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Enemies of the State
April 20, 2013 This has been a sad and frightening week for the United
States. On Monday, April 15, a “terrorist attack” at the Boston Marathon
left 3 people dead and 174 injured, when two bombs detonated near the
finish … Continue reading →
Silly Putty Season – Remembering Jonathan Winters
April 13, 2013 Maybe it’s the unsettled nature of spring this year, but
reading some of the news out of Washington this week makes me think silly
putty season has arrived for the Powers That Be. After one of Mitch … Continue
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Okay. So, What?
April 6, 2013 After talking over my rising blood pressure with the PA who
sees me for most of my routine medical care, we decided to up my blood
pressure medication. Since I am otherwise healthy, it seemed a sensible … Continue
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The Madness at the Center of the World
March 30, 2013 The snow and cold at the beginning of the week turned to
rain and, with only partial sunshine, gradual warmth over the rest of the
week. Perhaps that explains why, over the last two warm and sunny … Continue
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Surprise!
March 23, 2013 After I bought manure for the garden, potting soil for the
May transplants and a little bag of sand for the wildflowers, Mother Nature
stepped out and whispered, “Surprise!”with a week of winter temperatures
and five inches … Continue reading →
A Good Start
March 16, 2013 We’ve had a lovely week here in Springfield – especially the
last two days, which were sunny with temperatures at around seventy on
Thursday and near eighty on Friday. So, true to my word last week, I … Continue
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Next Week
March 9, 2013 Yesterday, we had sunshine and a temperature of fifty-eight,
but the south wind – up around twenty-five mph – made it a chilly
fifty-eight if you were out in it for very long. I wasn’t. That’s a … Continue
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Just Trying to Stay Out of the Corner
March 2, 2013 The tomato and pepper plants in my plant room have blooms on
them. And, after five days of snow, snow flurries, and spits of sleet that
managed to give us around three inches of actual snow and … Continue
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Snow and Consequences
February 23, 2013 Well, we had a winter storm, such as it was here in
Springfield, late Wednesday night into Thursday afternoon. It amounted to
about two inches of snow-sleet mix (light on the snow and heavy on the
sleet) … Continue reading →
Tomatoes, Spring Gardens and Challenges
February 16, 2013 Before I go any further, I’d like to thank the
forty-eight people arrested on Wednesday for their act of civil
disobedience in front of the White House during protests against the
Keystone XL pipeline and wish good … Continue reading →
Don’t Quit Your Day Job
February 9, 2013 The bread and circuses news this week, of course, is the
big snowstorm with blizzard conditions that Mother Nature delivered to the
upper east coast in her ongoing attempt to let us know she is still the … Continue
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The More Things Change
February 2, 2013 We all wonder and worry about what life will be like as
the declining Empire we live in falls to ruin. We all have ideas about
what it will mean for us, individually, for our families and … Continue
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On Tuesday, I Had an Encounter With a Car …
January 26, 2013 … The car won. A man, making a left turn into the lane I
was walking across, grazed me with the fender of his car and knocked me to
the street. Nothing broke, thankfully, but I’ve been … Continue reading →
Walking Away
January 19, 2013 The Empire continues its decline; the global financial and
economic systems the Empire built, the huge healthcare system, the food
production and distribution system and the vast, but sputtering global
system of cheap energy that sustains them … Continue reading →
A Right to Bear Arms
January 12, 2013 Well, not owning any arms, nor being likely to, I will
leave the ongoing “discussions” on the subject of one’s individual right to
keep and bear arms and the government’s right to limit (though not do away
… Continue reading →
Resolutions and Predictions
January 5, 2013 Right off the bat, I’ll tell you that I don’t make
resolutions or predictions. Having arrived at seventy-two a couple of
months ago, most of my resoluting over 2013 will go into sticking around to
see what … Continue reading →
Will They; Won’t They; and Does Anyone Give a Hoot Now, Anyway?
November 29, 2012 Dashing through the snow in a one-horse open sleigh; over
the cliff we go, laughing all the way (ho, ho, ho …) Having survived a
year of fires, droughts, super storms, mass murders and political
campaigns, … Continue reading →
A Head Cold and Some Random Thoughts
December 22, 2012 I have a head cold. I bring this up because it’s been
nearly thirty years since I’ve had one and I’d forgotten how crappy they
make you feel and how hard it is to write a sensible … Continue reading →
For the Twenty Dead Children and Those Who Died With Them
December 15, 2012 Even a writer runs out of words to express her grief and
rage. I am there. So let me just leave you with a few facts and a poem by
W.H. Auden. Number of children in the … Continue reading →
The Mills of the Gods
December 8, 2012 Back in March of this year, the New York Times ran a
lengthy article about President Obama’s version of the war on terrorism
documenting, among other things, his secret “kill list” and his embrace of
a policy … Continue reading →
Getting Ready for Winter
December 1, 2012 The weather here in Springfield is cloudy and warm, today
– too warm for the first day of December. Tomorrow will be even warmer,
seventy or above, according to the weather forecasters. In the last two
weeks … Continue reading →
This and That
November 24, 2012 As of Friday afternoon, when I began this post, the
fragile cease-fire between Gaza and Israel held, though one Gazan has been
killed and ten wounded by Israeli soldiers. Hamas says the Gazans were
farmers, trying to … Continue reading →
Turning and Turning …
November 17, 2012 Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon
cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold …W. B.
