Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

While stuck in traffic the other day, I noticed a blind beggar on the other side of the road playing Christmas carols on his rickety instrument.  Most of the people passing by would pause for a while, dig deep in their pockets for some loose change and drop it in the beggar-slash-musician’s tin can.  I [...]

Good night Lola, see you in the morning…

Lola died yesterday.
But I did not mourn for her death.
I thought that she deserved to die;
She deserved to die to rest her weary soul from the cares of this world.
It was now her time.
And now the spotlight’s on her.  She’s the star of this bleak moment, thrust upon the very stage just right in time [...]