As we wade through these pandemic times, it’s important that we continue with music. I think music is important. Music feels so important to me that I think, perhaps mistakenly, that it must be important to everyone. I”ve been playing guitar on and off all my life. For the past couple of years I had been playing with Maybank every week. Pre pandemic I even … Continue reading Some Music
Sorry, but this is all I could come up with: Alexander craned his head upwards. ************************* Another attempt at a 5 word story that’s even sillier: Yesterday cranes were stalking me. ************************ Note from the editor: Bumbastories offers no apologies for this photo-prompted nonsense. Continue reading Photo Prompt for Five Word Story
Semi-Annual Bumbastories October Magazine A salute to the number 10, October being the tenth calendar month. Ten Ten. It’s the number of fingers on two hands, and, over time, ten has become the basis of our number system – which only uses nine numerals afer all. Once we get to ten, we start counting again. By tens! And then by tens of tens, and tens … Continue reading Semi-Annual October Magazine
You’ll forgive me for singing another sad song. You can’t blame me. There I was in the beginning of the summer thinking that we were finally going to come out of this covid mess, and maybe finally get back to living normally and doing all those things we said we wanted to do. But no. It wasn’t in the cards. It seems a variant slipped … Continue reading Another Old Song, Another Sorry Lament: St. James Infirmary
I only today heard that Don Everly had passed at age 84. An era has passed. A beautiful voice is gone. I recalled a passage I wrote in my novel One Life or The Lives of Chester Knowles where, for reasons unknown to myself, I talk about my love for the Everlys…. But Marsha sat motionless, looking out the window at the god-awful 405 freeway. … Continue reading The Everlys
Hurray for paleontology! I think that paleontology, the study of ancient animals and plants, is one of the most interesting subjects to study that there is. If you’re a fan of history, well then, paleontology is the thing for you, because paleontology is the history of all of history, all of life. Not just us humans. If you just enjoy a good story, well then, … Continue reading On Paleontology
Welcome to the merry month of May! Spring has arrived. As a troubled iconoclast who thinks about these kind of things, I’m not really sure why it is that people like the Spring so much. But clearly they do. It’s a pretty universal thing, this affection for the spring season. And people especially like the month of May. “And why shouldn’t they?” you ask. May … Continue reading Take Five: The Bumbastories Penta-Centennial May Magazine
Dr Fauci says it ain’t a bad idea to double mask. Yikes! Double masking! It’s been a year already that we’re wearing masks. And what a year it’s been. Yikes again. With the politics. Yikes, what a mess. I mean, insurrections don’t happen every day. We’re still going through that challenge. These are difficult times. And this pandemic is not over. So, in regard to … Continue reading Masks, Double Masks, and Getting Used to It
Bumbastories Magazine and the entire Bumbastories staff want to apologize for last week’s post about feeling happy and normal again. True, the Inaugural was beautiful, almost an epiphany.True that Biden and his staff are primed for the job, capable of leading the country out of its morass. True that there was cause for optimism last week that we were done with Trump, and the pall … Continue reading Admission of Error
18 U.S. Code ยง 2384 – Seditious conspiracy If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, … Continue reading Seditious conspiracy
Every Day Another Story 