Category Archives: family

Big Frank’s Gone North

RIP Frank Arthur Smith II (1921-2010) A Son’s Best Friend

Will GW Ever Go Away

“You can pick your nose, you can pick your friends, but you can not pick your friend’s nose.” Anon “Unless he has been snorting coke.” maybe said by GW Bush 1983 during his contribution to the Contra drug trade.

We The People

Those three simple words opened the preamble the US Constitution. “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this […]

Joni Mitchell Drag

I was born in 1952. Doctors during that prehistoric period had no way of predicting an infant’s sex, yet my mother was so convinced that her second child would be a girl that a year’s worth of pretty pink baby clothing lay neatly stacked in a crib. I imagine she experienced a more than a […]

The Eternal Struggle

“Women are always right and they are never more right then when they are wrong and you try to convince of this.” – Pascha Ray Yesterday I visited my friend Richard Sw in Brighton Beach. His Ukrainian wife had given birth to a baby girl. I brought her a gift. She couldn’t have been more […]