I am solar powered and outside is very foggy with intermittent heavy downpours, so my grand ambitions for today have been scaled back. At least it's light gray out there now rather than dark gray, but that's about as much as you can say for it ( Read more... )

D is not what one would call... aware... of current events, but after the election it became a personal mission to make sure that he was as aware as I could make him. So many things have happened today, though, there was no way I could come close to summing up what had happened just with what was in my head, so I wrote up a summary sheet. For ( Read more... )

It's early Saturday morning and I'm feeling pleasantly level headed, which is still a novelty after the lion share of the last ~6+ months. I would take back the overwhelming anxiety if it would spare the world the current political situation, but that's not an option and so I shall at least be grateful I'm of a mind to do something about it rather ( Read more... )

When making a post after a long absence - for varying degrees of long - I always have the urge to start it like a confession: Forgive me, father, for I have sinned. It has been [x time] since my last confession. I'm not even Catholic, although I did marry one (whom I've never known to actually go to confession), so it's an interesting social ( Read more... )