The usual rhetoric in time of war is that our soldiers, sailors, marines, and pilots are dying for freedom. And the “war on terror” says the same; they promise we are safer for those distant dyings, yet I had to take off my wedding band and earrings last time I flew on an airplane, […]

Ok, you want my vote and you want my money?  Mr. Edwards, you have been getting money that I should spend on any number of other things: better groceries, veternarian care for an animal, repairs and renovations (for health reasons) to my house, and more.  I have been torn on how to cover all these […]

The war protest in Washington D.C. this past weekend seemed little remarked upon in the news that I have seen since.  I wonder if they kept it all hidden successfully from George?   After all, we have been, for seven years, inundated in media commentary about how “insulated” he is from the life that so many […]

Once upon a time,  I fell partially into a story by T.H. White.  As Arthur says in the musical “Camelot”…made from White’s story, about first seeing the sword in the stone that would shape the entirety of his life, “It was a war memorial…”
Of course, I am no “once and future king”— only a minion […]

….I cannot separate my spiritual life from the rest of my life? Is that a true statement?
I had a thoughtful spell today as I lay stretched out on my back waiting for the pain there to abate.  This was triggered by running across a blog name that evoked memories of a newsletter I edited for […]

All week, a state of jitters, atop pain and weariness, dogged my heels. I am dense, I think….by now I should know that is a sure sign of “something” or “someone” trying to get thru my thick skull. Finally, my catch-up reading and research got through and it struck me that an attack on Iran […]

Back from some family duty in Sonora, Mexico and it is good to be back.  It is taking me some time to get all caught up with various threads of my day to day life.  And then, getting caught up with online life….oy!
On the bright side, my relative, who has been living in Sonora for […]