...that is warm and loving and sweetly uplifting; because I need that so very much. I'm so tired of the healthcare debate and the financial conundrum and the miserable, emotionally sodden trainwreck of gloom 'n doom. On so many levels I attract such positive energy and so many fine, mega talented… Read full post »

I recently requested that my bank take Verizon Wireless off an auto debit plan.  I’m not too happy with Verizon, because my cell phone died again.  I paid $200 for this phone and I already had to replace it once, for the same reason.  It wouldn’t charge.  The replaceme… Read full post »

Today I walked into Chase Bank in Boulder, Colorado and stood in line, intending to cash a check.  It was written by one of their own patrons who has a business account with Chase Bank; but when I got to the teller I was told I could not cash the check… Read full post »

There is an aisle in the middle of Congress…

We recently lost Teddy Kennedy, one of the liberal lefts' most powerful and consistent champions, and amongst the many warmly evocative eulogies, someone (I think it was Zuma) posted the text of Teddy’s famous speech given at the 1980… Read full post »

The health care debate rages on, and the conservative right never ceases to amaze me with their idiotic and bigoted statements about a social issue that was solved decades ago by poorer, ‘less advanced,’ less developed, supposedly less progressive countries who enjoy national universal he… Read full post »

...with special bonus track by Hot Rize.

It didn't end with Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers. 

Here's an interesting little diversion from the status quo.  List fifteen books you've read that had an impact on you and will always stick with you.  List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.  In my case, the titles came pouring out, and more and more… Read full post »

Some presume

because I am nomadic

that I’ve always been.

Some think I am a congenital vagabond

and therefore suspect;

a bohemian;

incapable of relationship.

Some don’t know what bohemian really is.

They use the word like… Read full post »

Newport, Rhode Island.

Early March, 2004

                          It had a nice ring to it

    … Read full post »

I would like to expand upon the ongoing discussion involving sexual abuse and inequality.  There is a lot of healing going on here, and ultimately that is what needs to happen.  Little is accomplished with nasty remarks or a conscious will to throw our bitterness at one another.  … Read full post »

We are so connected by our cell phones and Blackberrys and keyboards;

I wonder if we can live without them. 

I wonder

at the spectacle of three people walking together,

side by side down the sidewalk,

and each of them is… Read full post »

Najibullah was riding a motorbike on a tree-lined village road just outside the bazaar in Pul-e-Sayad when he saw the suicide attacker in a white Toyota Corolla speeding in the opposite direction.  "He was young, bearded man, wearing a white cap," 22-year-old Najibullah said.  "He slowed do/… Read full post »

“The nuclear Club is a closed society,” not so innocent bystander Sum Yung Gurl privately acknowledged, even though North Korea had already joined the club, much to the distress of it’s other official members.  Pyongyang just hadn’t ratified the Non Proliferation Treaty.&… Read full post »

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There are too many dead.  War doesn't solve our conflicts, and killing never brings peace;  but I am moved by a humble need to post something positive and thankful, in an effort to praise and honor our service men and… Read full post »

Furiously now.  No wimping out on flag waving.  This is Memorial Day weekend and people have died for that flag.  They died for their country.  Let’s hear those stars and stripes flapping proudly.  Let’s sing America the Beautiful.   Put your hand… Read full post »

I remember when

the landscape that held my breath

was in your embrace Read full post »

Part 2, when I am proven wrong, again.

We'd heard through the grapevine that no one would be turned away from the ROTA gathering, and when a friend and I showed up mid afternoon, after half the day's venue was concluded, we were told that donations were… Read full post »

I have been hanging out in Sedona, AZ. lately, and I will probably move here.  It is a very special place, with spectacular scenery and equally magnificent and often brilliant people.  I have been a lot of places, and I make friends easily wherever I go; and few places compare… Read full post »

I have seen you

from the inside,

when everything counted.

I have tasted 

the deepest water 

in your well.

It isn't enough.

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you
could be everything
and nothing else mattered
more than this...

What if

there was no other venue

but the one in the room,

who matters more than everything.

What if

there was no evening news

or www… Read full post »

I'd like to know

who you really are

and what you are really like

then

when you are completely alone

and there is no one to impress

but yourself.

when there is… Read full post »