LETTERS

Letters to the editor and various organizations.

Rita Cormulley aka Ash, passed away in my arms, Friday, April 12th 2019

I maintain this site as a memorial to my love of 25 years.

She wrote many letters with pen and paper. When we met in 1994 Ash was not interested in computers.

I finally convinced her to start writing in a word processor and eventually post her writings online.

Free Pass on Bad Behavior

Here’s Mike again, piping up between ash’s two letters to defend an editorial called “Bad Behavior on the Sidelines” he wrote using a dismissive...

Compromised Referees

ash sent this to the blogger Eric Alterman as an “and furthermore” to his running commentary on the professional opinion conveyors who are never as...

I Love Understatement

It’s ash’s favorite category of humor, the flip side of exaggeration. As the comedian Jerry Seinfeld noted in his routine: If you find your shirt...

In His Own Words

ash still marvels that this speech occurred before Bush’s reelection to the presidency, which may or may not have been legitimate. In either case, it...

Secular Commandments

Here’s a smorgaasbord of family stories ash collected then interwove them as anecdotes to a theme.

If organized religion is a subset...

Amusing

This one is classic ash. Appropriate the other guy’s expression and make it really mean something.

Examine Jones’ moves more closely

Hooray!...