Scranton Time - bits and pieces from Tom Flannery

Home
Archive
About
NewTopDiscussion
The July 4th holiday already felt a little squirrely this year, what with the SCOTUS on the rampage, stripping away more rights than King George ever…
Tom Flannery
3
July 4th is nearly here.....our nation's Independence Day. It's easy for forget that our "Founding Fathers", the famous dudes with the funny wigs that…
Tom Flannery
2
There was a whole lot of crazy to digest yesterday. From thrown dishes to some seriously batshit backseat driving, to the almost casually tossed off…
Tom Flannery
2
Free column today. Please subscribe if you like this sort of thing, because I can’t do this without my subscribers. Three columns a week, on just about…
Tom Flannery
These January 6 hearings are surreal. A cavalcade of Republicans are pulling up a chair and detailing a myriad of felonies committed by the former…
Tom Flannery
2
1
The problem with being a writer is that when you are not writing you feel like a lazy sod. Mostly you are not writing because you can't think of…
Tom Flannery
3
2
Father's Day gets complicated when your Dad is gone. It doesn't matter how long it's been. Things come rushing back as the day progresses. All the…
Tom Flannery
3
2
I can't sleep. It's way-too-early-o'clock and I'm up and listening to old Lyle Lovett records and feeding the dogs and waiting for the promised sun to…
Tom Flannery
2
Every day dueling articles appear in my newsfeed. One declares that remote work is deader than crypto. We simply HAVE to return to the office…
Tom Flannery
1
Two years ago this happened. It seems a lifetime ago. People are still marching for what they should already have 700+ days later. Not much has changed…
Tom Flannery
6
4
It was just a few hours after news of yet another mass shooting, this time in Western Maryland, came out. Three more people dead, this time at a…
Tom Flannery
2
There was a spot on the hill in Dunmore.....a creek set up like an amphitheater......surrounded on all sides by rocks you could jump from. The water was…
Tom Flannery
5
© 2022 Tom Flannery
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Publish on Substack Get the app
Substack is the home for great writing