Spiritual Smart Aleck

“There comes a time in the course of human events when no amount of cursing will suffice.” – John Barrymore. Maybe. That quote popped into...

I did promise people that I would keep writing even though the Loop has ceased publication. A couple of people have come up to me and said, ...

Last Tuesday, my dearly beloved dog, Marley, was shuffled off this mortal coil with a couple of hypodermic shots. She was lying in my arms, ...

  S teven Allen, who has kept the Loop going all these years, bless his heart, has announced that this is the last issue of the Loop that he...

  When I began writing this column nineteen years ago, I wished to write about the spiritual side of the spiritual smart aleck; that is, my ...

  When Trump was in the White House, I reached the point of feeling that a rock would cry out at the insanity going on. Some of my columns h...

  The first earwig of summer showed up today. It scampered out from under my blood glucose testing kit and was scurrying across the kitchen ...