I've decided to start a new party.

I'm in love again.

Everyone's asking why Rand Paul, who won the GOP primary for a U. S. Senate seat in Kentucky last week, didn't give the politically correct answer when asked by Rachel Maddow if he supported drugstore lunch counters being de-segregated by civil rights legislation.

My post, "I Was Completely Off Coke...Then I Had a Pepsi," was an EP in March 2009, and I just found last night when I accidentlly hit "Editors Pick"  on my blog page. Imagine my surprise! Read full post »

The sun sends me messengers of light

While camping out at my favorite hotel, I wrote the first of five classes I'm contracted to write for one of my clients. I had a concept, but my process requires time and I was running out, so I spent sixteen hours in a room on my laptop creating an interactive… Read full post »

"Fairy tales don't tell children dragons exist. Children already know dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children dragons can be killed." G. K. Chesterton

They say that first hit of the crack pipe is the one that hooks you. A thousand orgasms in one puff. No wonder emaciated, jittery zombies wonder through the street willing to do anything, sell anything, rob anyone to get that high. 

All those orgasms must be a heady experience,… Read full post »

I miss the rain today

I received this list as an email Monday with instructions to put an 'x' next to things I've done, copy and paste it into an email, and send it back to the sender and anyone else I'd like to see it. Well, being an OSer, I couldn't resist elaborating on my answers… Read full post »

I wrote a post this week about having all my needs met since I started following stepsratels used by a woman I met here in Toledo to manifest ten cents she desperately needed during the Great Depression. I tell the story in my book and list all the steps she took… Read full post »

I was a member of NOW and volunteered to travel from Wichita, Kansas, to Norman, Oklahoma, to collect signatures for the Equal Rights Amendment.

I promised to write poetry every month

When my best friend died ten years ago I wasn't sure how I'd pay the bills in the big former Victorian we shared. The heating bills were our biggest expenditure. How was I going to make it without her half of the expenses?

We were doing so well! He was being attentive which I absolutely demand, communicating which he absolutely hates to do but has to since he's all the way in Texas. Things were going so well I wrote a song about those incredible tantric massages he gives me and sent him a… Read full post »

From SenseList

September 6, 2006

The Questionnaires of James Lipton, Bernard Pivot, and Marcel Proust:
Fans of Inside the Actor’s Studio are familiar with James Lipton’s list of questions, which he poses to each of his guests at the end of an interview. Lipton always gives credit for this li… Read full post »

On a shopping trip to New York a few years ago, I sat on a bench outside Macy's overwhelmed by sadness. It was my first trip there since 9/11 and I was on one of those overnight bus trips. We stayed at an Embassy suites near Ground Zero and some took… Read full post »

Imagine an endless eternity filled with nothingness. I've seen this hell in the eyes of developmentally disabled people in a sheltered workshop when there's no work for weeks at a time. Some of the adults, who range in age from 22-over 50, color handouts or the pages of coloring books. Seeing… Read full post »

When hometown girl Katie Holmes became a star, folks in Northwest Ohio celebrated like it was 1999! Actually, it was about that time Holmes' star  begin to pulsate.

SEIZE THE STRUGGLE

For Bobbot                                                    … Read full post »

I'm inviting ALL spammers to post their ads here and make sure you leave a tip, $10 per comment. Being in business, you must have an advertising budget. Well, I'm the cheapest you're going to find. At these rates you can afford to post five or six times!

WHO'S ON FIRST?

NOTE: I wrote this 10/27/2007, for my column, Chit-Chat, and thought I'd post it since I'm busy this weekend; just finished writing an online course most of the day and night yesterday and today I'm trying to catch up on mail, bills, and sleep. Hope you enjoy… Read full post »

Last month when we performed Between Two Worlds at Lakota High School in Kansas, Ohio, I was concerned about leaving my purse in our "dressing room," a cafeteria across from the gym where we performed. The outside entrance was a few feet away and the doors were open, so I thought… Read full post »