Diwali: The Hindu Festival of Lights, is usually around the first of November. That corresponds with temperatures in the Southwest desert breaking from intolerable to perfect. I like perfect. Diwali or Deepavali if you have a dot on your forehead, is a celebration not only of light over darkness but good over evil and knowledge…

I’m sorry but I have to interject here. Possibly one the dumbest phrases perpetrating the English language these days are the above words, which I will not repeat. Not only are those words stupid and redundant but they’re stupid and redundant. That particular phrase is for people getting paid by the word who don’t care…

A lot of friends have asked me over the years where I got the name for my blog. A long, long time ago in a neighborhood far, far away…. I grew up in western North Carolina. The Fifties, Sixties, and Seventies were a glorious time in the Southeast. Winters were cold and there was occasionally…

“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” Winnie the Pooh