by Clifford James | Nov 19, 2023
I used to like to snow ski. It was always a good time. Now I am torn. The mind is willing but the body is not. I learned to ski while I was in high school in upstate NY. When I went to college in Connecticut, my roommate and I and a few other friends would take trips...
by Clifford James | Nov 18, 2023
“If you wrote down every single thought you ever had you would get an award for the shortest story ever.” Hm….. When I first read this, as a writer, I was offended. While I did complete an entire novel of almost 100,000 words resulting from my vivid imagination and a...
by Clifford James | Nov 16, 2023
My college roommate and I were kidnapped one night. It was a rite of passage into the fraternity. On this particular night, we were grabbed from our dorm room, blindfolded and loaded into a vehicle. No words were spoken and we did not know our captors. We drove for...
by Clifford James | Nov 14, 2023
If you’ve ever traveled anywhere in a tour bus, it can be fun, depending of course on who you are traveling with and where you’re headed. I’ve experienced tour busses as both passenger and driver. It’s a “what goes on behind the...
by Clifford James | Nov 12, 2023
I’m not saying I hate you, what I’m saying is that you are literally the Monday of my life.” I call that “transference”. I am transferring my dislike for you to Monday’s, lest you be offended. So let’s talk about Mondays. After a relaxing or...
by Clifford James | Nov 11, 2023
“The older I get the less surprised I think I’d be if a random body part just fell off one day.” Aging is difficult. But what’s the alternative? I think back to when I was a teenager. I thought 40 was old and I could not imagine how things...
