Larry's Life
Food inflation has emerged as a significant "kitchen table" issue in the current presidential election, with each side attributing blame to the other while claiming to have a solution.
In early 2022, I was diagnosed with throat cancer. Faced with the decision between radiation and chemotherapy, or a laryngectomy.
We all look back at the good old days. Trying to relive them in our minds. Playing in the street, baseball in the vacant lot, riding your bicycle everywhere.
Saturday morning cartoons, hanging out at the corner store. Didn't worry about getting kidnapped, no "stranger danger", no sir.
No, there’s nothing wrong with me. Yes, I had cancer. Yes, I had my neck cut open and my voice box taken out. Yes, I have a hole in my neck to breathe through. Yes, I can no longer speak naturally. Yes, I can barely smell anything since I don’t breathe through my nose.
But no, there’s nothing wrong with me.
With the recent passing of Raquel Welch, a lot has been mentioned about her first major screen role. I remember this as being one of my favorite science fiction movies.
While some will say that race relations in America are at a low point, looking back through history reminds us how bad they used to be.
We are living in a time like I have never seen in all my 65 years here on this rock. There has and always will be conflict and disagreement. We humans don’t all think and feel alike. But in the past few years disagreement has turned into hatred. In this post I want to discuss why the hate is all around us.