It's been a long time since I've been here. In all honesty, life has been busy at best, crushingly so at worst. And I've found myself in this wordless place--probably because I've found myself in a place that has had life and circumstances swirling so madly around me that there has been no space to think a thought, let alone craft a sentence worthy ( Read more... )

I look at the things that people say, and I think ( Read more... )

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I try, very, very hard, not to indulge too often or too deeply in schadenfreude. I've had that turned on me far too often to feel any kind of good about turning it on other people, no matter how deserving. And so while every so often, someone's disaster gives me a moment's squee, more often than not, it's the other way around ( Read more... )

Didja ever have one of those mornings where the bed is just perfect?

I mean, the room is the perfect kind of quiet, and just exactly the right temperature, and the moonlight coming through the window is just perfectly bright, not too much or leaving the room pitch black? And the pillows are arranged just right? And nothing itches, or pulls, or ( Read more... )

I don't know how many of you read the junk_food_sc RSS feed, but if you don't, and you care about things like how the medical community and the mainstream media lies to you on a regular basis in order to frighten you, you should. It's an interesting and excellent blog, and can make you feel a little better about all those people who would condemn you to the ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here, drinking my coffee creamed with leftover egg nog and noshing on the soda bread my brother made for us for Christmas, consuming the last of the winter holiday festivities. I've scanned my friend's list, and reading everything that you all have had to say about the exit of the old year and the advent of the new, and I am sincerely ( Read more... )

There's a lot of hubbub going on regarding the choice of Pastor Rick Warren as the person who will lead the invocation at the Inauguration ceremonies in January. And I can understand that--when that was announced, my heart fairly sank, for all that might imply regarding Obama's reputation as someone who is not an ideologue when it comes to how he's ( Read more... )

Back in the Paleothic age, when I was a kid, a very popular bumper sticker/button/embroidered-on-your-jeans-jacket doo dad, usually illustrated with some homespun, rustically crafted logo or psychedelic tie-dyed swirlage so beloved of us peaceniks, asked the deep question:


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