That Was Then, This is Then
Lately my dreams have mostly been revolving about my past. Sitting in the backyard of my childhood, as an adult, with family.
Conversations with my mother about mundane things like, “Have you called your sister?”
“I will, Mom, I promise.”
Banal banter until I realize that she’s, in fact, dead; and we shouldn’t be having this conversation in [...]
I’d Write More But My ‘Thritis Is Actin’ Up
I could start this with, “Oh my back. My aching back!”
Or how about, “That damned sciatica is throbbing. Must be rain on the way.”
No matter what it is, it’s not descriptive enough of those moments when you feel, “I’ve hit an oil patch and I’m just skidding towards the grave.” (Edwina Monsoon - Absolutely Fabulous). [...]
Idle Hands
If I had a car my bumper sticker would read, “Put off today what you can do next week.”
I admit it, freely. I am the most procrastinating person on the planet. I hate having to do “stuff”.
The bland stuff, oh sure. How many times can one watch the Star Wars trilogy?
A full day, I’ve had [...]
Eebadee, Eebadee, That’s All Folks!
It’s a pandemic. Isn’t it?
The word is being flung around like a shuttlecock in a badminton typhoon.
All the major (and even minor) news channels are predicting the black plague for the new millennium.
Will we be dying in the streets, blood pouring from every orifice, screaming out for mercy?
So it’s a mish/mash of human, pig and [...]
I Shizzled My Fassizle
Well it’s been a while. I’m still having to post via the back door and it’s still slightly confusing me.
When I get used to learning something then learning something new is hard for this lack of grey matter.
HOMER: “Whenever I learn something new it pushes the old stuff out my brain. Remember when I took [...]
Honeymoon’s Over Folks!
We all knew it was coming, didn’t we? I mean the love affair had to end sooner or later, I just didn’t think it would be this soon.
Already, Republicans are calling the new King a socialist.
Ummm, well, are they surprised? And why is “Socialist” a four letter word?
MSNBC titled an article “Obama’s new strategy: [...]
Kristy McNicol, Where Are You?
Our place in our family. What is it?
You are the youngest of two. The middle of three. The eldest of nine. Or, like me, the youngest of seven. It’s all the same, isn’t it?
There is always history that defines you.
Your place in that shared history…that REALLY defines you.
Siblings can be amazing. They really can.
Those who [...]
Proposition Hate
I’ve been pretty silent up until now about what went on in California partly because I’ve been shaking my head and wondering just what the hell happened.
Didn’t bigoted lines get crossed just a day before? Didn’t progressive thinking finally trump backward thought?
I guess not.
Part of my absence in the pool of confessionals was, [...]
She Was, She Is, She Always Will Be
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