Suprise Me

The right to vote is not about politicians or policy or propositions. It is about exercising a right, embracing a responsibility. My mother has felt this way as long as I've known her. I don't think she has ever missed voting in an election. Read More

  Retrospect: The Boomer Intervention By Kevin J. W. Driscoll (c) 2025 Preface: In the quaint town of Nostalgia Falls, where rotary phones still mysteriously worked and ‘kids these days’ were a constant source of bewilderment, a rebellion was brewing. Three fed-up offspring, fueled by caffeine and a desperate need for peace and quiet, hatched… Read More

Turn it on, wind it up, blow it out, GTO. Yeah, that was me. Read More

It’s about something I see somewhere at least once a day. Read More

There are three elections in my lifetime that still haunt me, and probably always will. 1968, 2000, and 2016. Read More

“Tell me what you read, and I can tell you what you are.” A man said, “I read Spinoza, Shakespeare, Plato and Kant.” Read More

I was not at all nervous; my fear of flying, like so many of them, developed later. Read More

My sympathy for women and gays began with my birth. My mother, Rose, was disappointed that she birthed a male child—as documented by my birth certificate. My first photograph showed me as a three-year-old child in the driveway dressed in a skirt.. Rose used terms of endearment that had a feminine flavor. Etymologically, the “ie”… Read More

How my effort at "early present discovery" backfired. Read More

A hippie, a priest and Henry Kissinger were in an airplane...... Read More