Author: D.C. Butterfield

Beantown ‘n Back!

I have just recently been to Beantown ‘n back! Beantown – Boston – 650,000 beantowners! Actually, three generations of B’fielder males drove down and back via PTV (Personal Transportation Vehicle). That turnpike/freeway is really nice to travel on, but can leave you “turnpike tardy”, particularly with a lot of...

Life On The Shoulders!

Life On The Shoulders! Did you ever feel like, “Stop the world … and get it off of my shoulders!” We all do at times! I did when ‘someone’ commented on my use of Big Words. Yet, going back to the June 25, 1816 Royal Gazette I found lychophronism,...

Rogue Row…Folklore and Fancy!

Folklore and Fancy! There’s folklore and fancy, fiction and fact, if you have to stretch the truth be sure to use some tact! In this area the telling of “whoppers” used to be an art in itself. Around the woods bunkhouses, kitchen parlors, quilting bees, and barn-raisings. Real stretches...

What Would I Know!

Sometimes I just have to wonder! Sometimes I feel like I’m racing down a column declivity with no brakes and/or performing column acrobatics with no net! Like, I read where a man is out hunting with his wife, who has a license, and they come across a moose and...

Snippets!

This is/will be an anthology of snippets! Little things – fragments! Like – there are no regular changes in the sky, the heavens, the zodiac, that occur in seven days and correspond to a week! Sardine – there’s no such actual fish. By age 15 the average teen, nowadays,...

Alliteration Allowances!

I, analogously, actually appreciate alliteration. I find it an actual aid. So, allowing allegedly allegorical alliteration is appealing. Like – Pursuing potential philosophy possibilities! Like too – making a modern media modicum of modest materialism. Or – The “graduated” grammarian graciously granted that grand-scale graphic graffiti generally grandiloquently graces...

Don’t Fence Me In!

Different people with different viewpoints see spirituality in different ways. To some, everything has its own ipseity (individual identity) that transfuses to its own orenda (inherent spiritual force), sometimes sincere and sometimes as insincere as ormolu! Reminds me where I read about “secular culture redefining morality”. It always has!!!...

My Mum

When I was wearing baby clothes My Mum would smile and wipe my nose But if I tried to suck my thumb She’d come by and scite my bum, And later when I went to school She made me use the Golden Rule Learn to know what’s right or...

No Notable Nuggets!

There are/will be times when one is simply faced with a shortage along the lines of “facetious nonce words” or “face-saving nonsense words”! Such was the situation when she of the lardaceous rear, which shape reminded me of lautenclavicymbals and/or something right off of the Pribilof Islands, suggested shrilly...

Blood On The Brand

They slink down the runway All eyelashes and lips Strutting their stuff As they swivel their hips, Sleek silhouettes In stiletto style heels Who – can’t fathom hunger And – the way that it feels, High-fashion models Selling designer clothes Enticing the masses To buy them in droves, ‘Haute...