The quote which lends its name to this blog is from William Shakespeare. Later, Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology featured a character who compared his life to a chicken: "Save that a man has an angel's brain, / And sees the ax from the first!

I realize and accept my plight--feel the swish of a swatter and the swing of a fortcoming ax. I will not go without speaking my "piece." Or should I say "peace."

This blog is my attempt to make sense of it all.