…i have them all the time: crazy thoughts. I’m not alone. But then again, we all are… I’ve been thinking about this eclipse hysteria. I’ve had a pair of “shower thoughts” about this craziness. Today I’m seeing pictures of people flocking to “viewing spots” in mass. I have no idea what and where the largest…
I admit it. I’m a Hater. I HATE: Authoritarians Bigots Fear Mongers Greedheads Homophobes Hypocrites Litter Bugs Pedophiles Racists Terrorists Thugs I LOVE: The Beatitudes The Constitution Freedom Free Speech The Golden Rule Kindness Liberty Love Tolerance -=-=-=-= Be. Just BE. But don’t be an ASSHOLE.
Sgt. Joe Friday apparently never said it, but this piece will be the Jack Webb version: “Just the facts, ma’am.” {Apparently he did often say: “All we want are the facts, ma’am”and sometimes “All we know are the facts ma’am”} It was the years 2000 and 2001. It was the years of the presidential election…
I’ve got a lot of questions….and I have had for as long as I can remember. I probably always will have more questions than answers. I remember a time when I was probably 5 or 6 years old. The older of two boys who lived next door to my Grandma Ruth was doing chores, including…
A year ago I posted my initial blog entry. I wrote that the elapsed time between starting the introductory piece and posting it was about 11 months. This was on top of a few years of internal dialogue about “putting myself out there.” I was prolific for awhile, posting 10 musings in the month of…
I saw LOTS of live music in the 1980’s in Portland. I was living a work-hard, play-hard lifestyle. I didn’t get much sleep, and when I did it was fitful. I listened to lots of music, and much of that was on TV watching MTV and then either that pioneering station or VH1, but I…
Here’s the background to the following: a few e-mails in a thread preceded the e-mail below, starting with some Facebook status posts by Andy Borowitz pasted into my originating message….sent to my friend to give her some laughs as she recuperates. Primary topic of the thread: terrorism….foreign and domestic, her health, my health. Auxiliary topics:…