Author Archives: Guy Oliver

by | January 10, 2012 · 11:46 pm

A Dog’s Life

I’m a mutt.  A Heinz 57.  An American Mongrel.

A Dogs Live www.GuyOliverSpeaks.comI have no pedigree and we cannot trace my family tree back more than three generations.

This reality has always vexed me to my core.  All of my friends know both their ethnic and historical extraction.  Their ancestors’ country of origin.  When they got off the boat.  Where and why they settled.  The only thing I know is that there are three Native American tribes in my family and I know only one of them for certain.  So when a moment of potential family discovery presented itself in my young adulthood, I seized it like a rabid dog.  Continue reading →

1 Comment

Filed under Life or Something Like It

by | December 29, 2011 · 11:47 pm

Man Up Dude

Verbing weirds language.

Words www.GuyOliverSpeaks.comThis brilliant comment from the equally brilliant comic strip Calvin and Hobbes is a reference to the current proverbial bug in my ass, which has to do with the devolution of the language we call English.

I once had a very good friend named Robert who was also my political opponent.  Robert was a very left-wing-leaning intellectual.  I don’t think of myself as intellectual at all, and I’m left-wing averse—but I really liked the conversations we had over multiple glasses of single malt scotch, back when I had money and single malt was still affordable. Continue reading →

Leave a Comment

Filed under Life or Something Like It

by | December 20, 2011 · 11:48 pm

My World and Welcome To It

I am neither a practitioner nor a detractor of religion.

Behind the Curtain www.GuyOliverSpeaks.comPlease don’t ding me because I mentioned God for the second time in as many blog entries.  This entry is not about God or religion, although both figure prominently in this week’s presentation.  Like all of my entries, it’s about life—but guess what?  A significant majority of individuals among the human population believe in something akin to God, so it does tend to surface, especially around the holidays. Continue reading →

Leave a Comment

Filed under Marriage