Absinthe was banned from import into the US until recently, the excuse being that the wormwood was toxic. Even though it was used as the main ingredient in many stomach ailment drugs. The unique ingredient, wormwood ,mixed with the alcohol was thought by many artists to release an almost hallucinatory experience. Writers who partook of the Green Fairy […]
Read MoreTonight, homage is paid to a philosopher that lived so close (his daily comic strip) that he hid in plain site, as the old saying goes. Shultz delved into a myriad of life’s quandaries in his simple vignettes. They say you don’t know something until you can explain it. Charles must have known quite a bit […]
Read MoreStudying Seagulls Father and his son measure the lake’s slopping shore.The boy suffering two steps to the man’s one,shot-gunning questions to his father’s plaid shirt.“Why do birds fly? Stones skip, Daddy? Fish jump?Waves mess up the shore with driftwood […]
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