"It could tear a hole in the space-time continuum."  That is the reason I gave for not meeting OS friends recently.  Cheeky but true.  We have to think of the little people, I said.  We have to put them before our own selfish needs.

It may also… Read full post »

When in the course of human events you are gifted a 'free' part-wirehaired-terrier puppy by two women in a truck that roars off down the street as soon as the puppy has cleared the passenger side window...well, when this happens, you don't know what's in store for you.
 
If you are me, you… Read full post »

Anna is a homeless woman who goes to my church.  She has hard-to-tame hair, a reddish, sun-lined face, a stocky build.  I met her because we sat in the same section--all the way over to the side and in the last row.  I did not know for a time that she… Read full post »

This is a quick post on a serious topic.  Instead of doing more commenting on my own, I just wanted to share an email message I got from Senator Roger Wicker (Republican--MS)  or, most probably, the person in his camp who disseminates such messages.  Somehow I got on Wicker's list… Read full post »

Everyone else is doing a list, and if everyone else jumped off a cliff, well, I wouldn't.  But making a list is hardly jumping off a cliff....

Holiday gatherings provide the opportunity to relish quality time with family, friends, or coworkers, but that's only if you really enjoy your family, fr… Read full post »

Today is the first anniversary of my blog on OpenSalon.  I had never blogged anywhere, and I feared that if I did, it would contain little more than my self-involved ramblings.  Hopefully I have occasionally risen above this level.  I don't know.

 I usually don't forward… Read full post »

On Oct. 30, it was confirmed that my 91-year-old grandmother had cancer.  On November 1, we met with an oncologist, who told us he thought she had less than a month.  She was suffering with blood clots that were cutting off circulation to her feet, which were turning black and could… Read full post »

It was not today, but Thursday over a week ago that I woke up in the morning and walked past my grandmother's room.

"Take me to the hospital.  I wanna go now, this way, " she said, asking to go in her robe and slippers.

Granny is normally a hospital avoidance… Read full post »

Charles Gibson on the nightly news just introduced a segment comparing supposedly incompatible terms of justice. Director Roman Polanski is in a Swiss jail "on 30-year-old charges of having sex with a teenaged girl."  Yet on the other hand, there is a known money launderer running a bank an… Read full post »

I cannot even make an intelligent post of all this, but when has that ever stopped me before?

 Several weeks ago after a long car trip to see her lone surviving brother, my grandma had problems with her right leg, which was swollen and red.  She is a thin person, delicate because… Read full post »

"In September, lie all the things you've lost..." So began a poem by Rachel Sams, a girl from my creative writing class senior year.  She was much more talented than I, as you can see. 

That first line is all the more true for me because September is a birthday month… Read full post »

Oh, snark, how I appreciate you.  How I glory in you.  How I fear that you will be used against me.  I have not many gifts, but I do have the gift of snark.  Oftentimes I keep it to myself, but sometimes I unleash it.  And worse, if I… Read full post »

 This is how I feel, mostly not about the whole editor's pick thing, but because Kerry ignores me.  I've sent flowers and cards.  I burned a CD for him of our songs.  I've called him, and a suspicious person answers. "Who is this?"  I ask.

"Who is this?" suspicious per… Read full post »

I was originally going to compose a long post about the emotional rollercoaster that was last night's town hall meeting on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.  Keep in mind that these are people still bitter over their battles with insurance companies post-Katrina, so would they have a more nuanced view… Read full post »

“When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.”  C.S. Lewis quotes (British Scholar and Novelist. 1898-1963)

Sometimes in life we wander through the wood… Read full post »

 The following is from the SOA Watch organization, which is trying to close the School of the Americas (renamed WHINSEC).  Go to http://www.soaw.org for more information on how our government exports torture and blackmail to Latin America, all from Ft. Benning, GA.

House of… Read full post »

The following is from the SOA Watch organization, which is trying to close the School of the Americas (renamed WHINSEC).  Go to http://www.soaw.org for more information on how our government exports torture and blackmail to Latin America, all from Ft. Benning, GA.

House of Representati… Read full post »

On Monday, Jon and Kate held a conference to report that their TLC reality show competitors, the Roloff family of "Little People, Big World," are a scandalous clan.

"Those children are crying for help...and comforters that match the window treatments!" said Kate. 

"The mom on the show---" … Read full post »

I don't know what you're doing this evening, but I am going to a very important meeting at El Torito (not. its. real. name.).

I was invited (by a message in my Spam folder) to go to a meet-up group on the paranormal, 9-11, and alien abductions.  From my back and… Read full post »

"It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And Mama hollered out the back door, 'Y'all remember to… Read full post »

"...When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying 'What are these stones?' then you shall let your children know..." Joshua 4: 21-22

Years ago my uncles went to Mississippi's Vietnam Veterans Memorial and came back with a picture.  Families of the dead soldiers were asked to send… Read full post »