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  This has been a rough week in NC.  Our former state senate candidate for president is on trial for using campaign funds to pay for his mistress's expenses while on the campaign trail with her.  His wife was back home dying of cancer, you see, and he needed Reillle/
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The trouble with people is that even among peaceful groups, we struggle.

Locally, there are two painting groups, each doing their thing separately.  If you ask one group, the larger one that I had joined by chance, about the smaller group, you get very cryptic answers indicating they know nothin… Read full post »

let's make some art for mom!

5/7/5 is the traditional syllable format.

A reference to nature is customary but not necessary for American Haiku.

Rhyming is not necessary.  Blank verse is cool but not haiku.  Other syllable arrangements are fine, though, so a short three line poem will count.… Read full post »

 I have not been very present on OS for  long time.  I posted one haiga a day for a year and decided to take a break after finishing that commitment to my audience here and to myself.    I take writing seriously, art very seriously, and community so seriously that I… Read full post »

The lady who runs the art department where I teach kids in in the afternoon put a sign on the bathroom in the classroom, "Clay CLub,  Please use the bathroom in the hall.  -Thanks!"   It made me feel really bad.  I kept thinking of how bad the kids must… Read full post »

The Modern Question:  What should we dine on?  In three bite size pieces. 

Part I:  Dogs

It's still the potatoes that haunt my ethical thoughts, but lets begin with faster moving, more doe-eyed living things that some people still eat, dogs.

I ha… Read full post »

The "legitimization" of all marriage and all people will be the sign I am looking for to know that we have finally grown up as a culture.

"So...let me get this STRAIGHT....Kelsey Grammer can end a 15yr marriage by phone, Larry King is on divorce #9, Britney Spears had a… Read full post »

I have finally diciphered the Bachmann enigma.  She has no intention of being president, she is running for Vice President.  

Everyone knows that she would not make the cut for the nominee for the GOP.  BUT they would love to have another woman on the ticket.  

Romney may just… Read full post »

The Bush tax cuts are 10 years in. Can we agree that they did not have the intended consequence and face reality?

Basic economics says that you have to pay for the resources you use to make money.

Here is a logic stream to illustrate:

• Business in America costs money
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Perhaps part of the answer to health care is for the people serving in congress to be the last in inverse seniority order to get health care.

Until every child in America doesn't has to be disfigured or toothless because of poverty or inadequate parents, not one person serving… Read full post »

She may have inherited her acting talent and smarts from her father, but the girl got her looks from her mom.

People are freaking out because there was no Mickey break, the time when young girls go underground and grow breasts and long hair and learn to wear less clothing… Read full post »

A friend of mine made this in reaction to the college

hate crime that resulted in the kid killing himself.

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The Modern Question:  What should we dine on?  In three bite size pieces. 

Part I:  Dogs

It's still the potatoes that haunt my ethical thoughts, but lets begin with faster moving, more doe-eyed living things that some people still eat, dogs.

I ha… Read full post »