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The Value of a Promise

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  The Value of a Promise        Uxbridge, Massachusetts is, pretty much, the only world I have known. I’ve lived my entire life here, worked here, raised my family here, and I plan to live out my days here.  It has given me a fantastic life for which I am forever grateful.        But, it is not perfect.  And when issues arise that have the potential to harm it and its people, points of discussion need to be raised.     So please bear with me      On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Bill into law.  According to the US Government's website, ssa.org , “ The Social Security Act established two types of provisions for old-age security: (1) Federal aid to the States to enable them to provide cash pensions to their needy aged, and (2) a system of Federal old-age benefits for retired workers. The first measure was design...
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This Is My Truth

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  Three years ago, I wrote a blog listing the many things that I was grateful for. It was an exercise in self-awareness that was good for my mind, heart, and blood-pressure. The other day I had a bit of an epiphany, and decided to do something similar, but using a different track.  There seem to be fewer truths in our world. This AI, fake news, social media driven universe we inhabit has created more questions than answers. So many “facts” that I filled my personal reality bubble with made me a happy, comfortable, and apparently naive person. Slowly this reality came crashing down like a shower of meteor strikes, breaking my secure force field and leaving an apocalyptic burning landscape across the horizon as far as the eye can see.          Hyperbolic? One-hundred percent, much like many present day headlines. But…I did firmly believe that Bill Cosby was a great man I should model myself after, Lance Armstrong was a legitimate, legendary champion, and...
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Meet My Friend, Wallace

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  Meet My Friend, Wallace      As far back as I can remember, I have loved comics of all kinds.    My parents introduced me to comic books (Justice League, Avengers) when I got my tonsils out at age 5, and thus making superheroes my first love, but, I eventually found myself checking the Worcester Telegram and Gazette after my dad finished so I could read Snoopy, Garfield, B.C, and Wizard of Id.  As I got older and my sense of humor matured, I couldn’t get enough of The Far Side or Doonesbury.  But, the gold standard will always and forevermore be (drum roll please) the Sam Watterson classic, Calvin and Hobbes.      Calvin and Hobbes is the apex.  It is what comic strips were meant to be, in my opinion, because it was so relatable for both children and parents.  His take on the over-the-top dark side of a loveable little boy and the stuffed animal/imaginary friend that acted as his conscience, was geniu...
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