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This is a political post. If interested please scroll down…                                                       I keep saying that the Republican party has but two goals: To help the super rich become richer….

This is a political post. If interested please scroll down….                               For several years now I have been repeating: The Republican party has one agenda: to harm the American people. Their only partial exception: The very rich, which the GOP helps…

This is a political post. If interested please scroll down.                                       I keep talking about how dangerous the Republican party has become to the America people and to democracy. Today offered yet another example. A horrific example….

This is the longest post I have done in a while. You might want to schedule a good trim to read it. And make sure wine is close at hand.   Last year I listened to two audible books about time-travel. Each book shared a common theme about people traveling to their own past while…

This is a political post. If interested please scroll down….                                       For several years now I have been repeating: The Republican party has one agenda: to harm the American people. Their only partial exception: The very rich,…

This is a political post. If interested please scroll down….                             For several years now I have been repeating: The Republican party has one agenda: to harm the American people. Their only partial exception: The very rich, which the GOP helps to…

This is a political post. If interested please scroll down….                                                 The other day I did a post about recent horrors being inflicted upon the American people by the Republican party. This…

    Miss Asia came into my life in, I think, 2010. She was part of a four kitten litter. Their mama was Lucy, a stray which got into my fenced yard to have her babies. After she finished nursing I never saw her again. That same year I had already saved two litters, each…

This is a political post. If interested please scroll down….                                               For several years now I have been repeating: The Republican party has one agenda: to harm the American people. Their only partial…

My previous post.   Yesterday proved not as bad as anticipated. The liquid was not tasty but not ghastly. Somebody suggested mixing it with 7-UP. I will do that next time. Oddly, I was never hungry all day. Oddly, I didn’t miss…oh, the horror…not drinking. I began taking the liquid at noon and stopped at…

So, y’all know I have been through a lot this past year, health-wise. Good news: I am in much better shape now than I was a year ago. Until last August I never had health insurance so going to a doctor was something fraught with financial terror. But, since August, I now have Medicare, Plan…

I was just on the phone with a friend. After talking for a while he said: “I hope you don’t mind but I was served a bowl of ice cream 10 minutes ago and I’m watching it melt. Would you mind if we end this call?” Me: “Wait a minute. You’ve had a choice between ice…

I posted some of this previously:   On this day in 1967 the mother of my best friend said to me: “Ross! It’s your 10th birthday! You must be so excited!” I thought a moment before responding. “Well, I’d rather be 40.” She shrieked a little. “No! No! These are best years of your life!…

I removed a plastic drawer which contained glass shades for a 1920s Lightolier chandelier which sold. After removing the shades, the drawer wouldn’t fit back into its storage bin. I can’t figure out the issue.        

Here’s the conversation I have when people tell me that, as a gay man, God doesn’t approve of my “preference” or “lifestyle choice”. I carefully explain that it’s not a choice but a built-in orientation. Just as I was born with green eyes, auburn hair, white skin, and so on. I state: I am as…

The Emporia Gazette did a recent article on the Plumb Mansion, and the work the new owner, Chris Stanley, is doing. Then they wrote this: “She noted that includes repairs to shingles on the roof. They became an issue last spring, when neighbor and restoration buff Ross MacTaggart climbed onto the Plumb mansion roof and…

I have not done a time-travel post in a while. Here is one from the late 1980s.     I moved to New York City in the fall of 1978. I was a pup of twenty-one, with $200 in my wallet, and big dreams of Making It Big as an interior designer. Today, I shudder…