The third Monday now from the day when I was fever-felled. I am very slowly regaining my strength after a week of dangerously high fever and no food to speak of to sustain me. Today was my first solo dogwalk with Jayne the giant hairball slobber king Pyrenees. I didn’t go the […]

One of my favorite books in this world of glorious books is Dostoyevski’s “The Brothers Karamazov.” My favorite character is the rebel Ivan, the brother who ably lists the cruelties of his world to lay at the feet of God, and announces that if bowing his head in acceptance of these horrors as “the […]

I have been very ill for the last week, high fevers kept me to my bed.  Slowly recovering, re-gaining strength and all, will and imagination are lagging somewhat.  So, I give you a guest-blog by my son.  He was motivated to this particular little rant by a recent pair of news stories about KBR and […]

No, I do not mean my husband has turned 50, bought a sports car and taken up redheads as a hobby. Nor have I taken to hiring Chippendale Dancers for my own birthday parties, or proclaiming “I’m SO hot!” every five minutes at parties while dressing in things appropriate only to curvy 22 year […]

Just a short one, doing an office re-org here, shifting computers and so forth.  I will be leaving the expensive and over-powered world of MacIntosh for an aged PC.
I really am a kindergardener in the world of computerese, so the new family business Mac that my husband bought is like buying  the never-drives-over-75-mph me a […]

Ok, first a tiny bit of confession—every time the GOP has had a sex scandal I have made sarcastic and caustic comments. Big woof, I am a Democrat. But did I follow each story, scream and yell for which ever idiot de jour it was to be publicly castrated? No, in spite […]

Spring clean up time, the stones are washed and repaired from tippage of moles and frost. Washing them off to the sparkly freshness on a warming spring day made me think about the duck prints between the stones. Is it right that my ducks (who gift me daily now with very good […]

In the news, hardly a day goes by when you can’t find a heartrending tale of abuse and its sad result.  Even when the child/woman/man survives there are terrible tolls to be paid down that dread highway of recovery and reclamation.  Almost nobody really argues with what the headshrinkers tell us about the connections between […]

Spring is upon us in the great Nor’west.  This means it was time to go see what winter had wrought upon the stones of the Labyrinth, as if my frequent walks there had not kept me well apprised of the situation.  But Tuesday, out I went to the memorial that is both the symbol of […]

Trying to get back into some sort of regular writing habit again….let me know how I am doing, lol!
I have been listening to a while now about how “good” the economy is/how bad the economy is and it seems to me that the goodness or badness is relative to your place in the economy. […]