woody's world

Found at last!! My old friend George Kistner . We had some crazy times in high school . He had a late 40s Chevy convertible that we used t...

One of those days when the future looms large for some reason. And it's not a pretty future either. Henry Pollack has just published a b...

He stood before the bathroom mirror. His father's straight razor in hand wondering how he got to this place. The only way out was a quic...

Some of you will remember the old TV series starring Fred MacMurry (who?). Good sitcom with a message at times. I never really thought tha...

First, before you get angry and dump this essay let me say that I think religion is very important to many people. But not to all people. I ...

My mother was born in 1903 in Milwaukee. Her father was a German cooper and her mother was a Gypsy. A real Gypsy. Mother had had 3 sisters, ...

In my distant past I was a "yute", as they say in Brooklyn. In the early 50's there was an arcade game that involved shooting ...

Today I saw her again. See was dressed the same as all the other times I have seen her. Sweat pants, running shoes, some kind of pull-over t...

Years ago there was a columnist that occasionally included a column called "Things I Learned on the Way to Other Things" or someth...

IPA. Now that is a word (is it a word? I=India, P=Pale, A=Ale. Put together it's a word to me, or maybe an acronym?) that causes a deep ...