Ron BaronOct 14, 20215 minThe Coming Thanksgiving Dinner RumbleWhat should be a pleasant harmonious family time, Thanksgiving day gatherings often turns into a rhetorical and gastrological rumble....
Ron BaronJul 24, 20214 minFeral Hogs Next Poster Child of Climate AlarmistHaving broken free from bondage, these critters are tearing up the world and contributing to our destruction according to the climate...
Ron BaronJul 4, 20217 minHearing Aids, Drones, and UNSOZIALThe year is 2039. Facebook and Twitter have been taken over by the UN to preserve global peace and rebranded as UNSOZIAL. The acronym...
Ron BaronJun 19, 202110 minThe Future- If You DareRemote control toilets and doorbells with facial recognition. Be afraid. “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past...
Ron BaronMay 21, 20215 minModern Church LadiesThe Judgmentalist are everywhere. Back in 1986, some lowly Saturday Night Live costume courtier was asked to procure a laughably modest...
Ron BaronMay 15, 20217 minThe Year is 2039: Naked as a Hairy ChimpThe following is a serialized novel set in the year 2039. Wayne, the protagonist, is comfortably warehoused in a state owned late-stage...
Ron BaronMay 2, 20217 minThe year is 2039: Sepia Lives to Bark AgainPart Two of a Dystopian Novel Set in 2039 In Part One, we met Wayne Decker, a very old man kept comfortable at a state retirement...
Ron BaronApr 24, 202110 minThe Year is 2039- Where's the Beef?In my last email, I hinted at sharing a novel I'm writing. It's not uncommon today to 'serialize' one's writing and offer it over...
Ron BaronApr 11, 20214 minMemories From a Red Ford Station WagonMy life started as a snot-nosed kid with curly blond hair riding unbelted in the back seat of my parent's red 1955 Ford station wagon. ...
Ron BaronFeb 15, 20211 minBoomers Taken to the Wood ShedMy notion that the generation of my grandparents, the 'greatest generation' somehow rubbed off making the 'boomer generation' nearly as...
Ron BaronJan 30, 20215 minIn Search of EssentialHave you ever attempted to list all the essential things in your life? All the things that would be difficult to live without? Perhaps,...
Ron BaronJan 21, 20214 minThings Learned Standing on a DotIt is difficult to fathom that we’ve been asked to keep one fathom (1 fathom = 6 feet or 1.8 meters) apart for nearly a year already. It...
Ron BaronDec 11, 20207 minFestus and the Green HandOld western movies never show an old western medical clinic. No long hallway with small rooms across from each other and a waiting room...
Ron BaronNov 20, 20205 minWill Masks go Down as a Debunked 'Wives Tale?'Just a refresher; sitting too close to the TV will not make you go blind, pulling out a grey hair will not create two new grey hairs,...
Ron BaronNov 14, 20207 minFreddie Goes to Therapy; the Bloody SnoutFreddie was glum. His owner thought he was depressed and did a quick smartphone search for a doggie shrink. Yes! They exist. He tapped...
Ron BaronNov 5, 20205 minThe Power of Crying Uncle…and things my uncles taught me. To young boys, uncles tower over you like an old-growth doug fir. And if they were a farmer of which I...
Ron BaronOct 27, 20204 minThe Slow Slide Into Familia DysphoriaThere is a much-used metaphor of a frog in a pot of water that is slowly being warmed on a burner. So imperceptible the water warming...
Ron BaronOct 20, 20206 minThe Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894With the pandemic, and the election, and calls to take a knee or hold up a fist in racial contrition, I hesitate to add to anyone’s...
Ron BaronOct 18, 20202 minThere Are No Ordinary PeopleWith all the fanfare a humble post can muster, I announce the birth of our very first 'podcast.' I named her 'There Are No Ordinary...
Ron BaronSep 17, 20206 minI Have the Attention Span of a...…goldfish! Ring the alarm! People who study these things are writing research papers telling of our declining attention span- oh… look...