Horse Manure Park

There has not been a live sporting event on television for a couple of months now and I'm reaching the depths of despair.  The wide world of sports have always been one of my main escapes from the real world and I'm not afraid to confess that I really, really   miss it. So how desperate am I to watch a little friendly competition? Well, yesterday I watched Korean baseball.  For real. Korean baseball.  The game featured the Samsung Lions versus the LG Twins. The game interested me deeply because my Samsung television is connected to an LG soundbar. I mean, what are the chances? (Trust me, I can't make this stuff up).  Members of the LG Twins, whose names I cannot pronounce. As the contest unfolded, the broadcasters (who were quarantined in their own hotel rooms, watching the game on t.v.) remarked that Korean baseball was different from Japanese baseball, which itself was different from American baseball.  To be honest, it looked like baseball to me. And it ...

Not many folks blog anymore. Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter dug the blogger's grave; Snapchat and Instagram buried it. YouTube officiated the services. But the world being what it is right now -- the first pandemic in over a hundred years and the entire country being urged to "Stay At Home," -- this seems like a good time to starting blogging again for a few reasons: My own sanity I like to write I can say anything I want and not have to worry about offending someone or getting into an argument with someone on social media. My first blog entry right here was on October 25, 2007. I didn't have much to say, just a few meandering thoughts... not much has changed in 13 years. Like most bloggers, I fell victim to the ease of other social media platforms. But I've decided to go back to the beginning, so to speak. Every now and then I explore other blogs (usually to find inspiration) and once in awhile I find something really interesting. One...

It seems this is a really good time to start blogging again. Maybe just jotting down my thoughts here as we wade through these unprecedented times, as a way of holding on to my sanity. I don't "promote" this site anymore like I used to; trying to come up with something "interesting" to write several times a week was just too much while trying to balance work and family. I'm not writing for an audience, just for myself. Being here in my own little blog world is far more healthy than going on social media and getting into arguments with people. I can't do that anymore. There is so much misinformation regarding this COVID-19 pandemic; conspiracy theories and an unlimited number of false, misleading claims. And everyone is an expert, especially if they went to the University of Facebook. I keep reminding myself that we are living in a truly historic moment right now; we will look back on this and say "Remember when?" someday. This is tempora...