KingMidget's Ramblings

Random Thoughts and Writings — Politics, Food, Fiction, Essays, Maybe Even a Haiku every now and then.

Category Archives: Thoughts

Blogging

There was a time when I tried to blog and didn’t get very far.  To me, one of the biggest reasons to blog is to engage people in discussions.  My earlier blogging efforts were met with silence from the cyber world.  While there aren’t a lot of comments around King Midget’s world, I have a [...]

Mother’s Day Thoughts

This is one of those days when I feel like a curmudgeon, completely out of step with the rest of America.  Happy Mother’s Day to every mother I know!!!  Um, no, actually. Mother’s Day as it has come to be experienced in this country is a crock.  It’s a made up day, just as so [...]

100 Things About Me

  I was born in Moses Lake, Washington. My father was in the Air Force.  My mother was a stay at home mom.  I was the youngest of four with a brother as the oldest and two sisters between the two of us.  But enough about them, this is about me. My family moved to [...]

Companionship, Intimacy, and the Modern World

On my own, for a long time I’ve thought about intimacy and needs and wants.  I want to be touched, not just physically, but emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually.  I want to experience my life, my friends, my loves, my interests, my fears … everything … at the deepest level possible.  I want to revel in [...]

Men are Tools; Women are from Venus

First the back story.  Months ago, a co-worker told me about the food at a mid-town dive called The Round Corner.  Tucked away in a tiny space, The Downtown Kitchen cranks out two types of food … grill for the meat-eaters and vegetarian for the, well, the vegetarians.  My co-worker recommended the burger and the [...]