blog lassiter

In a few hours the new year will begin.  Frankly, I ain’t never been big on celebrating the occasion.  I’ve never attended to a New Year’s Eve parry, or gone out to a club – I’m usually in bed long before the stroke of midnight.
I do tend to look back on the year just ending […]

I turned sixty this year – it wasn’t anything I wanted to do, it was beyond my control.
I find that I have to force myself to admit to it, to acknowledge it.  Of course it really isn’t that old, but it sure sounds like it is.
Do you know how old my grandparents were when I […]

It appears that most of you are “civilians” in the “blogging world” – that is, you just read them, and don’t actually publish your own.   And that’s OK.  Well, actually it isn’t – I think everyone should have a blog, but I’m not here to twist your arm on that one.
I am here to do […]

There’s this batty old woman who lives across the street – her name is Ruth.  For twelve years now, she has provided entertainment, as only a batty old woman can.
It makes no difference what the weather conditions really are, Ruth dresses according to the calendar.  From the 1st of October, through the end of April, […]

It may not look like it, but this “new look” for this humble blog took an entire day to pull off.  At the risk of boring you, I had to look at over 250 templates to find one that I could work with – than I had to rework some of the code to add […]

As 2005 began, it looked like we were finally going to put Florida in our rearview mirror.  Neither of us like the place – never did – we were going to move back to Iowa – Mary’s stomping grounds.  Iowa, where she has a large extended family – where there’s always a baby shower, or […]

There is no need to adjust your browser – things have changed around here.  The more astute among you have no doubt realized that the “blog” has a new look.
Why?  Well, there are two basic reasons.  One would be that I really don’t have much else to occupy my time.  Another is that there were […]

So my good, close, personal friend – Neil Rogers – says that he’s been reading the “blog”, and it’s scared the hell out of him.  He says that he’s going to mend his eating habits, as a result.  Maybe, maybe not – it’s hard, even if you realize what can and will happen.

Trust me on […]

What if – what if I turned on the “comments” feature?  At least for awhile. 
I do fell like a shit for not permitting any of you to respond – and there are any number of reasons for my decision – the main being so that neither of us annoys the other.  There are things […]

During the first season of “Saturday Night Live”, there was a Muppets character called “The Great  Fava”.  “The Great Fava” was supposed to be a god of sorts – a stone monolith with a set of eyes, a huge mouth.  He didn’t really do anything but pontificate.  If the natives wanted words of wisdom, or […]