Pure Imagination

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Street Art in Dublin & Beyond

Just got back from Ireland, my first visit, and I had a blast walking around and shooting photos. I like to look for images most folks walk by and never notice. Enjoy! The author in front of Molly Malone (who you rub for luck). Notice the spot(s) most people choose…poor girl.

With all of the world’s attention on the recent pandemic, I thought it would be fun to share an excerpt from my first novel, “Drafted: I’m Not Supposed to be Here.” This is a true story from my Army basic training when I caught “upper respiratory infection” and was sent to the hospital. Perhaps you will find the military’s solution to this highly infectious virus as crazy as I did.

Nurse Sara

As a kid in the 1950s, I lived in the small village of New Carlisle, Ohio. It wasn’t precisely Pleasantville, but darn close. Like a lot of young boys back then, I played little league baseball. My position was catcher, and I did a fair job at it. The ball fields where we played and practiced were just outside the city limits, past the grain elevator, and across the railroad tracks, less than a…

Here’s an excerpt from my novel Drafted about catching a virus in the Army and how they dealt with it…

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Sarah started her day the same as she always did since becoming an Army nurse. Up at the crack of dawn, a quick shower, then after donning her crisp, white nurse’s uniform, she drove her permanently assigned (it’s good to know people in high places) jeep to the base hospital, arriving…

Hooker hours in the glowing night Shocking colors scream for your attention Dollars down for anticipated delight Bare bulbs and peeling wallpaper

Striped legs dangling from below Exposing velvet thighs that call Girls that say no in the day Become night prey from alcohol

Flashcubes blind starry eyes Floating bosoms dance to the beat Bag ladies roll their carts along While pigeons decorate Mr.…

Officials in an attempt to stop the spread of the coronavirus have shutdown many public places like restaurants, clubs, theaters, bowling alleys, beaches and suggested no gatherings of more than ten people and even then you must maintain a distance of six feet apart. Now we have been asked to remain in our homes for a period of two to six weeks.

This is one person’s imaginary, hopefully funny,…

When I was about thirteen and my brother, Bill, six, we shared a room in my parents’ house. To save space in this average-sized room, so we each could have a desk/set of drawers for our stuff, they bought us a bunk bed. In the early ’60s, our simply constructed bunk bed had a wood frame, two mattresses, and a ladder. There were no guard rails, and the top bed sat right over the bottom bed, held…

I know. Non-stop television coverage of the latest plague to destroy mankind has dominated the conversation for the last several weeks and the last thing you need is another rant, but I’m going to write something anyway.

If you are homebound like me, missing your sports, music concerts, going out to restaurants, celebrating Saint Patrick’s day at your favorite pub, tired of Gilligan’s Island…

I went to my UCLA doctor for my annual physical, and the receptionist asked me, is your insurance the same? I said no, my former employer decided to switch from United Healthcare to Aetna. By the way, I just heard Aetna is being bought by CVS, the drugstore.

Receptionist: I wouldn’t know anything about that.

Me: It could be a good thing. Maybe now we’ll get a break on drug costs.

Receptionist: I…

Streaming Services vs. Cable/Satellite TV

The proliferation recently of streaming services reminded me of the birth of cable (I was there 1971) when content owners approached cable companies offering programming packages in exchange for distribution and a share of the revenue stream.

Now with the technology to send HD quality sound and picture through the Internet, the content owners can market directly to the consumers who…