Yeats, The Second Coming Thursday morning, I woke from a dream. In the
dream, a … Continue reading →
A Box Filled With Love
November 10, 2012 Yesterday, I got a care package. I walked out onto the
side porch to get the mail and there it was – wrapped in a cut down
cardboard box with enough clear packaging tape wrapped around it … Continue
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The So-called Wise Apes
November 3, 2012 A couple of years ago, I read a study indicating that, for
those diagnosed with heart disease, diabetes and other major chronic
illnesses, it took an average of three hospitalizations for complications
from the disease before patients … Continue reading →
Brave New World
October
27, 2012
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A state panel gave a key approval Wednesday to start a tar sands mine in
Utah’s wild Book Cliffs in eastern Utah. After hearing from the company
behind the project, Alberta-based U.S. Oil Sands, as well … Continue
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A Hard Winter is Coming
October 20, 2012 Fall has fell, as they say around here. The remains
of the summer garden disappeared into the compost bin, although the early
fall lettuce, spinach and onions on the side porch live on. The … Continue
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An Edge-of-the-Dime’s Worth of Difference
October 13, 2012 For the last several months, especially after the
Republicans finally settled on their candidate for President, I’ve been
wrestling with what to do about voting in the upcoming November elections.
Here at home, it’s not a problem. … Continue reading →
Virtual Reality
October 6, 2012 One of my nephews came to visit this last Thursday. He was
in town for a three-day conference. I hadn’t seen him since my mom’s
funeral about fifteen year ago – though, as with the rest of … Continue
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The Blog Post Will Be Late Today
I’ll be out this morning, hunting down shingles and the other odds and ends
necessary for re-roofing the little side porch, but I will put the blog
post up this evening.
Life Cycles
September 29, 2012 After the hot, dry summer we had around here, the
cooler fall weather makes me smile all over – even with all the crazy
things going on in the world. We’ve had more rain in the last … Continue
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The Devil You Know
September 22, 2012 Among both abuse councilors and abuse survivors the
phrase, “The devil you know is less frightening than the devil you don’t
know” is often used to explain why an abuse victim – especially an adult –
stays … Continue reading →
Just Stop It!
September 15, 2012 There are times when I look around at what’s going on in
the world and feel certain that aliens have invaded us, sucked out the
brains of much of the world’s religious population and replaced it with … Continue
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Some Thoughts on the Two Conventions From Where I Sat
September 8, 2012 First off, let me make clear that I did not actually
attend either the Democratic or the Republican Conventions. Where I sat to
watch them – like most Americans – was in my over-stuffed chair, in the … Continue
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The Wheels On the Bus
September 1, 2012 The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and
round, round and round. The wheels on the bus go round and round all over
town. We’ve had, at the least, a very interesting week here … Continue
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Save Yourselves
August 25, 2012 This week, in politics here, President Obama has apparently
put pressure on the Eurozone not to boot Greece out before the November
elections, lest the effect on our markets make the prez look bad and hurt
his … Continue reading →
Aug-tober and Other Curious Things
August 18, 2012 For all the complaining I’ve done recently about the heat
and drought here in southwest Missouri where I live, the last two weeks
have been wonderful. We’ve had a series of cold fronts move through,
dropping daily … Continue reading →
A Taste of Autumn
August 11, 2012 Last Saturday evening at seven o’clock, with the
temperature stalled at 106 degrees, a cold front moved in. Within a few
minutes, the temperature had dropped to 70 degrees and a series of small
rainstorms moved across … Continue reading →
A Very Short Short Story
August 4, 2012 All week, I’ve tried to think of something to say that
hasn’t been said, dozens of times before – most of it by better minds than
mine. I’ve come up blank. I have a fair grasp of … Continue reading →
A Talk About Gardening
July 28, 2012 In this week when Mr. Romney, over in London, couldn’t seem
to keep his foot out of his mouth and Mr. Obama, back here, couldn’t seem
to keep the foul taste of the still defunct economy out … Continue reading →
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