Piano

Play a musical solo in front of an auditorium of strangers or have to prepare a large dinner for judge mental in-laws?

Salmon, my mom used to make salmon patties during lent and I loved them.

Attempt to play Crazy Train on piano or listen to a piano version of Crazy Train on YouTube?

Without marshmallows, too much sugar.

Riding for a half hour on a stationary bike in a warm place or riding a recumbent for an hour outside in the cold but with nice scenery?

Gas fire.

I love gas fireplaces almost more than wood burning fireplaces and cuddling with a significant other is much more fun in front of a fireplace than in front of an electric heater.

Smoked turkey or a pressure cooked Cornish game hen?

Really depends on my destination, but all other things being equal, a leisurely back road, especially if I am on my motorcycle.

Two cats and a dog or two dogs and a cat?

Europe

North America or South America?

I don’t know if we have had any deep conversations but it would be fun.

Of course I would enjoy an intelligent conversation with her, we have had many.

Large Breed. (I have had a chihuahua and I have had a Great Dane mix. The chihuahua was by far the more difficult dog to handle and very emotionally needy.)

Trying to apologize to a friend or not being stupid in the first place?

Sink

Puppy or mature dog?

When I started college at Ohio State, I was living in an apartment with two of my older brothers. My third year of college, I had to move into the dorms. When I moved, I had more social opportunities with women. So, I would ask a girl out on a Friday or Saturday, to one of the High Street clubs for some beer and dancing.  More often than not, when I was dancing with my date, a snot-nosed...

Added 29 Aug 2020 | Category Musings | Votes 3 | Avg Score 5 | Views 246 | 3 Comments

Welcome, citizen of Earth. It is hoped that you enjoy your sojourn to the stars but there are several important points to Galactic Culture that you must learn before you leave Earth space for more exotic climes.  Now, as you know that for the Earth to join the Galactic Federation, Earth and its people had to make three contributions to the Federation. If the Earth could not make...

Added 24 Aug 2020 | Category Flash Fiction | Votes 2 | Avg Score 5 | Views 208 | 3 Comments

Right now I want to rage as only another redhead can understand. We have only known each other for a few weeks but I think we both felt a connection. I tried to keep myself from becoming too emotionally attached to you too fast but I guess I failed miserably. I woke this morning and I got the message of your passing from your aunt, feeling stunned, and I can feel the...

Added 21 Aug 2020 | Category Musings | Votes 4 | Avg Score 5 | Views 291 | 4 Comments

I discovered the secret to having a Merry Christmas long ago. It was Christmas Eve 1993. I stopped by my brother Gene’s home to drop off the presents I had gotten for my nephews, John and Nic. John was 9 years old and Nic was 7 years old. It was about 7 pm and I was invited to go to Midnight Mass. I enjoyed the time before mass playing with my nephews.  I had just been dumped by my long...

Added 16 Aug 2020 | Category Musings | Votes 5 | Avg Score 5 | Views 205 | 5 Comments

King Crusher lead me to the royal quarters, the royal quarters basically being a hut that is several times larger than any other hut in the village. When I stepped inside of the hut I was surprised to see that it was rather civilized, it was very clean with some of the nicest and largest furniture that I have ever seen. The was a very comfortable couch, a fully stocked bar, and a large...

Added 06 Aug 2020 | Category Fantasy | Votes 2 | Avg Score 5 | Views 284 | 2 Comments

All of my life I have had to deal with a mind crippling depression. The origional time this depression hit me was when I was 11 years old and had started 7th grade. I had just moved from my grade school to a junior high. For the intial first half grading period, I was forgetting homework assignments and even how to do tasks. I suffered. I could get control of my emotions after 3 weeks and...

Added 05 Aug 2020 | Category Memoirs | Votes 8 | Avg Score 5 | Views 301 | 6 Comments

Over twenty years ago I found a spell-book of a white witch. I looked through the spells listed and there were many interesting spells in the text. There were spells to win affection and to keep people from harming themselves and many others. (Every time I tried to cast the augur to receive love, I got interference from a specific individual that ruined the casting. You might think she...

Added 17 Dec 2017 | Category General | Votes 3 | Avg Score 5 | Views 713 | 4 Comments

This story starts at the beginning of my senior year at Kent State. I was majoring in Physics and I was taking some high level courses. At the start of my second to the last semester before I was scheduled to graduate I was taking Electro-magnet Theory I (which I loved), Introduction to Quantum and Atomic Theory (which I also loved) and Physical Thermodynamics (which didn't love me).  I...

Added 27 Sep 2017 | Category Memoirs | Votes 4 | Avg Score 5 | Views 822 | 3 Comments

A couple of years ago I noticed that I was having some troubles walking. It wasn't anything really serious, just that my legs felt a little weak, stiff and I had no stamina. I started having some back problems, nothing really bad, just every now and then the base of my back would feel stiff. Then this late spring when I was seeing my doctor for my yearly check-up I told him how I was...

Added 24 Nov 2016 | Category General | Votes 9 | Avg Score 5 | Views 1,079 | 7 Comments

It was a cold Friday evening in January when Sylvia was walking to her boyfriend Bob's condo. She was thinking about the night they finally hooked-up. Sylvia was a third year English Lit major at Kent State University. She met Bob the first day of the previous fall semester when she arrived for her science class that she needed for her basic education required credit. Bob was teaching the...

Added 22 Jul 2014 | Category Supernatural | Votes 2 | Avg Score 5 | Views 1,126 | 2 Comments