I am a very lucky person.  I mean, truly lucky.  Like, one-in-a-million chance, blessed, Lightning-coming-down-from-on-high type of lucky.  I have my problems, I have my off-days and my crushing self-doubts.  But, I get to be myself on my own terms and get paid to do something that I love...every day.

And it gets even better. I get to do this ( Read more... )

Happy 2009!

So, Neil Gaiman responded to a Twitter I sent him. 
Should I feel as happy and excited as I do...about something so small?

Fortune Cookies are like every other form of soothsaying or cosmic advice out there: They are both right and wrong 50% of the time, like the proverbial Broken Clock which is right twice a day.

But sometimes you get nuggets which are just a joy to behold--more inspiration than divination.
One, simply states:
"You're at the critical point. Make that ( Read more... )

Someone asked me earlier this year about my religious beliefs...and I was stumped.  I guess I am somewhere between an Agnostic or Atheist--I believe in the unity of everything being all a part a Whole...but I choose not to believe in a God or Heaven or Hell.  Natural Order is about as close to a deity as I claim.  I don't know what the proper term ( Read more... )

They say there are not two, but three sides to every story: Yours, Mine and The Truth ( Read more... )

I had forgotten how much I missed Trick-or Treaters ( Read more... )

Can I be officially angry and disgusted with McCain now?

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I, for one, don't go for celebrity endorsements or condemnations...but this is just freaking funny.
The bit at the end is the best....just the best!


And in case you wonder, I totally agree with him!

We all know Liars and Lying.  We all know falsehoods and misdeeds. 
But how often do we call them out?
How often do we confront them and tell them to their faces that they are false?

That is what it is to "Give the lie to" someone.

Sometimes we have to do so to the world.
Sometimes we have to do so to ourselves.

The Lie
by Sir Walter Ralegh

Go, ( Read more... )

William Shakespeare, Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is ( Read more... )