I found myself thinking about James T. Kirk, the Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise, quite a bit today. I recognize the fact that I can roll his name off my tongue and can still remember his dramatic poses in Star Trek episodes dates me; but, in my defense, I was a mere child and my [...]
Tag: turkeys
Odds and ends…1000 words or less.
The clean slate of the new year has already faded. As I was traveling home from dropping Cheyenne off from school a hundred odds and ends that have skittered to the outside of my life or my consciousness flooded my brain - and then the turkeys crossed Sheyenne Street. The good news is, they ran. They ran [...]
Who is the turkey?
My Aunt Rosie used to always say, "Don't let the turkeys get you down!" By turkeys she meant the dumb people who crossed my path or who impeded my progress. I guess a turkey league somewhere cried foul (or is that fowl?) to such defamation, but the message stuck with me - dumb = turkey, turkey=dumb. [...]
THE NEW FORTY 