I noticed a trend with you, Art.

I'm often entertained by your comments.  In a strictly visual way, many of your most recent ones look familiar...you be the judge.  

and others...sure look a lot like:

Is it just me?

All in fun, Art.  Keep up the good… Read full post »

Up until now everything around here has been, well, pleasant. Recently certain things have become unpleasant. Now, it seems to me that the first thing we have to do is to separate out the things that are pleasant from the things that are unpleasant.--Big Bob 

Here’s to Hollywood, the indu… Read full post »

Mississippi is being pounded pretty hard by Mother Nature lately.

One morning I wake to see on Google News a video of a tornado very near where my oldest daughter lives.

A couple of days later, Smithville, the home of a good friend from high school, was practically wiped… Read full post »

“How can you have morals if you don’t have anything to base them on?”

If a stranger had asked me this question, it wouldn’t have surprised me so, and I doubt I would have given it much thought later.  But it was my own sister asking me this question. … Read full post »

"I've been wrong, but I've been changing...I've been wondering what to do..."

Whenever I listen too closely to the words of a song, I find my mind running away from me.  This morning's musings were complicated.  Only if it wouldn't result in me not having my kids...what would I tell the… Read full post »

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Be a dear and don't flog me for making you cry, nor for what I'm about to say.   I do commend her bravery, really.   But for goodness sake, if you live in a trailer and… Read full post »

 I took a moment today to look more closely at the "weeds" in my yard.  They are really lovely.  I know what a few of them are, but if there are any botany buffs out there who can tell me for sure, I'd appreciate it.

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There are not so many fond memories from my childhood, nor are there from my early adulthood.  I was not a pretty child, not blessed with a lovely voice or lucky enough to have the popular fashions, and I did not grow into beauty, so many of my remembrances are more… Read full post »

There are a million reasons I am not a “believer.”  I remain open to the possibility that there is some sort of god, if not the big-G variety, and I also think it would be awfully arrogant of me to think that a human being is the tippy-top of… Read full post »

No, really, I was reading one of Tinkertink's latest blogs, which refers to and responds to a lovely piece of spam he received, and it occurred to me that sometimes that stuff could be really entertaining.  Would you like to enlarge your penis?  Why, sure, because right now it's s… Read full post »

I just love it when someone says that it is just the "well-to-do,white, stay-at-home mothers" who are now "going natural" and doing such crazy things as breastfeeding, cloth diapering, and such.  I'm guessing that they are the most vocal about it; they do, after all, have more at-… Read full post »

Isn't she cute?  Emma Kathleen is 12 days old and belches like a man.

 And the real miracle is that she shares at least some of her genes with me!  Read full post »

Some time ago, another blogger on Open Salon posted a piece detailing her rape. Elena had only recently received gender reassignment surgery, and it seemed that some monster took advantage of her while she was unconscious, during one of her latest procedures. I read that piece. I always marvel at her… Read full post »

Two years ago people from numerous organizations tried to visit Congressman Vern Buchanan's Sarasota office to express to him why many Americans wanted us out of Iraq.  Only one office staffer would listen.  I can't post the video due to format, but it's worth checking out:

http://www.veoh.… Read full post »

She has arrived.  My world has been plopped on its head.  I'm a grandma!  Read full post »

My daughter Holly is 40 weeks+ pregnant.  That's a whole lot of baby in a tiny little space.  She has had a remarkably smooth pregnancy so far; one of her biggest complaints is that after making it through her teenage years with no more than 5 pimples, she now has some… Read full post »

I do love Florida wildlife.  I moved here and immediately felt wonder at the variety of plants, birds, and of course sea life.  We combed the beaches for seashells and shark’s teeth, we nervously observe the alligators, and we eagerly watch the ibis and the egrets shuffling through ou… Read full post »

Friday afternoon musings, to the tune of Lee Greenwood’s “Proud to Be an American”…

(1st verse, from a diabetic)

Looks like all the precious things are gone,

That I’ve worked for all my life,

And I wish that I could start again,

And… Read full post »

 You cannot help the poor by helping the rich.  (And they really don't need the help.)

You cannot weaken the truly strong by strengthening the weak.

You cannot "thrift" your way out of destitution.

You cannot lift the wage earner up by giving his boss less… Read full post »

She's due to arrive in 2 weeks.  I know they rarely arrive on time, but even if she's a week or two late, it seems like too soon.  Too soon for her mom to be a mom...19 is still such a babe.  Too soon for me to be a gramma...41 is… Read full post »