blog lassiter

Did you ever notice how no matter the other guy’s troubles, you always seem to be able to come up with some kind of a solution – and it’s almost always a simple solution.  And did you ever notice how the other guy  always seems to know how you should live your life – how […]

You know, every now and then I just run out of things to say…so maybe it’s time to turn it over to you – just for a little while…

Along with the “old folks shuffle”, I am also afflicted with a worsening case of “things were better when I was young”.
Of course, they really were better – no matter how you want to measure it.  The more youthful people reading this fine blog no doubt disagree – thinking that either I am sadly mistaken […]

I can’t think of anything good to say about this getting old crap –it is just one indignity after another as your body gives out, just stops working.
I could go on and on, listing all of the things that bother me – things that no longer permit me to live what I would consider a […]

I think everyone has memories of some seemingly unimportant moment from the past – something that just stuck with you, even though at the time it meant little or nothing.
My poor mind is cluttered with a ton of them, but there is one that stands out.  It goes back – I’m sorry to tell you […]

You know, maybe there’s something to be said for having poor vision – I can’t see my face in a mirror very well – it’s just kind of a blur, unless I put my nose right up against the glass – something I rarely do.
Yesterday I foolishly did just that.  It’s so disheartening to see […]

I don’t come from the best of gene pools – my mother died at 61 ½ years of age, my father died one day shy of his 64th birthday.  I have only a piss poor chance of outliving my mom, it would be a frickin’ miracle should I outlive my dad.
Even with most of my […]

So like one of my dear and valued readers – Decker – was questioning in his blog if I “still had it”.  Fortunately, a recent post where I ripped some poor schmoe a new one satisfied him that indeed The Mad Dog could still dish it out.
But that got me to thinking – why wouldn’t […]

I noticed this morning that according to the countdown colander in the right-hand column that I have a birthday coming up – number 61 in 70 days from now.  Who knows, I just might make it.
A number of years ago, I spent my father-in-law’s 88th birth day with him and the rest of the family.  […]

I am an only child.  Well actually, I am a classic, textbook only child.  I am perfectly content to be by myself – often in silence.  I require very little if any “outside stimulation”, because I provide my own – I learned how to at any early age, because I had no other choice.
As an […]