Here's My Thought

(It’s been awhile…I have finally gotten single vision back!) The Kid cut a piece of the pork chop, laid the knife down and switched the fork to his right hand.                   “For a guy who…in the old days, of course…was well known for his strong left punch, I am actually right-handed in everything else,” he said. …

        When I was the ripe old age of sixteen, I was the unwilling recipient of a BB in the eye.  Yes, the first thing that will come to your mind is the warning of Ralphie’s mom, or even funnier, that of the department store Santa, both of whom are from A Christmas Story.   Well,…

“You know, they called me ‘Kid Dynamite’ in my boxing days,” he said, laughing, as he set his beer on the table following a good swig to wash down a bite of pizza.           ‘Kid’ is ninety-three now, but still speaks with the youthful tenacity he had as a twenty-year old semi-pro in the late 1940s…

   (A little delayed on this one, have had some double vision issues, all will be fine!) TO BE VERY PRECISE, it was the same day as the one that. . .well, you know.  At the same time that the news broke about the riots at the Capitol in Washington DC, a lady died in a…

So, one year ago, someone threw me a curveball that I was not expecting in my world of slow pitches that come right down the heart of the plate.  In January of 2023, I was diagnosed with something called CLL.  Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.  Yes, you read that correctly.  Cancer.  As you can well imagine, this…