Reflections Of A Gasbag

July 4 2022. Independence Day. A divided nation, inflation, a shortage of critical goods, rampant crime, dangerous drugs and individuals flowing across an open U.S.-Mexico border, and a world on edge while America’s foes grow more emboldened — things aren’t great.Things haven’t been great in America before. There was December 7 1941, November 23, 1963, […]

Sporty Dan was a character in our Senior Play in high school. A disc jockey spinning the all the hits. “That bright good morning voice who was heard but never seen, feeling all of fourth five going on fifteen.” I played Sporty Dan in the play. My thirty seconds was a show stealer. It led […]

I’ll be honest I’m going through a faith question. The shootings of the schoolchildren in Uvalde Texas last week has actually shook me and my thoughts about things. Those things being my faith. My Christian faith to be exact. Let me say, I am a gun owner. I have several pistols, shotgun and rifles. I […]

I really enjoy my back porch. Rebecca and I sit out here on most summer nights. We talk about the days activities, play with Arlo the monster, listen to some music but lots of evenings we sit in the dark and just listen. It got me to thinking about summer nights in the south and […]

So it has been awhile since “The Gasbag” posted my brilliance on this site. I’m sure it has been missed by tens of people so to all who haven’t uttered one word about when my next post shall be released, loaded with all that gasbag expertise and meaningful takes on life………folks you haven’t asked for […]

2022 is here and when I look at those four numbers it causes me to freak. We are going to be in the year 2022. It sounds so sci-fi ish especially when I look at the date of my birth. In the Chinese calendar this will be the year of the Tiger. The Tiger is […]

Thanksgiving 2021. It would be so much easier to write a blog on the negative this Thanksgiving especially as I pull out of the QT after filling up and head to Indian Land SC but I will not. Instead I will be thankful that I have a vehicle that can that can burn the gas […]

The alarm went off at five this morning like it has for the last umpteenth years. I got up like I always do, started coffee, turned on the IPad to read about the latest disaster foreign and domestic. That’s when I noticed my middle finger on the left hand one of my bird fingers was […]

911 was twenty years ago. I’m trying to let that sink in. 911 was twenty years ago. We all have our memories of that day. Many examples of exactly where I was and what I was doing. Much like when the Kennedy’s and Martin Luther King were killed, the Challenger, John Lennon and the eerie […]

Rebecca and I are hooked on A Chef’s Life which comes on ETV. It’s a is a half-hour character-driven documentary and cooking series that takes viewers inside the life of Chef Vivian Howard, who, with her husband Ben Knight, left the big city to open a fine dining restaurant in small-town Eastern North Carolina, Kinston […]