woody's world

When I was a kid we used to look for shiny black globs of tar bubbling up from the pavement, or find a crew who were patching or surfa...

Love it. Used it before. Sometimes, my mother pokes her head out and reminds me just whose son I am. Here she goes again: sick and t...

Yesterday, Sal and I were sitting in our kitchen looking out the picture windows into the back yard. Suddenly, a very large dark bird sw...

Listen to the whining, wheedling and sanctimonious pronouncements by the religious establishments about the sanctity of marriage and yo...

And then he stepped on the mouse. Sorry, said the elephant, but I just can't abide mice. Since the “Report” or dissection of the Repu...

  I ran into a friend I hadn’t seen for several years yesterday. He is a medicine man in a Florida tribe and I trust him. I told him my ...

Around 3 or 4 o’clock in the morning of the second night in the “earth house” in rural New Mexico I felt someone watching me. I opened ...

The Supreme Court in Roe v Wade established that a 23 week old fetus would not be viable outside the womb and therefore any fetus 23 w...

Just as Likely as Any Other As an NDEer (Near Death Experience) myself, I feel somewhat qualified to comment on the buzz around Alexan...

Diane Rehm is confused, and so am I. Maybe for different reasons, but confused none the less. For decades workers, wage earners that is,...