For the last week or so I’ve been trying to work on a somewhat serious posting, but after writing that initial surge of words, it has gone nowhere. It just sits in my drafts box and taunts me.  So, for the sake of putting something up on these ol’...

In my writing group, we give ourselves a writing assignment at the end of each meeting so that even if we haven’t been working on anything else, at least we’ll have our “homework” to share with the group.  Last week’s homework assignment was: Think...

This is the way it usually goes: Step 1: stray or abandoned animal shows up on my doorstep or is dumped in my office. Step 2: I say “No, I do not want/need another pet.” Step 3: “OK, well, I’ll take care of it until I can figure out another...

I live in Richmond, California. Yes, that Richmond. The Richmond that often finds itself in the news as a gang-infested hell-hole. It’s not all that unusual to read about a spate of four or five shootings over the course of a night or two. Hell, a...

No need for faux spiderwebs for Halloween at Chez LazyBuddhist.  No, at this time of year, my yard becomes Spidertown. two spiders do battle outside my kitchen window I’ve lived in this neighborhood for about 12 years now so I’ve become used to the...