land of Vraja in India. Today, I am now a reclusive, ahimsa-practicin', nature-lovin', bird feedin' retired widower, barely living only off of Social Security near the sylvan town of Furnessville in northwest Indiana, within earshot of the historic South Shore Line railway. My final goal now is to try to outlive and take care of the stray cat and her three offspring that my beloved late wife and I worked hard to rescue back in '19. They are the very last of the many dogs and cats that we rescued over the years. Many mistakes and lessons learned; a few regrets, but even more memories.

Comics I Follow

Pearls Before Swine

Pearls Before Swine

By Stephan Pastis
Ripley's Believe It or Not

Ripley's Believe It or Not

By Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
Non Sequitur

Non Sequitur

By Wiley Miller
Pluggers

Pluggers

By Rick McKee
Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin and Hobbes

By Bill Watterson
Monty

Monty

By Jim Meddick
Ziggy

Ziggy

By Tom Wilson & Tom II
Peanuts

Peanuts

By Charles Schulz
Peanuts Begins

Peanuts Begins

By Charles Schulz
Drabble

Drabble

By Kevin Fagan
The Dinette Set

The Dinette Set

By Julie Larson

Recent Comments

  1. about 21 hours ago on Peanuts Begins

    People at home wish they were out having an adventure. People out having an adventure wish they were back home.

  2. 5 days ago on Ziggy

    “My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said ‘Okay, you’re ugly too!’” — Rodney Dangerfield

  3. 7 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

    Quasimodo, the quarterback of Notre Dame, predicted all of this. Or was it the baseball player, Yogi Bear? Or was it Baba Ganoush? I can’t remember. Never mind.

  4. 10 days ago on Non Sequitur

    “Elect a clown, expect a circus” is a recent American aphorism.

  5. 15 days ago on Ziggy

    In the fantasy book, “Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, the crew of that ship learn of the nearby “island where dreams come true”. They are eager to go there, until someone points out that it’s not where daydreams come true… it’s where dreams come true. They aggressively avoid that island.

  6. 23 days ago on Peanuts

    “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Or the one.” — Vulcan Proverb

  7. 28 days ago on Peanuts

    “Depression is a disease. Would you tell someone with cancer to ‘just stop thinking about it’?” A more apt analogy would be telling someone with cancer to “Suck it up, get out of bed and stop having cancer!”

  8. 28 days ago on Drabble

    On June 1st, 2018, I was stopped at a stop sign, sitting on my motorcycle, when a big Dodge Ram 3500 pickup truck turned the corner short and ran right into me. I rode motorcycles for almost 40 years, but never again after that. Too many drivers staring at their phones instead of driving. That motorcycle was my sixth motorcycle, only one month old.

  9. about 2 months ago on Pearls Before Swine
    “I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. I don’t like ’em myself. They are pretty bad. I grieve over them during long winter evenings.” — Humphrey Bogart as Phillip Marlowe (private eye), in “The Big Sleep” (1946)
  10. about 2 months ago on Non Sequitur

    The only truly carefree time that I had as a child was the summer of ‘64. I was 10 years old, and I stayed with my uncle in the beachside town of Beverly Shores, Indiana. My uncle was either drunk or sleeping, so I had the whole summer with no adult supervision whatsoever. Sometimes he would disappear for days at a time. It’s a good thing he kept cereal in his house.