First it was the girl cat, 19, who finally succumbed to old age infirmities. The night she fell to the floor and could not get herself to her feet was too great a shock for anyone to endure. They carried her to the all night emergency vet and the husband waited...

She was fat... and she knew it! She was always, it seems, fat and had to deal with it. For years, when she was growing up, she believed that this is what God had dictated for her. As she got older and perhaps a bit wiser, she began to understand things better. Maybe...

When the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW AKA The Wobblies) was established in 1905, their goal was to see ' One Big Union ' formed in the USA. The Wobblies came from the socialist Western Federation of Miners organization led by William D Haywood. Up to that...

Being an anti empire, anti war Socialist this writer has had countless inner dilemmas concerning the Jackass party. As far as their counterparts, the Republicans, well, they are as close to diabolical ( evil?)  as can be.  It seems forever that I have asked myself why...

{It comes from the English ' To gamble' but was always reserved for the horseplayer}. He came from a family of punters, with his mother's father and his own father who couldn't  go too long without placing a bet. As a kid he was baptized into horseracing before he...