Randy | October 13, 2012
This poem has been marinating for a while. It came to be from observing the self inflicted misery of several people – two in particular – and is presented here by special request from Mrs. LFM. I can deny her nothing. Suffice it to say that we’ve all met people who bring ugliness into the […]
Randy | October 2, 2012
Laura’s Pie By LFM The deadly Water Hemlock Grows upon the rocky shore Of a backwoods lake not far away From Widow Woodrow’s door. Her given name is Laura But her maiden’s lost in time. And if any knows what age she is, He’s silent as a mime. The oldest crone from round about With […]
Randy | October 1, 2012
October again, and the harvest is in, by every definition of the word. Welcome to another season of Dark Sentiments! If you’ve never experienced it before, “Dark Sentiments” is an annual series that appears here every October, each day of that month presenting observations and tales of people, things, doings, and goings on that come […]
Randy | September 22, 2012
Getting the most out of life demands an adventurous spirit, decisiveness of action, willingness to experiment, and the ability to recognize the line that marks the place where only stupid lives. This applies to every area of human endeavour, finding its most profound expression in the realms of food, drink, and sex. I’ve said before, […]
Randy | September 13, 2012
Surfing one of the bushcraft forums I frequent, I came upon a thread titled, “Half cock not working”. Even sight unseen I consider that sad on a number of levels. Mrs. LFM’s reaction was, “I guess that’s a slight improvement on full cock not working….?” Well, my Esteemed Friend Laurie Lacey learned of all this […]
Randy | May 22, 2012
Mrs. LFM was dancing to Starships by Nicki Minaj while preparing donair eggrolls for lunch in our kitchen this afternoon. It’s warm and raining today, and in those rare moments when I could tear my eyes away from her to glance out the kitchen window, I could actually see the plant life getting taller before […]
Randy | March 25, 2012
Last night Mrs. LFM and I were watching Billy Joel night on American Idol, meaning that each contestant had to choose and perform a song from the Billy Joel play list. We’re both fans of the man himself, and I was delighted to hear a performance of one of my all time favourites – his […]
Randy | March 24, 2012
Let’s go back to that simpler time in the last century, when the internet was in its infancy, e-mail and ICQ were the go to cutting edge communications methods, cellular phones were simply that – phones, and a computer was just a computer. Moving forward from that time, the line has blurred so that hand […]
Randy | March 20, 2012
A seeming lifetime ago, it took me a few years to scrape off a bad marriage like shit from my shoe. Particularly during the last two of those horrendous years, when it was dead in everything but name, the state of things were kept a closely guarded secret for logistical reasons that have no bearing […]
Randy | February 12, 2012
A snowflake forms thousands of feet above the ground and makes its way, riding the many risings and fallings and seemingly random swirling pathways of the wind, to land exactly where it was meant to. In the practice of Zen archery, it is understood that as long as the archer does what is required in […]